USS Atlanta (1861)
CSS Atlanta |
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| Career | |
|---|---|
| Name: | CSS/USS Atlanta |
| Namesake: | Atlanta |
| Builder: | James and George Thomas, Glasgow |
| Launched: | 9 May 1861 |
| Acquired: | September 1861 as Fingal |
| 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) |
| Propulsion: | 1 shaft, steam engine, 1 boiler |
| Speed: | 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement: | 145 officers and men |
| Armament: | 2 × 7-inch (178 mm) Brooke rifles 2 × 6.4-inch (163 mm) Brooke rifles |
| Armor: | Casemate: 4 in (102 mm) Hull: 2 in (51 mm) |
The first Atlanta was a casemate southern ironclad, a screw steamer converted from a Scottish-built blockade runner named Fingal that served in the Confederate Navy. The vessel was designed and built as a merchantman in Glasgow, Scotland by James and George Thompson at the Clyde Bank Iron Shipyard and was completed as the Fingal early in 1861. Before the American Civil War broke out she briefly operated between Glasgow and other ports in Scotland for Hutcheson's West Highland Service. She was later purchased by the Confederate government for running the Union blockade, making her last run to Savannah before her conversion to a warship. She was later captured in battle and then served in the Union Navy for the duration of the Civil War.
Read more about USS Atlanta (1861): As Fingal, As Atlanta, In The United States Navy