CSS Robert E. Lee
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CSS Robert E. Lee was a fast paddle-steamer, originally built as a Glasgow-Belfast packet boat named Giraffe, which was bought as a blockade runner for the Confederate States during the American Civil War, then subsequently served in the United States Navy as USS Fort Donelson and in the Chilean Navy as Concepción.
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CSS Robert E. Lee, 1862 | |
History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Giraffe |
Owner | J. & G. Burns Line |
Builder | J&G Thomson's Clyde Bank Iron Shipyard, Govan, Glasgow |
Launched | 16 May 1860 |
Confederate States | |
Name | Robert E. Lee |
Operator | Confederate States Navy |
Commissioned | 1862 |
Fate | Captured by U.S. Navy, 9 November 1863 |
United States | |
Name | Fort Donelson |
Operator | Union Navy |
Acquired | 9 November 1863 |
Commissioned | 29 June 1864 |
Decommissioned | 17 August 1865 |
Fate | Sold October 1865 and renamed Isabella |
Chile | |
Name | Concepción |
Acquired | 1866 |
Commissioned | 1866 |
Decommissioned | 1868 |
Fate | Sold 1 May 1868 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 900 tons |
Length | 283 ft (86 m) |
Beam | 20 ft (6.1 m) |
Draft | 10 ft (3.0 m) |
Propulsion | Steam engine |
Speed | 13.5 knots (25.0 km/h) |
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