CSS Raleigh (1864)

CSS Raleigh (1864)

:"For other ships named "Raleigh", see ""CSS "Raleigh"."

CSS "Raleigh", a steam sloop, was constructed by the Confederate States Navy at Wilmington, North Carolina in 1863-64, with Lieutenant John Wilkinson, CSN, commanding. She was reported in commission on April 30, 1864 under the command of Lieutenant J. Pembroke Jones, CSN.

Built to Constructor John L. Porter's plans, similar to those of CSS "North Carolina", she had been laid down and launched at the foot of Church Street, completed at the shipyard of J. L. Cassidy & Sons.

On May 6, she emerged from Cape Fear River accompanied by CSS "Yadkin" and CSS "Equator" and inconclusively engaged six Federal blockaders, including the USS "Britannia" and the USS "Nansemond", off New Inlet, North Carolina. When the six reappeared the following day, "Raleigh" hastily withdrew up river, struck Wilmington Bar and "broke her back." Her iron plating was salvaged.

In 1994 the wreck was investigated by the North Carolina State Underwater Archaeology Unit with help from students of East Carolina University.


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