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Originally a United States Mail Service ship, the USMS ''Nashville'', was a brig-rigged, side-paddle-wheel passenger steamer built at Greenpoint, Brooklyn in 1853. Between 1853 and 1861 she was engaged in running between New York City and Charleston, South Carolina. During the Bombardment of Fort Sumter, the USMS ''Nashville'' sailed into Charleston without flying the US national standard and was fired upon by the USRC ''Harriet Lane'' which marked the first shot of the naval war in the Civil War. The ''Nashville'' raised the American flag, and after the surrender of Sumter, the ''Nashville'' docked at Charleston. After the fall of Fort Sumter, the Confederates captured her at Charleston and fitted her out as a cruiser. Under the command of Lieutenant Robert B. Pegram, CSN, she ran the blockade on October 21, 1861, and headed across the Atlantic to Southampton, England, the first ship of war to fly the Confederate flag in English waters. On November 19, 1861, near the British Isles, she boarded and burned an American merchant ship, the ''Harvey Birch'', the first such action by a Confederate commerce raider in the North Atlantic during the war. ''Nashville'' returned to Beaufort, North Carolina on February 28, 1862, having captured two prizes worth US$66,000 during the cruise. In this interval she was sold for use as a blockade runner and renamed ''Thomas L. Wragg''. On November 5, 1862, she was commissioned as the privateer ''Rattlesnake''. After running fast aground on the Ogeechee River, Georgia, the monitor destroyed her with shell fire from 11" and 15" turret guns on February 28, 1863. ==See also== *Ships captured in the American Civil War *Bibliography of American Civil War naval history 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「CSS Nashville (1853)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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