Specifications:
Displacement unknown
Length 152'
Beam 45'
Depth of Hold unknown
Draft 8'
Speed unknown
Complement unknown
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85k | General plan of CSS Albemarle which appears to be a copy of a Civil War era drawing. The original is plan # 3-5-27 in Record
Group 19 at the U.S. National Archives. US National Achieves Record Group 18, US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 76384 |
Robert Hurst | |
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78k | CSS Albemarle Plan Sketch from an 1888 Century Company New York Publication | Tommy Trampp | |
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239k | CSS Albemarle under construction at Edward's Ferry, North Carolina on the Roanoke River. Numerous Confederate ironclads were constructed in primitive makeshift shipyards such as the one at Edward's Ferry. Albemarle was armed with two pivot-mounted 6.4-inch rifles and her casemate protected by two layers of two-inch-thick iron plates. Image courtesy US Naval Institute Archive |
Tommy Trampp | |
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96k | CSS Albemarle under construction, is mis-identified as CSS Lady Davis in
"The Photographic History of The Civil War in Ten Volumes: Volume Six, The Navies". The Review of Reviews Co., New York. 1911. p. 87. Author unknown. |
Robert Hurst | |
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90k | 19th Century photographic reproduction of an artwork of CSS Albemarle under way. US Naval History and Heritage Command Photo # NH 57270 |
Robert Hurst | |
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89k | Sepia wash drawing of CSS Albemarle by R. G. Skerrett, 1899. US Naval History and Heritage Command Photo # NH 57815 |
Robert Hurst | |
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87k | 19th Century engraving of CSS Albemarle as she appeared "ready for action". US Naval History and Heritage Command Photo # NH 57266 |
Robert Hurst | |
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265k | CSS Albemarle rams and sinks the Union gunboat USS Southfield at Plymouth, N.C., 19 April 1864.
Photo caption dates this action as 18 April while other sources date the action as 19 April. Image is from p. 650 of the 1887 book Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers, based upon “the Century War Series"', volume 4. |
Robert Hurst | |
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138k | Engraving entitled "The Rebel Ram Attacking Federal Gun-Boats at Plymouth, North Carolina" published in "Harper's Weekly", May 1864,
depicting CSS Albemarle driving off USS Miami, after ramming and sinking
USS Southfield (foreground), 19 April 1864. US Naval History and Heritage Command Photo # NH 59161 |
Robert Hurst | |
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143k | "Wood versus iron" 19th Century photograph of an artwork by Acting Second Engineer Alexander C. Stuart, USN, 1864. It shows CSS Albemarle engaging several Federal gunboats on Albemarle Sound, North Carolina, 5 May 1864. USS Sassacus is in left center, ramming the Confederate ironclad. Other U.S. Navy ships seen are (from left): USS Commodore Hull, USS Wyalusing and USS Mattabesett. The Confederate transport CSS Bombshell, captured during the action, is in the right background. Albemarle was not significantly damaged during this action, which left Sassacus disabled by a hit in one of her boilers. US Naval History and Heritage Command Photo # NH 1673. From the collection of Surgeon H.P. Babcock, presented by George R. Babcock, 1938. | Robert Hurst | |
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71k | Battle between USS Sassacus and CSS Albemarle, May 1864. Copy of painting. ,1883 - 1966. Image from Still Picture Records LICON, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S). National Archives ARC Identifier: 513022 |
Robert Hurst | |
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295k | An illustration of LT. William Barker Cushing and his crew of 14 in their steam launch making their daring nighttime raid on CSS Albemarle, 27 October 1864.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (vol. 2) (New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, 1912), Benson John Lossing, ed |
Tommy Trampp | |
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110k | LT. Cushing and his crew in their steam launch carrying a spar torpedo take aim on the doomed CSS Albemarle on the Roanoke River, N.C., 27 October 1864. | Tommy Trampp | |
098649320 |
295k | LT. Cushing and his crew aim their steam launch with the torpedo they were carrying towards CSS Albemarle on the
Roanoke River, N.C., 27 October 1864.
A rare woodcut print from from a HARPER's WEEKLY published in 1864. |
Tommy Trampp | |
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211k | 1878 magazine engraving ~ :DESTRUCTION OF "ALBEMARLE" ~ Lt W.B. CUSHING, U.S.N." CSS Albemarle being attacked with a torpedo and sunk by LT. W. B. Cushing, USN, with a crew of 14. CSS Albemarle was undergoing repairs on the Roanoke River at the time, 27-28 October 1864. | Tommy Trampp | |
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202k | Artwork entitled "Cushing's Daring and Successful Exploit" by Bacon, published in "Deeds of Valor", Volume II, page 74, by the Perrien-Keydel
Company, Detroit, 1907. It depicts the attack on CSS Albemarle by a torpedo launch commanded by Lieutenant William B. Cushing, USN, at Plymouth, North
Carolina, 27 October 1864. The torpedo boat is shown crashing over Albemarle's protective log boom to deliver its torpedo against the ironclad's hull.
US Naval History and Heritage Command Photo # NH 79932 |
Robert Hurst | |
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178k | LT. Cushing and his crew abandon their steam launch as the torpedo they were carrying explodes against CSS Albemarle on the
Roanoke River, N.C., 27 October 1864.
Naval Battles ancient and modern, by Edward Shippen (1826-1911), Pub. by J.C. McCurdy & Co., Philadelphia, 1883. |
Robert Hurst | |
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185k | CSS Albemarle torpedoed and sunk by Lieutenant William B. Cushing's torpedo launch, at Plymouth, North Carolina, 27 October
1864. Phototype published by F. Gutekunst, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, circa the later 19th Century. Print from the Skerrett Collection, Bethlehem Steel Company Archives.
US Naval History and Heritage Command Photo # NH 57267 |
Robert Hurst | |
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112k | CSS Albemarle sunk off Plymouth, North Carolina, circa 1865. She had been sunk on 27-28 October 1864 by a torpedo boat. One
section of her armored casemate has been displaced. Photographed by W.B. Rose for A.J. Smith of New Berne, NC. Taken from the wharf at Plymouth, with the swamp and woods
opposite the town in the background. Courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
US Naval History and Heritage Command Photo # NH 58773 |
Robert Hurst | |
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82k | CSS Albemarle at Norfolk Navy Yard after salvage, circa 1865. Two ladies are standing on her deck, near a section of
displaced casemate armor. US Naval History and Heritage Command Photo # NH 63375, Courtesy of Mr. J.C. Hanscom. |
Robert Hurst | |
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112k | A halftone reproduction of a photograph of CSS Albemarle taken after the ship was salvaged, 1865. US Naval History and Heritage Command Photo # NH 57265, donation of Rear Admiral Ammen C. Farenholt, 1938. |
Robert Hurst | |
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177k | CSS Albemarle tied up along with other ships at Norfolk Navy Yard, circa 1865-67. Image from "The Photographic History of The Civil War in Ten Volumes: Volume Six, The Navies". The Review of Reviews Co., New York. 1911. p. 87. |
Robert Hurst | |
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31k | Drawing of Albemarle after being purchased by US Navy and repaired. | US Naval History and Heritage Command | |
CSS Albemarle / Albemarle II
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)
| Commanding Officers | ||
| 01 | CDR. Cooke, James Wallace, CSN | 10 April 1864 - 17 June 1864 |
| 02 | CDR. Maffitt, John Newland, CSN | 17 June 1864 - September 1864 |
| 03 | 1st. LT. Warley, Alexander3 F., CSN | September 1864 - 27 October 1864 |
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