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 CIVIL WAR SHIP MODELS

ModelShipMaster.com has several dozen ship models in distinguished museums. Here's one you can visit and enjoy: Great Lakes Naval Museum.
 
 
CSS Tennessee

Flagship of Admiral Buchanan in the Battle of Mobile Bay.

 
USS Cairo

Partially restored and is on exhibit at Vicksburg, Mississippi. 

 
USS Monitor

Most radical designs

 
USS New Ironsides


The most formidable vessel built by the Union.  

 
USS Hartford

Played a key role to that secured the South could not win the war. 

 

 
USS
Kearsarge

One of the three most important ships in the United States Navy.  

 

 
CSS Alabama

The most successful raider. 


USS George Washington Parke Custis

The first balloon reconnaissance ship.

 
CSS
Virginia


Bold and successful.
 
USS Tecumseh


Led a van of ironclads in the Battle of Mobile Bay.

 
USS Fort Hindman

Designed to patrol in shallow waters and small tributaries where heavier ironclads could not enter. 

 
USS Pontoosuc


A double-ender side wheel gunboat.
 

 
CSS Teaser


A pioneer minelayer.

 
CSS Hunley
 
CSS Albemarle

The South’s most successful ironclad during the war.

 
 
CSS Manassas

 


The first Confederate ironclad and also the first iron armored vessel to attack an enemy. 
 

 
Gloire
 


The world's very first iron ocean-going warship.

   

 
Ross Winans Cigar boat

The innovative technology attracted Jules Verne's attention.