css hampton

lign ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"\|Confederate Navy Jack
aunched:	1862
ommissioned:	1862
ecommissioned:	April 3, 1865
ate:	Burned to prevent capture
olspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"\|General Characteristics
isplacement:	166 tons
ength:	106 feet
eam:	21 feet
raught:	6 feet
ropulsion:	Steam engine
rmament:	1 9" cannon, 1 32-pounder cannon

CSS Hampton was a wooden gunboat of the Confederate States Navy, one of the few Hampton class gunboats to be built. Hampton was built at Norfolk Navy Yard in 1862 and based there until May 1862, when the yard was abandoned and the fleet moved up the James River. With Lieutenant John Herndon Maury, CSN, in command, Hampton participated in significant river actions including the battle at Dutch Gap on August 13, 1864; operations against Fort Harrison on September 29-October 1; and the engagement at Chaffin's Bluff on October 22. Hampton was burned by the Confederates as they evacuated Richmond, Virginia on April 3, 1865. Hampton

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