CSS Albemarle
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Albemarle and HMS Albemarle.
CSS Albemarle was a steam-powered casemate ironclad ram of the Confederate Navy (and later the second Albemarle of the United States Navy), named for an estuary in North Carolina which was named for General George Monck, the first Duke of Albemarle and one of the original Carolina Lords Proprietor.
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A drawing of Albemarle | |
History | |
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Confederate States | |
Name | Albemarle |
Namesake | Albemarle Sound |
Ordered | 16 April 1862 |
Laid down | January 1863 |
Commissioned | 17 April 1864 |
Fate | 27 October 1864 sunk by spar torpedo, captured, raised, and sold |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 376 tons |
Length | 158 ft (48 m) |
Beam | 35.4 ft (10.8 m) |
Draught | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
Propulsion | Steam |
Speed | 4 knots (7.4 km/h; 4.6 mph) |
Range | 120 miles, 193 km |
Complement | 150 officers and men |
Armament | two 6.4 Brooke double-banded rifles |
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