Description
Shipwreck Artifacts for Sale
- Confederate Shipwreck
- Coal Fuel
- Salvaged from the wreck of the CSS Nashville Confederate Navy Warship
- This incredible specimen is a small piece of coal that was recovered during salvage operations. The small specimen is housed in a 1.25″ gem jar and is nicely displayed within a Mat with a Label. The whole display comes in a 4.25″ x 5.25″ Riker Mount as shown. These pieces of coal discovered on the wreck were used to power the ships massive side wheel. The steam engines turned the massive side wheel making her one of the deadliest ships of the age.
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WHICH CSS NASHVILLE?
Two ships in the Confederate Navy were named CSS Nashville in honor of Nashville, Tennessee. CSS Nashville (1861) was a steamer, seized in 1861.
CSS Nashville (1853)
THE HISTORY OF CSS NASHVILLE (1853)
The CSS Nashville was a 1221-ton side-wheel steamer. It was originally a passenger steamer built at Greenpoint, New York, in 1853. She was seized by the Confederacy at Charleston, South Carolina, in 1861 and converted to a lightly-armed cruiser. Nashville made one combat cruise under the Confederate Navy flag, starting in October 1861. The ship captured and burned the sailing merchantman Harvey Birch in the English Channel on November 19th. Returning to American waters early in 1862, she captured and burned the schooner Robert Gilfillan on 26 February. Two days later, she ran the blockade into Beaufort, North Carolina, remaining there until mid-March, when she went to Georgetown, South Carolina.
Sold to private interests and renamed Thomas L. Wragg, she operated as a blockade runner. However, she was hindered in this employment by her deep draft. After arrival near Savannah, Georgia, she was sold again in November 1862, to become a privateer under the name Rattlesnake. On 28 February 1863, while still in the Savannah area, she was destroyed by the monitor USS Montauk.
