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CSS Neuse


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Albemarle class Iron-clad Ram:
  • CSS Neuse was a steam sloop laid down in 1862 for the Confederate Navy by Howard and Ellis at Whitehall and Kinston, N.C., on the Neuse River
  • Launched in November 1863
  • Delivered and Commissioned CSS Neuse in April 1864
  • Neuse sailed in April 1864 for duty on the inland waters of North Carolina as part of the force under CDR. R. F. Pinkney, CSN
  • Neuse never left the river she grounded off Kinston and remained fast for almost a month, refloated in May
  • Burned in March 1865 by the Confederates to escape capture by the Union army under Major General John M. Schofield, USA
  • Current Disposition, the hulk was raised in 1963; approximately 15,000 shipboard artifacts were recovered and carefully cataloged . Neuse's hull was then temporarily installed in the Governor Caswell Memorial, beside the river, in Kinston. Since 2013, Neuse and her artifacts have been on display in a new, climate-controlled building in downtown Kinston.
    Specifications:
    Displacement unknown
    Length 152'
    Beam 34'
    Draft 9'
    Depth of Hold unknown
    Speed unknown
    Complement unknown
    Armament two 6.4" (160 mm) Brooke rifles
    Propulsion steam

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    Neuse
    098684203
    32k The construction of CSS Neuse began at Whitehall on the Neuse River. Following an attack by Union troops in December 1862, construction was relocated downriver to Kinston.
    Image courtesy of CSS Neuse State Historic Site, Kinston, NC., Photo by Oydman (Wikipedia)
    Robert Hurst
    Neuse
    098684204
    24k The final mission for the crew of CSS Neuse was to cover the Confederate retreat from Kinston by shelling advancing Union forces.
    Image courtesy of CSS Neuse State Historic Site, Kinston, NC.
    Robert Hurst
    Neuse
    098684205
    19k The salvaged remnants of the hull of the CSS Neuse at the CSS Neuse State Historic Site and Governor Richard Caswell Memorial.
    Image courtesy of CSS Neuse State Historic Site, Kinston, NC.
    Robert Hurst
    Neuse
    098684201
    341k Replica of CSS Neuse 2003
    Photo by Oydman (Wikipedia)
    Robert Hurst
    Neuse
    098684202
    218k CSS Neuse lay on the bottom of the Neuse River for nearly 100 years. Here her hull has been raised and is being restored for public display at the Governor Richard Caswell Memorial Site, Kinston North Carolina, 1969.
    US Navy photo # NH 68955
    US Naval History and Heritage Command

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