| Image:CSSBombshell.png CSS Bombshell - Detail from a drawing of the encounter in Albemarle Sound on 5 May, 1864 |
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| Career |  |
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| Laid down: | Unknown |
| Launched: | Unknown |
| Commissioned: | April 1864 |
| Decommissioned: | May 5, 1864 |
| Status: | Captured by U.S. Navy |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | Unknown |
| Length: | 90 ft (27.4 m) |
| Beam: | Unknown |
| Draft: | 3 ft 6 in (1.1 m) |
| Propulsion: | Steam engine |
| Speed: | Unknown |
| Complement: | 37 officers and men |
| Armament: | 3 howitzers, 1 x 20 pounder (9 kg) cannon |
CSS Bombshell — believed to have been an Erie Canal steamer — was a U.S. Army transport. Bombshell was sunk by the Confederate batteries in Albemarle Sound, North Carolina on April 18, 1864. She was raised by the Confederate forces and taken into the Confederate States Navy under the command of Lieutenant Albert Gallatin Hudgins, CSN. Bombshell was recaptured in Albemarle Sound by USS Mattabesett and USS Sassacus on May 5, 1864 and sent to New York.
This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
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