After distinguished service in the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, the vessel was transferred to the Gulf Blockading Squadron on January 26, 1862.

The vessel was armed with four 32-pounder cannon (a 20-pounder rifled cannon was added later) and renamed Hatteras. Navy in September 1861 and converted into a gun boat during the same year.

An iron-hulled steamer of 1450 tons, the side-wheel steamer was purchased by the U.S. This important shipwreck, the USS Hatteras, has been the subject of repeated investigations by BOEM, the Texas Historical Commission, and Texas A&M University at Galveston.Ĭonstructed in 1861 by the Harlan and Hollingsworth Company of Wilmington, Delaware, for the Charles Morgan line of Gulf coast steamships, the vessel was originally known as the St. warship, however, was sunk at sea in the Gulf. The remains of the Union ironclad Tecumseh, whose sinking by a Confederate mine prompted Farragut’s famous order 'Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!' are well known off Fort Morgan, Alabama.

A number of important Civil War vessels have been located in state waters, such as the Confederate ironclads CSS Louisiana in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, and the Huntsville and Tuscaloosa in the Mobile River.

The Civil War in the Gulf is defined by the Northern strategy of the blockade of Southern ports and the daring attempts by Confederate vessels to run this blockade.

American civil war navy ships