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[Trivia Master]

What is the original name of the steamer "Robert E. Lee"?

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[Reb]

Giraffe
Robert E. Lee was originally the merchant ship Giraffe, a schooner-rigged, iron-hulled, oscillating-engined paddle-steamer with two stacks, built by J&G Thomson's Clyde Bank Iron Shipyard at Govan in Glasgow, Scotland, and launched on 16 May 1860 as a fast Glasgow-Belfast packet for the Burns Line
-Paul Silverstone (6 November 2006). Civil War Navies, 1855-1883. Routledge. p. 49. ISBN 978-1-135-86549-8

 

[Jimklag]

What is the original name of the steamer "Robert E. Lee"?

credit: @JOHN42768

Original name was HMS Giraffe and later it was USS Fort Donelson.

 

[Wallyfish]

The CSS Robert E Lee was a merchant originally named "Giraffe".

Source

https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/OnlineLibrary/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-f/ft-dnlsn.htm

 

[Study the Past]

If this is in reference the 1862 CSS Robert E. Lee, it was originally a merchant ship called the Giraffe.

The other would be the Steamboat Robert E. Lee which launched in 1866, and I am not aware of it ever having been called anything else.

 

[kholland]

The merchant ship Giraffe

 

[captaindrew]

I'm assuming you mean the steamer Robert E Lee launched in 1866 and beat the Nactchez in the big 1870 steam boat race from St. Louis to New Orleans because there were more than one. The original name was ROB'T E LEE.

 

[nextcity]

Robert E. Lee

 

[Stony]

CSS Robert E. Lee was originally the merchant ship Giraffe, a schooner-rigged, iron-hulled, oscillating-engined paddle-steamer with two stacks, built by J&G Thomson's Clyde Bank Iron Shipyard at Govan in Glasgow, Scotland, and launched on 16 May 1860 as a fast Glasgow-Belfast packet for the Burns Line.
source-wiki

 

[William G Hendry]

GIRAFFE

Robert E. Lee was originally the merchant ship Giraffe, a schooner-rigged, iron-hulled, oscillating-engined paddle-steamer with two stacks, built by J&G Thomson's Clyde Bank Iron Shipyard at Govan in Glasgow, Scotland, and launched on 16 May 1860 as a fast Glasgow-Belfast packet for the Burns Line.[1] Alexander Collie & Co. of Manchester acquired her for their blockade-running fleet, but were persuaded by renowned blockade-runner Lieutenant John Wilkinson, CSN, to sell her to the Confederate States Navy for the same £32,000 just paid

 

[Copperhead-mi]

If you mean the 1860 built paddle-steamer that was sold in 1862 to the Confederate States Navy and renamed the CSS Robert E. Lee, then her original name was the Giraffe.

If you mean the 1866 built paddle-steamer named the Robert E. Lee, then that was the original name of the ship and remained its name until she was destroyed by fire in 1882.

 

[ErnieMac]

Assuming you mean the blockade runner CSS Robert E Lee which was originally named Giraffe. As far as I can tell the Mississippi riverboat Robert E. Lee never had another name.

 

[DBF]

The steamer Robert E. Lee (side wheel steamer) was built in the UK and was originally named (1860) the Giraffe until it was sold to the Confederate Navy in 1862.
https://www.history.navy.mil/resear...te_ships/robert-e-lee-side-wheel-steamer.html

 

[Brenal]

Giraffe .

 

[JOHN42768]

Credit for question

 

[MRB1863]

Robert E. Lee was originally the merchant ship Giraffe

 

[FarawayFriend]

There were several steamships named after Robert E. Lee...

I think I'll go with this one, the paddle steamer CSS Robert E. Lee and answer that her original name was "Giraffe".

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=CSS_Robert_E._Lee&oldid=755743670

 

[Schwallanscher]

i guess i can easyly discart the ss robert e lee sunk by u-166 in 1942 - i also discard this ss robert e lee launched in 1866 (apparently that was already her name when she was built) which leaves me with css robert e lee formerly uss fort donelson (after she was sold to chile: concepción).

Edit - Answer revised in subsequent post.

Hoosier

 

[Mint Julep]

Giraffe

 

[JohnW.]

Another question that has multiple correct answers

If you are referring to the blockade runner CSS Robert E. Lee, she was constructed and christened the GIRAFFE. She was then sold to the CSA for 32,000 pound sterling and renamed the RLE.
If you are referring to the steamboat Robert E. Lee, she was constructed and christened the Robert E. Lee from the beginning. It had no previous name. It did have a nickname however..."The Monarch of the Mississippi".