CSS Columbia
{{other ships|USS Columbia}}
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CSS Columbia was an ironclad steamer ram in the Confederate States Navy and later in the United States Navy.
As CSS ''Columbia''
Columbia was built at Charleston, South Carolina in 1864 to a design by John L. Porter. She was launched in March 1864 and entered service later in that year. When the Union forces took possession of Charleston on 18 February 1865, they found Columbia near Fort Moultrie; she had run on a sunken wreck and been damaged on 12 January 1865. The ironclad already had her cannon and some armor plating removed; ship-worms were already at work boring into her wooden hull.
As USS ''Columbia''
She was raised on 26 April and was towed by {{USS|Vanderbilt}} to Hampton Roads, Virginia, where she arrived on 25 May 1865. Columbia was drydocked on 5 June and repairs were begun, but on 15 June, she was decommissioned and placed in ordinary. Her hulk was later sold for scrapping on 10 October 1867.
References
- {{cite book |last1=Bisbee |first1=Saxon T. |title=Engines of Rebellion: Confederate Ironclads and Steam Engineering in the American Civil War |publisher=University of Alabama Press |location=Tuscaloosa, Alabama |isbn=978-0-81731-986-1|date=2018}}
- {{cite book |last1=Canney |first1=Donald L. |title=The Confederate Steam Navy 1861-1865 |date=2015 |publisher=Schiffer Publishing|location=Atglen, Pennsylvania |isbn=978-0-7643-4824-2}}
- {{cite book|last=Canney|first=Donald L.|title=The Old Steam Navy |publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, Maryland|date=1993|volume=2: The Ironclads, 1842–1885 |isbn=0-87021-586-8}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Koehler |first1=R. B.|last2=Sileo|first2=Thomas |title=Question 40/43: Fates of Confederate Ironclads |journal=Warship International |date=2008 |volume=XLV |issue=4 |pages=276–277 |issn=0043-0374|name-list-style=amp}}
- {{cite book|last=Silverstone|first=Paul H.|title=Civil War Navies 1855–1883 |publisher=Routledge |location=New York|year=2006|series=The U.S. Navy Warship Series|isbn=0-415-97870-X}}
- {{cite book|last=Silverstone|first=Paul H.|title=Directory of the World's Capital Ships |year=1984 |publisher=Hippocrene Books|location=New York|isbn=0-88254-979-0}}
- {{cite book|last=Still|first=William N. Jr.|title=Iron Afloat: The Story of the Confederate Armorclads|isbn=0-87249-454-3|orig-year=1971|year=1985|publisher=University of South Carolina Press|location=Columbia, South Carolina}}
- {{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/cfa2/columbia.htm Confederate service|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/c11/columbia-iii.htm Union service}}
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Category:Ironclad warships of the Confederate States Navy
Category:Ships built in Charleston, South Carolina
Category:Shipwrecks of the American Civil War