CSS Selma

	CSS Selma
History
Confederate States
Name	Florida; Selma;
Namesake	Florida; Selma, Alabama;
Operator	Confederate States Navy
Launched	1856
Commissioned	1861
Renamed	Selma, July 1862
Fate	Captured at Battle of Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864
United States
Name	Selma
Operator	Union Navy
Acquired	5 August 1864
Decommissioned	16 July 1865
Fate	Sold into merchant service 16 July 1865; Sunk 24 June 1868;
General characteristics
Displacement	590 tons
Length	252 ft (77 m)
Beam	30 ft (9.1 m)
Draft	6 ft (1.8 m)
Propulsion	Steam engine
Speed	9 knots (17 km/h)
Complement	65 to 99 officers and men
Armament	2 × 9 in (230 mm) smoothbore cannons; 1 × 8 in (200 mm) smoothbore cannon; 1 × 6.4 in (160 mm) rifled cannon;
Armor	0.375 in (9.5 mm) iron deck plating

CSS Selma was a steamship in the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. She served in the Confederate Navy first as Florida, and later as Selma. She was captured by the Union Navy steamer USS Metacomet during the Battle of Mobile Bay. She served as USS Selma until the end of the war, when she was decommissioned and sold for use as a merchant ship.

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