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CSS Robert E. Lee, a 642-ton iron-hulled side-wheel gunboat, was built in 1860 at Glasgow, Scotland, as the commercial steamer Giraffe. In 1862 she became the Confederate blockade runner Robert E. Lee and, during the next year, successfully penetrated the Federal blockade of the South more than twenty times. While attempting to reach Wilmington, North Carolina, on 9 November 1863, the ship was captured by the U.S. Navy ships James Adger and Iron Age.

 

This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.

  

 

 
Career
Launched: 1862
Commissioned: 1862
Decommissioned: November 9, 1863
Fate: Captured by U.S.
General Characteristics
Displacement: 642 tons
Length: 283 ft
Beam: 20 ft
Draught: 10 ft
Propulsion: Steam engine
Complement: ?
Armament: 5 12-pounder cannons, 2 30-pounder cannons
 

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