CSS Nashville (1853)

CSS Nashville
History
Confederate States
Name	Nashville
Builder	William Collyer (Greenpoint, NY)
Launched	22 Sep 1853
Christened	SS Nashville
Commissioned	(CSN): Oct 1861–Mar 1862
Maiden voyage	4 Jan 1854
In service	4 Jan 1854–28 Feb 1863
Renamed	CSS Nashville (1861) SS Thomas L. Wragg (1862) SS Rattlesnake (1862)
Fate	Sunk by USN, 28 February 1863
General characteristics
Displacement	1,221 long tons (1,241 t)
Length	215 ft 6 in (65.68 m)
Beam	34 ft 6 in (10.52 m)
Draft	21 ft 9 in (6.63 m)
Propulsion	Sails and steam engine
Complement	40 officers and men
Armament	2 × 12-pounder (5 kg) cannons

CSS Nashville was a brig-rigged, side-paddle-wheel passenger steamer that served with the Confederate Navy during the Civil War.