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Coordinates: 36°17′07″N 76°10′30″W / 36.285242°N 76.175079°W / 36.285242; -76.175079
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Destruction of Commodore Lynch's fleet
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| Name | CSS Sea Bird |
| Owner | E. H. Delk |
| Builder | Benjamin Terry |
| Launched | 1854 at Keyport, New Jersey |
| Commissioned | 1861 |
| Homeport | Norfolk, Virginia |
| Fate | Rammed and sunk by USS Commodore Perry February 10, 1862 |
| General characteristics |
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| Displacement | 202 tons |
| Length | 133 ft (41 m) |
| Beam | 21 ft (6.4 m) |
| Depth of hold | 7 ft (2.1 m) |
| Decks | 1 deck |
| Installed power | 1 low pressure 30" x 84" vertical-beam engine built by Birkbeck, Furnam & Co., NY |
| Propulsion | Side wheels. |
| Complement | 42 officers and men |
| Armament | 1 32-pounder smoothbore cannon, 1 30-pounder rifled cannon |
| Notes | No mast, round tuck, no figurehead (Information from enrollment #78; December 26, 1860). |
The Command flag of Captain Lynch, flown from the CSS Sea Bird
CSS Sea Bird was a sidewheel steamer in the Confederate States Navy.
Sea Bird was built at Keyport, New Jersey in 1854, was purchased by North CarolinaatNorfolk, Virginia in 1861 and fitted for service with the Confederate States Navy. She was assigned to duty along the Virginia and North Carolina coasts with Lieutenant Patrick McCarrick, CSN, in command. Sea Bird served as the flagship of Confederate Flag Officer William F. Lynch's "Mosquito Fleet" during the hard-fought battles in defense of Roanoke Island on February 7–8, 1862, and Elizabeth City, North Carolina, on February 10 when she was rammed and sunk by USS Commodore Perry. Her casualties were two killed, four wounded, and the rest captured.
References[edit]
W. Craig Gaines, Encyclopedia of Civil War shipwrecks. Louisiana State University Press, 2008.
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
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2 Jan: Northern Light
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4 Jan: Santi-Pietri
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9 Jan: USS Meteor, USS Potomac
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20 Jan: USS Margaret Scott
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23 Jan: Ocean Chief
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24 Jan: USS Peri
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25 Jan: USS New England, USS Stephen Young
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26 Jan: USS India, USS Timor
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7 Feb: CSS Curlew
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8 Feb: CSS Sea Bird
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10 Feb: CSS Appomattox, CSS Black Warrior, CSS Fanny, CSS Forrest
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20 Feb: USS Isaac N. Seymour
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25 Feb: USS R. B. Forbes
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8 Mar: USS Congress, USS Cumberland
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9 Mar: CSS George Page
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10 Mar: USS Whitehall
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March (unknown date): Camilla (orMemphis)
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4 Apr: CSS Red Rover
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7 Apr: CSS Grampus
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8 Apr: CSS New Orleans
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14 Apr: Erebus
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19 Apr: USS Maria J. Carlton
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24 Apr: CSS General Lovell, CSS Governor Moore, CSS Manassas, CSS Stonewall Jackson, Sweepstakes, USS Varuna
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25 Apr: CSS Mississippi, CSRC Pickens, Pioneer, Washington, CSS Pamlico
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28 Apr: CSS Louisiana, CSS McRae
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April (unknown date): CSS Jackson, CSS Oregon, CSS Carondelet
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10 May: USS Cincinnati, CSS Germantown, USS Mound City, CSS Fulton
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11 May: CSS Virginia
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15 May: CSS Jamestown
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May (unknown date): CSS United States
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6 Jun: CSS Colonel Lovell, CSS General Beauregard, CSS General Bragg, CSS General M. Jeff Thompson, CSS General Sterling Price, CSS General Sumter, CSS Little Rebel
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16 Jun: CSS Maurepas
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26 Jun: CSS General Earl Van Dorn, CSS Livingston, CSS General Polk
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28 Jun: USS Island Belle
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15 Jul: Johanna Wagner, USS Sidney C. Jones
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21 Jul: USS Sallie Wood
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24 Jul: Lord of the Isles
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6 Aug: CSS Arkansas
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14-15 Aug: USS Sumter
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23 Aug: USS Adirondack
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24 Aug: USS Henry Andrew, USS Isaac N. Seymour
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10 Sep: USS Tigress
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2 Oct: Iona
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15 Oct: G. L. Brockenborough
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25 Nov: USS Ellis
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November (unknown date): USS Mingo
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12 Dec: USS Cairo
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31 Dec: USS Monitor
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Unknown date: USS Noble
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