Ship's engines and lower portion of the after hull, photographed following recovery in the vicinity of Columbus, Georgia, circa the early or middle 1960s | |
History | |
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Confederate States | |
Name | Chattahoochee |
Laid down | Saffold, Georgia |
In service | February 1863 |
Fate | Scuttled 17 April 1865, stern raised and put on display in 1963 |
General characteristics | |
Length | 150 ft (46 m) |
Beam | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
Draft | 8 ft (2.4 m) |
Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Complement | 120 officers and crew |
Armament | 4 32-pounder smoothbore cannon, a 32-pounder rifled cannon and a 9-inch smoothbore cannon |
CSS Muscogee and Chattahoochee | |
NRHP reference No. | 70000212[1] |
Added to NRHP | May 13, 1970 |
CSS Chattahoochee was a twin-screw steam powered gunboat built at Saffold, Georgia; she was christened for the river upon which she was built. The gunboat entered Confederate States Navy service in February 1863.