CSS Tennessee
For similarly named ships, the southern U.S. state of Tennessee, and other uses, see
Tennessee (disambiguation)
.
Three ships in the
Confederate States Navy
were named
CSS
Tennessee
CSS
Tennessee
(1861)
was a steamship, built in 1853 and seized by the Confederate States in 1861; she was recaptured by the Union in the
Battle of New Orleans
and commissioned into the
United States Navy
as
USS
Tennessee
(1853)
; she was later renamed USS
Mobile
when the ironclad
CSS
Tennessee
(1863)
was captured in 1864
CSS
Tennessee
(1862)
[
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]
was burned at the stocks prior to completion
CSS
Tennessee
(1863)
was an
ironclad
launched in 1863, commissioned in 1864 and was captured at the
Battle of Mobile Bay
, and renamed
USS
Tennessee
(1863)