&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:CSS_Atlanta.jpg) A sepia wash drawing of CSS Atlanta by R.G. Skerrett
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | Fingal |
| Namesake | Fingal |
| Owner | Hutcheson's West Highland Service |
| Builder | J&G Thomson's Clyde Bank Iron Shipyard, Govan, Glasgow |
| Launched | 9 May 1861 |
| Fate | Sold to the Confederacy, 1861 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tons burthen | About 700 tons (bm) |
| Length | 189 ft (57.6 m) |
| Beam | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
| Draft | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
| Depth of hold | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
| Installed power | 1 Tubular boiler |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
 Confederate States | |
 United States | |
| Name | CSS/USS Atlanta |
| Namesake | Atlanta |
| Builder | Asa and Nelson Tift, Savannah, Georgia |
| Acquired | September 1861 |
| Commissioned | 22 November 1862 |
| Decommissioned | 21 June 1865 |
| Captured | 17 June 1863, transferred to US Navy in February 1864 |
| Fate | Sold to Haiti, 4 May 1869. Lost at sea, December 1869 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Casemate ironclad |
| Displacement | 1,006 long tons (1,022 t) |
| Length | 204 ft (62.2 m) |
| Beam | 41 ft (12.5 m) |
| Draft | 15 ft 9 in (4.8 m) |
| Depth of hold | 17 ft (5.2 m) |
| Speed | 7–10 knots (13–19 km/h; 8.1–11.5 mph) |
| Complement | 145 officers and men |
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Atlanta was a casemate ironclad that served in the Confederate and Union Navies during the American Civil War. She was converted from a British-built blockade runner named Fingal by the Confederacy after she made one run to Savannah, Georgia. After several failed attempts to attack Union blockaders, the ship was captured by two Union monitors in 1863 when she ran aground. Atlanta was floated off, repaired, and rearmed, serving in the Union Navy for the rest of the war. She spent most of her time deployed on the James River supporting Union forces there. The ship was decommissioned in 1865 and placed in reserve. Several years after the end of the war, Atlanta was sold to Haiti, but was lost at sea in December 1869 on her delivery voyage.