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	Commanders: Lt. R. C. Duvall
	Lt. William H. Parker
	Original name: Caledonia
	Tonnage: 85 64/95 tons
	Rig: Tugboat; iron hull screw steamer
	Dimensions: 86’ x 17’6” x 6’11”
	Built by: Pusey & Jones
	Location/Year: Wilmington, Del., 1854
	Home Port: Edenton, NC
	Description: 1 deck, 1 mast, round stern, no figurehead
	Engine/Boilers: High-pressure steam
	Commissioned: 9 July 1861
	Armament: 1 - 32 pdr.
Service Record · Part of the North Carolina Navy; sold to the Confederacy in 1861 · Engaged USS Monticello off Oregon Inlet, NC, 21 July 1862 · Defended Roanoke Island, NC, 7-8 February 1862 · Present but not engaged in battle of Elizabeth City, NC, 10 February 1862 · Served as tender for CSS Virginia at Hampton Roads, VA, 7 March – 11 April 1862 · Captured at the fall of Richmond, VA, 4 April 1862
Part of the original North Carolina Navy, the CSS Beaufort escaped the destruction of the “mosquito fleet” at the battle of Elizabeth City. Lt. Parker was ordered ashore with his crew to man the battery at Cobb’s Point; to prevent her capture, Parker sent the CSS Beaufort to Norfolk via the Dismal Swamp Canal at the beginning of the battle. She later fought in the battle of Hampton Roads as a tender to the CSS Virginia. Transferred to the James River Squadron, she was captured by the Union forces at the fall of Richmond. She was sold after the war. Redocumented as the Roanoke on 31 October 1865, she became a barge on 2 December 1878.