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| Ship country = Confederate States
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| Ship name = CSS ''Sea Bird''
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| Ship owner = E. H. Delk
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| Ship homeport = [[Norfolk, Virginia]]
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| Ship fate = Rammed and sunk by {{USS|Commodore Perry|1859|6}} February 10, 1862
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| Ship displacement = 202 tons
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| Ship power = 1 low pressure 30" x 84" vertical-beam engine built by Birkbeck, Furnam & Co., NY
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| Ship notes = No mast, round tuck, no figurehead (Information from enrollment #78; December 26, 1860).
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[[File:ConfederateRevenueServiceEnsign11stars.png|thumb|right|The Command flag of Captain Lynch, flown from the CSS ''Sea Bird'']]

'''CSS ''Sea Bird''''' was a sidewheel [[Steamboat|steamer]] in the [[Confederate States Navy]].

''Sea Bird'' was built at [[Keyport, New Jersey|Keyport]], [[New Jersey]] in 1854, was purchased by [[North Carolina]] at [[Norfolk, Virginia|Norfolk]], [[Virginia]] in 1861 and fitted for service with the [[Confederate States Navy]]. She was assigned to duty along the Virginia and North Carolina coasts with [[Lieutenant]] [[Patrick McCarrick]], CSN, in command. ''Sea Bird'' served as the flagship of Confederate [[Flag Officer]] [[William F. Lynch]]'s "[[Mosquito Fleet]]" during the hard-fought battles in defense of [[Roanoke Island]] on February 7–8, 1862, and [[Elizabeth City, North Carolina]], on February 10 when she was rammed and sunk by [[USS Commodore Perry (1859)|USS ''Commodore Perry'']]. Her casualties were two killed, four wounded, and the rest captured.

==References==
{{Portal|American Civil War}}

W. Craig Gaines, ''Encyclopedia of Civil War shipwrecks''. Louisiana State University Press, 2008.

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==External links==
* [http://www.tfoenander.com/seabird.htm CSS ''Sea Bird'' Muster Roll].

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[[Category:Ships of the Confederate States Navy]]
[[Category:Shipwrecks of the Carolina coast]]
[[Category:Shipwrecks of the American Civil War]]
[[Category:Maritime incidents in February 1862]]
[[Category:Ships sunk in collisions]]
[[Category:1854 ships]]
[[Category:Ships built in Keyport, New Jersey]]


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