Destruction of the C.S.S. Nashville
N 31° 53.342 W 081° 11.981
17R E 481116 N 3528153
The swift Confederate blockade runner NASHVILLE (renamed RATTLESNAKE) was destroyed by the monitor MONTAUK, February 28, 1863, after she went aground on a sandbar in a hairpin bend of the Ogeechee River. Machinery from the NASHVILLE is displayed here
Waymark Code: WM26DQ
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 09/12/2007
Published By: C4A
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photo from the DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER web site
From historical markers at the site:
"The swift Confederate blockade runner NASHVILLE (renamed RATTLESNAKE) was destroyed by the monitor MONTAUK, February 28, 1863, after she went aground on a sandbar in a hairpin bend of the Ogeechee River. The engagement was a three-way battle with the guns of the fort firing on the MONTAUK and the MONTAUK concentrating on the NASHVILLE. The wreck of the NASHVILLE lies in the direction of the arrow, approximately 1200 yards."
"These portions of rotating machinery were removed, 1960, from the wreck of the Confederate blockade runner NASHVILLE, sunk in the Ogeechee River by shell fire from the U.S.S. MONTAUK in Feb., 1863. These relics give some conception of the power of the NASHVILLE's engine."