CSS Nashville
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Two ships in the Confederate Navy were named CSS Nashville in honor of Nashville, Tennessee.
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- CSS Nashville (1861)CSS Nashville (1861)Originally a United States Mail Service ship, the USMS Nashville, was a brig-rigged, side-paddle-wheel passenger steamer built at Greenpoint, Brooklyn in 1853. Between 1853 and 1861 she was engaged in running between New York City and Charleston, South Carolina...
was a steamer, seized in 1861. She was a blockade runner, renamed Thomas L. Wragg and later commissioned as the privateer Rattlesnake and destroyed in 1863 - CSS Nashville (1864)CSS Nashville (1864)CSS Nashville was a large side-wheel steam ironclad built by the Confederates at Montgomery, Alabama intended to exploit the availability of riverboat engines. Launched in mid-1863, Nashville was taken to Mobile, Alabama for completion in 1864. Part of her armor came from the...
was a large side-wheel steam ironclad built in 1863
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