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	Commander: Lieutenant James L. Tayloe
	Original name: Philip T. Heartt
	Tonnage: 145 22/95 tons
	Rig: Tugboat; iron hull screw steamer
	Dimensions: 115 7/10’ x 18 3/10’ x 7 2/10’
	Built At/Year: New York, NY, 1845
	Armament: 1 banded rifled 32 pdr., 1 rifled 8 pdr.
Service Record · Chartered in 1861 to replace the original Fanny after the fall of Forts Hatteras and Clark · Surrendered to CSS Raleigh, CSS Curlew, and CSS Junaluska, 1 October 1861 · Defense of Roanoke Island, NC, as the CSS Fanny, 7-8 February 1862 · Grounded and burned at the battle of Elizabeth City, NC, 10 February 1861
The CSS Raleigh, CSS Junaluska, and the CSS Curlew captured the USS Fanny in the Pamlico Sound at Loggerhead Inlet on 1 October 1861. As the CSS Fanny, she was put in a sinking condition during the battle of Elizabeth City by a shot from the USS Commodore Perry; her captain ran her ashore near the battery at Cobb’s Point and set her afire. The wreck was salvaged in 1866. This was not the same Fanny that participated in the capture of Forts Hatteras and Clark. That ship was damaged and returned to its owners, being replaced by the chartered Phillip F. Heartt. Originally an iron barge, she was converted to a screw steamer in 1860 at Philadelphia. The crew of the old Fanny swiped her name board off the stern and mounted it on the Heartt.
Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper drawing of the CSS Fanny Acting Master’s Mate Raymond capturing the flag of the CSS Fanny