Upon inspection, the ship was judged too expensive to refit and was taken out of U.S. USS Mobile was damaged in a hurricane off the mouth of the Rio Grande in October 1864, and sent to New York for repair. This second CSS Tennessee had been taken during a dramatic encounter at Mobile Bay. In September 1864, she was renamed USS Mobile to allow a famous Confederate armored ram ship to carry the name Tennessee after its capture. As USS Tennessee, she was not only a fast and effective blockade ship in the West Gulf Squadron, but also a powerful gunship used to bombard Ft. Farragut for the conclusion of the Mississippi Campaign. After the Union capture of New Orleans, the ship was put into armed Union service, including as the flagship of United States Navy Admiral David G. She was tied up in harbor at New Orleans when the American Civil War began on April 12, 1861.Īt the outbreak of the Civil War, she was trapped in port at New Orleans, Louisiana, and was seized for use as a Confederate blockade runner as the CSS Tennessee in 1861, although she was never able to escape blockade of the New Orleans harbor.
Tennessee for several years regularly served the Vera Cruz, Mexico– New Orleans route, often transporting immigrants to America as well as large sums of Mexican gold and silver. The Tennessee delivered the last group of "immigrants" volunteering as mercenary soldiers for William Walker in Nicaragua, and, after defeat of Walker's forces, took home hundreds of disconsolate, defeated survivors. A short time later Tennessee was used to open the first regular passenger steamship service between New York City and Central America.ĭuring the California Gold Rush, the Tennessee transported "49'ers" to the eastern shores of Panama and Nicaragua to travel to California's Sierra Nevada mountains. Not long afterward, she was sent on the first trans- Atlantic crossing by a Baltimore steamship, sailing to Southampton, England, and Le Havre, France. She began her service as a merchant vessel plying the Baltimore– Charleston route. Robb, for the famed War of 1812 veteran, James Hooper, president of the Baltimore and Southern Steam Packet Company, and launched in 1853, as the Tennessee. The ship was built in Baltimore, Maryland, by shipbuilder John A.
In 2003, the wreck was located 100 mi (160 km) off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, and artifacts are on display in selected museums, along with video stories about passengers and crew members. SS Republic was a sidewheel steamship, originally named SS Tennessee (also named CSS Tennessee, USS Tennessee, and USS Mobile for a time), lost in a hurricane off the coast of Georgia in October 1865, en route to New Orleans. 100 miles (160 km) southeast of Savannah, Georgia Returned to civilian service in March 1865 Recaptured by the United States in April 1862 For other ships, see USS Mobile.Ĭaptured in by Confederate States of America
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