CSS COLUMBUS (Incomplete)
Built: Never Completed
Service: Never Completed
Home Port: Columbus, Georgia
Dimensions: 175' Length, 45' Beam, 9' Draft
Armor: Hull Unknown; Turret approximately 12".
Armament: 2 x 11" Brooke Smoothebores in centrally mounted Turret
Engines: Unknown
Speed: Unknown
Crew: Unknown
Summary
This extremely obscure vessel was the only "Monitor Type" vessel ever attempted by the Confederacy. There is significant debate about how much of the vessel was actually completed; some sources claim that a keel was laid; others that not a single nail was hammered into a single piece of wood. At any rate, the materials required to complete her were apparently not gathered, and the project never materialized.
Columbus is often confused with the CSS Columbia, an ill-fated casemate ironclad built in South Carolina.