CSS Tennessee (1863)

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USS Tennessee in 1865
History
Confederate States
Name	Tennessee
Namesake	State of Tennessee
Builder	Henry D. Bassett
Laid down	October 1862
Launched	February 1863
Commissioned	16 February 1864
Captured	At the Battle of Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864
United States
Name	Tennessee
Acquired	5 August 1864
Commissioned	5 August 1864
Decommissioned	19 August 1865
Fate	Sold for scrap, 27 November 1867
General characteristics
Type	Casemate ironclad
Displacement	1,273 long tons (1,293 t)
Length	209 ft (63.7 m)
Beam	48 ft (14.6 m)
Draft	14 ft (4.3 m)
Installed power	4 boilers
Propulsion	2 Shafts 2 Steam engines
Speed	5 knots (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph)
Complement	133 officers and enlisted men
Armament	2 × 7 in (178 mm) Brooke rifles 4 × 6.4 in (163 mm) Brooke rifles ram
Armor	Casemate: 5–6 in (127–152 mm) Deck: 2 in (51 mm)
Service record
Commanders:	Lieutenant James D. Johnston
Operations:	Battle of Mobile Bay Siege of Fort Morgan

CSS Tennessee was a casemate ironclad ram built for the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. She served as the flagship of Admiral Franklin Buchanan (who would later be captured in the same ship), commander of the Mobile Squadron, after her commissioning. She was captured in 1864 by the Union Navy during the Battle of Mobile Bay and then participated in the Union's subsequent Siege of Fort Morgan. Tennessee was decommissioned after the war and sold in 1867 for scrap.