by Charles Landrum
Member since 10-Dec-2004
Build Type: Kit
Country: Confederate States
Era: 1815-1914→ 1861-1865
Length Range: 125-200 feet (38-61m)
Model Material: Resin
Model Type: Static
Propulsion Type:
- Fuel→ Coal
- Impeller→ Propeller
- Engine→ Reciprocating Steam
Subject Type: Vessel→ Naval and Privateer→ Wooden Navy→ Gunboats
About the Vessel
CSS Atlanta was converted from the British merchant Fingal. Captured by the monitors USS Weehawken and USS Nahant in Wassaw Sound, Georgia, on 17 June 1863, it spent the rest of the war in the United States Navy as part of the James River Flotilla.
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