Aquarius S15 CSS/USS Atlanta
History
Ironclad, converted from iron hulled blockade runner Fingal
1862 Spring,
acquired and converted at Savannah
Nov 22, commissioned
1863 Jan 19,
moved downriver toward Fort Pulaski to St. Augustine Creek
March, on station near Fort Jackson
June 10, moved down from Elba Island to Wilmington River
June 17, engaged USS weehawken and USS Nahant (both Passaic class monitors) in
Wassaw Sound GA, damaged, run around and captured
Removed from bar, surveyed and repaired at Port Royal, taken into Union Service,
rearmed and commissioned. Minesweeper in James River
1864 May
5, convoyed Butler's troops up James River
May 21, drove off Confederate cavalry attacking Fort Powhatan
Guarded James River against Confederate Ironclads (Virginia II, Fredericksburg
and Richmond)
1869
Sold to Haiti
Dec, disappeared at sea off Cape Hatteras
Sources
General plan from US. National Archives and various photos of the ship