CSS Forrest

History

Confederate States
Name	Forrest
Builder	Morgan L. Taylor, New York
Launched	1855
Acquired	1861
Homeport	Norfolk, Virginia
Fate	Burned on February 10, 1862
General characteristics
Type	Steam tug
Tonnage	109 tons
Length	93 ft (28 m)
Beam	17 ft (5.2 m)
Depth	7 ft (2.1 m)
Propulsion	Steam engine, 1 propeller
Armament	2 guns: 1 × 32-pounder gun (bow) 1 × howitzer (stern)
Notes	1 deck, no mast, round stern, no figurehead (Enrollment no.8: February 29, 1856)

CSS Forrest was a wooden-hulled Confederate gunboat that saw action in the North Carolina sounds in 1861 to 1862. Despite being considered "worn out", she saw continuous service until destroyed after the battle of Elizabeth City in February 1862.

Ship history

The Forrest was originally named the J. A. Smith when launched in 1855. Designed as a canal boat, she was converted to steam in 1856. The Smith was bought at Norfolk in 1861 and renamed Weldon N. Edwards in honor of the President of the North Carolina Secession Convention. She was ordered to Hatteras Inlet by Flag Officer Samuel Barron on July 27, 1861:

from which place you will make every exertion to defend the coasts of that State and harass and annoy the commerce of the enemy. Should you make prizes you will send them either to Norfolk, Va., or some port in North Carolina, as your judgment may determine to be most proper, proceeding in accordance with the law of the Confederate States on the subject of prizes. You will ship any seamen that may offer.^[1]

Edwards patrolled Hatteras Inlet in North Carolina under the command of Lt. J. Cooke. In August 1861, Cooke reported to Flag Officer Barron that his ship was "entirely worthless, the boilers worn out and the timbers of his vessel rotten."^[2]

By early October, the tug was back in Norfolk, where on the 3rd she received orders from Flag Officer French Forrest to return quickly to Roanoke Island and place the gunboat at the service of local CSN commander William Lynch.^[3]

At some point in late 1861, the Edwards name was changed to Forrest. She was part of a five gunboat fleet that attempted to provoke the Union forces at anchor at Hatteras Inlet on November 3, 1861. The Union gunboats did not reply to the Confederate challenge, so the Confederate gunboats retreated with the Curlew towing Forrest back home.^[4]

On December 30, 1861, Forrest had to be towed by Curlew to Edenton for repairs. By January 3, 1862, she was back with the rest of the Mosquito Fleet at Roanoke Island. For the rest of the month, Forrest was involved in towing schooners and performing patrolling duties.^[5]

Forrest participated in the Battle of Roanoke Island on February 7, 1862, during which her commanding officer, Lt. J. L. Hoole, CSN, was seriously wounded. Furthermore, Forrest was disabled late in the action "by the displacement of her propeller" and towed to Elizabeth City, N.C., for repairs.^[6] There, three days later, while out of water on the marine railway, she was burned to prevent capture by Union forces.

References

Notes

^ ORN 6: 715
^ ORN 6: 795f
^ ORN 6:736f
^ ORN 6:784
^ ORN 6:784ff
^ ORN 6: 595ff

Bibliography

US Navy Department, Official records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. Series I: Volume 6. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1894-1922.
William Lytle & Forrest Holdcamper, Merchant Steam Vessels of the United States, 1790-1868, Steamship Historical Society, New York, 1975.
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.

v t e Steamers of the Confederate States Navy
Appomattox Atlanta Beaufort Bombshell Curlew Ellis Fanny Forrest Ivy George Page Governor Moore Grand Duke Jamestown Junaluska Nashville Patrick Henry Raleigh Sea Bird Selma Winslow
List of ships of the Confederate States Navy

v t e Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1862
Shipwrecks	2 Jan: Northern Light 4 Jan: Santi-Pietri 9 Jan: USS Meteor, USS Potomac 20 Jan: USS Margaret Scott 23 Jan: Ocean Chief 24 Jan: USS Peri 25 Jan: USS New England, USS Stephen Young 26 Jan: USS India, USS Timor 7 Feb: CSS Curlew 8 Feb: CSS Sea Bird 10 Feb: CSS Appomattox, CSS Black Warrior, CSS Fanny, CSS Forrest 20 Feb: USS Isaac N. Seymour 25 Feb: USS R. B. Forbes 8 Mar: USS Congress, USS Cumberland 9 Mar: CSS George Page 10 Mar: USS Whitehall March (unknown date): Camilla (or Memphis) 4 Apr: CSS Red Rover 7 Apr: CSS Grampus 8 Apr: CSS New Orleans 14 Apr: Erebus 19 Apr: USS Maria J. Carlton 24 Apr: CSS General Lovell, CSS Governor Moore, CSS Manassas, CSS Stonewall Jackson, Sweepstakes, USS Varuna 25 Apr: CSS Mississippi, CSRC Pickens, Pioneer, Washington, CSS Pamlico 28 Apr: CSS Louisiana, CSS McRae April (unknown date): CSS Jackson, CSS Oregon, CSS Carondelet 10 May: USS Cincinnati, CSS Germantown, USS Mound City, CSS Fulton 11 May: CSS Virginia 15 May: CSS Jamestown May (unknown date): CSS United States 6 Jun: CSS Colonel Lovell, CSS General Beauregard, CSS General Bragg, CSS General M. Jeff Thompson, CSS General Sterling Price, CSS General Sumter, CSS Little Rebel 16 Jun: CSS Maurepas 26 Jun: CSS General Earl Van Dorn, CSS Livingston, CSS General Polk 28 Jun: USS Island Belle 15 Jul: Johanna Wagner, USS Sidney C. Jones 21 Jul: USS Sallie Wood 24 Jul: Lord of the Isles 6 Aug: CSS Arkansas 14-15 Aug: USS Sumter 23 Aug: USS Adirondack 24 Aug: USS Henry Andrew, USS Isaac N. Seymour 10 Sep: USS Tigress 2 Oct: Iona 15 Oct: G. L. Brockenborough 25 Nov: USS Ellis November (unknown date): USS Mingo 12 Dec: USS Cairo 31 Dec: USS Monitor Unknown date: USS Noble
Other incidents	11 Jan: HMS St Vincent January (unknown date): Mona's Queen 22 Feb: HMS Defence February: USS Vermont 8 Mar: USS Minnesota 8 May: USS Galena 13 May: Planter 23 Jun: Memphis 7 Aug: USS Oneida 17 Aug: Great Eastern 15 Nov: Admiral Moorsom 22 Nov: USS Bainbridge Unknown date: Young America
1861 1863

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