- Joined
- May 3, 2013
- Location
- Pennsylvania
The US Mail Steamer SS Nashville was seized in Charleston after the capture of Fort Sumter. Now named CSS Nashville, she became the first vessel flying the Confederate flag in the UK and the first Confederate vessel to seize a US merchantman. The vessel was rechristened as a blockade runner under the name SS Thomas L Wragg and later as the privateer, SS Rattlesnake. While sailing under the name SS Rattlesnake she was destroyed in the Ogeechee River, Georgia, in 1863. In 1864 the Confederacy commissioned ironclad CSS Nashville which served in Mobile Bay until the end of the War.