CSS Arctic was a Confederate ironclad floating battery built at Wilmington, North Carolina in 1862.[1] Confederate forces seized the USS Arctic at the beginning of the war and converted into a receiving ship for the navy. The Arctic was a 328-ton screw steamer built in Philadelphia in 1851 at the navy yard by Theodore Birely. The two-decked, three-masted steamer measured 121 feet in length, 24 feet in beam, and 12 feet in depth and displaced 125 tons.[2]
| History | |
|---|---|
 Confederate States | |
| Name | Arctic |
| Laid down | 1862 |
| Launched | 1862 |
| Fate | Scuttled December 24, 1864 |
| General characteristics | |
| Armament | 3 guns |
Cape Fear River
CSS Arctic performed additional duty as receiving ship for Flag Officer Robert F Pinkney's North Carolina defense force. She was stationed in the Cape Fear River from 1862 to 1864, with Lt C B Poindexter in command. Her machinery had been removed in the latter part of 1862 for the ironclad CSS Richmond then completing at Richmond, Virginia. With the threat to Wilmington, created by the arrival off Fort Fisher of the joint army-navy expedition under Rear Admiral Porter and Major General Butler, Arctic was sunk on 24 December 1864 to obstruct the river channel.[1]
References
- ^ Jackson, Claude (1996). A Maritime History and Survey of the Cape Fear and Northeast Cape Fear Rivers, Wilmington Harbor, North Carolina. North Carolina: Kure Beach, North Carolina: Underwater Archaeology Unit, State Historic Preservation Office, Division of Archives and History,; Wilmington, North Carolina: US Army Corps of Engineers, Wilmington District. p. 272.
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