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	Commander: Lt. Patrick McCarrick
	Original name: Sea Bird
	Tonnage: 202 13/95 tons
	Rig: Wood hull side-wheel steamer
	Dimensions: 133 8/10’ x 21 2/10’ x 7 6/10’
	Built By: Benjamin C. Terry
	Location/Year: Keyport, NJ; 1854
	Home Port: Norfolk, VA (enrollment #78 – 26 Dec. 1860)
	Description: 1 deck, no mast, round tuck, no figurehead
	Machinery By: Birkbeck, Furnam & Co., NY
	Engine/Boilers: 1 low-pressure vertical beam, 30x84
	Owner(s): E. H. Delk
	Armament: 1 – 30 pdr. Parrot rifle, 1 – 32 pdr. smooth bore
Service Record · Defended Roanoke Island, NC, 7-8 February 1862 · Sunk by USS Commodore Perry during the battle of Elizabeth City, 10 February 1862 · Salvaged in 1866 or 1867
The CSS Sea Bird served at flagship for Flag Officer William Lynch. She sank as a result of being rammed by the USS Commodore Perry during the battle of Elizabeth City. She was a former passenger steamer from New Jersey.
Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper drawing of the CSS Sea Bird Photo of CSS Sea Bird’s flag courtesy of the Museum of the Confederacy