8" rifle, and two 6.4" rifles. The Virginia II was named after the more famous Confederate ironclad, CSS Virginia, also called the Merrimack because of...

ironclad CSS Virginia II, but ran into a hawser and then ran aground. At 07:10 on the morning of January 24, Union fire struck the abandoned tender CSS Drewry...

Cutter Service CSS Virginia was the first Confederate States Navy ironclad, built using the hull of the captured USS Merrimack CSS Virginia II, an ironclad...

writers, months before the actual CSS Virginia II was ever laid down. The ironclad was thus finished at Richmond, Virginia, in July 1862 and placed in commission...

The CSS Beaufort (/ˈbjuːfərt/ BEW-fert) was an iron-hull gunboat that served in North Carolina and Virginia during the American Civil War. Originally...

ship that CSS Virginia was built upon CSS Virginia II, an ironclad ram. USRC Virginia for ships of the US Revenue Cutter Service USS Virginian USS West...

Virginia) CSS Virginia (II) CSS Virginia CSS Jamestown CSS Patrick Henry CSS Teaser CSS Beaufort CSS Raleigh CSS Hampton CSS Nansemond CSS Virginia II...

CSS Columbia was an ironclad steamer ram in the Confederate States Navy and later in the United States Navy. Columbia was built at Charleston, South Carolina...

armored with four inches of railroad iron, similar to the armor used on CSS Virginia II. There were two shuttered gun ports on each of her four casemate sides...

ironclad ram, destroyed: May 11, 1862 CSS Virginia II, steam sloop, ironclad, destroyed: April 4, 1865 CSS Wilmington, twin-screw steamer, ironclad gunboat...

CSS Charleston was a casemate ironclad ram built for the Confederate Navy (CSN) at Charleston, South Carolina during the American Civil War. Funded by...

destroyer sunk during the Battle of Jutland USS Varuna CSS Virginia CSS Virginia II Virginia Navy Fleet sunk by Benedict Arnold during the American Revolutionary...

CSS Shenandoah, formerly Sea King and later El Majidi, was an iron-framed, teak-planked, full-rigged sailing ship with auxiliary steam power chiefly known...

double-banded 8 in (203 mm) rifles in April and May 1864. One was mounted in CSS Virginia II while another was sent to the batteries defending the James River....

escaped through Dismal Swamp Canal to Norfolk, Virginia. On March 8–9, 1862, Raleigh was tender to CSS Virginia during the historic Battle of Hampton Roads...

Richmond, Virginia II, Hampton, Drewry, Nansemond, the gunboats CSS Torpedo and CSS Beaufort, and the torpedo boats CSS Hornet, CSS Wasp, and CSS Scorpion...

CSS Muscogee was an casemate ironclad built in Columbus, Georgia for the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. Her original paddle configuration...

by the Confederates as they evacuated Richmond, Virginia on April 3, 1865. The commanders of the CSS Hampton were: Lieutenant George W. Harrison (as of...

CSS Chickamauga, originally the blockade runner Edith, was purchased by the Confederate States Navy at Wilmington, North Carolina, in September 1864....

Four vessels of the class – CSS Hornet, CSS Wasp, CSS Squib, and CSS Scorpion – were constructed in Richmond, Virginia, in 1864. All were armed with...

John Mercer Brooke Franklin Buchanan (commanded the ironclads CSS Virginia II and CSS Tennessee) French Forrest Catesby ap Roger Jones Sydney Smith Lee...

designer, CSS Texas belonged to an 1863/64 class of three ironclads, with CSS Tennessee (1863) (also referred to as the CSS Tennessee II) and CSS Columbia...

CSS Patrick Henry was a ship built in New York City in 1859 by the renowned William H. Webb for the Old Dominion Steam Ship Line as the civilian steamer...

CSS Richmond and CSS Virginia II also participated in the attack. Richmond weighed an estimated 800 tons and carried six guns. The 650 ton Virginia II...

Constructor, John L. Porter, based on his earlier work on the ironclad CSS Virginia, retaining the traditional curving ship-type hull, but with flat ends...

CSS Chicora was a Confederate ironclad ram that fought in the American Civil War. It was built under contract at Charleston, South Carolina in 1862. James...

CSS Drewry was a gunboat of the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. This wooden gunboat had a foredeck protected by an iron V-shaped...

McClellan's drive up the peninsula toward Richmond; and blowing up CSS Virginia II should that ironclad be completed on time and sent downstream to attack...

Republic was a sidewheel steamship, originally named SS Tennessee (also named CSS Tennessee, USS Tennessee, and USS Mobile for a time), lost in a hurricane...

from the states of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia,: 226–290  were brought from the parole camp to Sultana, a mechanic was...