CSS Tennessee

Three ships in the Confederate States Navy were named CSS Tennessee

  • CSS Tennessee (1861) was a steamship, built in 1853 and seized by the Confederate States in 1861; she was recaptured by the Union in the Battle of New Orleans and commissioned into the United States Navy as USS Tennessee; she was later renamed USS Mobile when the ironclad CSS Tennessee (1863) was captured in 1864
  • CSS Tennessee (1862) was burned at the stocks prior to completion
  • CSS Tennessee (1863) was an ironclad launched in 1863, commissioned in 1864 and was captured at the Battle of Mobile Bay, and renamed USS Tennessee
For similarly named ships, the southern U.S. state of Tennessee, and other uses, see Tennessee (disambiguation).
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