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Sea Bird Lt. Patrick McCarrick, Commanding |
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Flag Officer Lynch’s flagship, the CSS Sea Bird was sunk after taking a shot through her hull and then being rammed by the USS Commodore Perry in the battle of Elizabeth City. The majority of the prisoners captured in the battle were crewmen from the Sea Bird. Her guns were salvaged by the Commodore Perry and transferred to the USS Granite. The engines and machinery were salvaged in 1866. She was a former passenger steamer from New Jersey. |
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Original Name |
Sea Bird |
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Tonnage |
202 13/95 tons |
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Rig |
Wood-hulled side-wheel steamer |
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Dimensions |
133 8/10’ x 21 2/10’ x 7 6/10’ |
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Built By |
Benjamin C. Terry |
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Location/Year |
Keyport, NJ; 1854 |
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Home Port |
Norfolk, VA (enrollment #78 – 26 Dec. 1860) |
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Description |
1 deck, no mast, round tuck, no figurehead |
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Machinery by |
Birkbeck, Furnam & Co., NY |
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Engine/Boilers |
1 low pressure 30x84 vertical-beam engine |
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Owner(s) |
E. H. Delk |
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Commissioned |
N.A. |
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Armament |
1 – 30 pdr. Parrot rifle, 1 smoothbore 32 pdr. |
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The above picture appeared in Harper’s Weekly. It is a fictional drawing. The Commodore Perry was a converted NY ferryboat and the CSS Sea Bird was a side-wheeler. Neither of the ships pictured fits these descriptions. |
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