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Name | Curlew |
Owner | Thomas D. Warren |
Operator | Albemarle Steamboat Company |
Builder | Harlan & Hollingsworth Company, Willmington, DE |
Yard number | 261 |
Launched | 1856 |
Commissioned | Acquired by the Confederate Navy in 1861. |
In service | 1856-1862 |
Homeport | Edenton, NC |
Fate | Run aground on February 7 and burned on February 8, 1862 |
Notes | Iron construction |
General characteristics | |
Tons burthen | 236 tons |
Length | 135 ft (41 m) |
Beam | 23 ft 6 in (7.16 m) |
Draft | 4 ft (1.2 m) |
Depth of hold | 8 ft (2.4 m) |
Installed power | 1 boiler, 40 psi |
Propulsion | 1 walking beam steam engine powering side paddlewheels |
Speed | 12 mph (19 km/h) |
Endurance | "carries from eight to ten days fuel." |
Complement | 22 to 30 crewmembers (In Confederate service) |
Armament | 1 x rifled 32 pounder (bow), 1 x 12 pounder (stern) |
Notes | Iron hull; frames of bar iron with keepers. |
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CSS Curlew was an iron-hull North Carolina Sounds paddlewheel steamboat that was taken into the Confederate Navy in 1861. It was run aground and burned in the battle for Roanoke Island on February 8, 1862. Its wreck was discovered in 1988 and archaeologically investigated in 1994.