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CSS Raleigh |
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Commander: Lt. J. W. Alexander |
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Original name: Loper |
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Tonnage: 106 90/95 tons |
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Rig: Tugboat; iron hull screw
steamer |
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Dimensions: 91 5/10’ x 17 4/10’
x 7 2/10’ |
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Built By: Merrick & Town |
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Location/Year:
Philadelphia, PA, 1845
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Description: 1
deck, 2 masts, round stern, no figurehead
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Commissioned: 22 July 1861 |
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Armament: 1 – 32 pdr. |
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Service Record· Originally part of the North Carolina Navy; sold to the Confederacy · Defended Forts Hatteras and Clark, Hatteras, NC, 28-29 August 1861 · Captured USS Fanny at Loggerhead Inlet, NC, 1 October 1861· Defended Roanoke Island, NC, 7-8 February 1862 · Tender to CSS Virginia at Hampton Roads, VA, 7 March – 11 April 1862 · Renamed CSS Roanoke in 1863 · Action at Trent’s Reach, VA, 21 June 1864 · Sank in James River at Drewry’s Bluff, VA, 3 April 1865 |
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The CSS Raleigh participated in
the battle of Roanoke Island on 7-8 Feb 1862, sustaining damage to her
ironwork. Flag Officer Lynch dispatched her to Gosport Navy Yard on 9
February 1862 to locate ammunition for the squadron. She was in Norfolk
awaiting ammunition for the “mosquito fleet” during the battle of Elizabeth
City, thus avoiding the destruction that befell most of the North Carolina
Squadron. |
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