CSS Chattahoochee
CSS Chattahoochee was a twin-screw steam powered gunboat built at Saffold, Georgia; she was christened for the river upon which she was built. The gunboat entered Confederate States Navy service in February 1863.
Ship's engines and lower portion of the after hull, photographed following recovery in the vicinity of Columbus, Georgia, circa the early or middle 1960s | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Confederate States | |
| Name | Chattahoochee |
| Laid down | Saffold, Georgia |
| In service | February 1863 |
| Fate | Scuttled 17 April 1865, stern raised and put on display in 1963 |
| General characteristics | |
| Length | 150 ft (46 m) |
| Beam | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
| Draft | 8 ft (2.4 m) |
| Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Complement | 120 officers and crew |
| Armament | 4 32-pounder smoothbore cannon, a 32-pounder rifled cannon and a 9-inch smoothbore cannon |
CSS Muscogee and Chattahoochee | |
U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
| NRHP reference No. | 70000212 |
| Added to NRHP | May 13, 1970 |
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