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CSS Sea Bird, built at Keyport, N.J., in 1854, was purchased by North Carolina at Norfolk, Va., in 1861 and fitted for service with the Confederate States Navy. She was assigned to duty along the Virginia and North Carolina coasts with Lt. P. McCarrick, CSN, in command. Sea Bird served as the flagship of Confederate Flag Officer W. F. Lynch's "mosquito fleet" during the hard-fought battles in defense of Roanoke Island on 7-8 February 1862, and Elizabeth City, N.C., on the 10th when she was rammed and sunk by USS Commodore Perry.

 

 

 
 
Career
Launched: 1854
Commissioned: 1861
Decommissioned: February 10, 1862
Fate: Rammed and sunk by USS Commodore Perry
General Characteristics
Displacement: 220 tons
Length: ?
Beam: ?
Draught: ?
Propulsion: Steam engine
Complement: 42 Officers and men
Armament: 1 32-pounder smoothbore cannon, 1 30-pounder rifled cannon
 

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