CSS McRae

Sunk

Type	Gunboat
War	American Civil War
Main guns	1 × 9″ gun

Badly holed below New Orleans, her captain mortally wounded. Sank at her moorings soon after.

CSS McRae in New Orleans, 1861. Former Mexican naval vessel, the Marquis de la Habana seized as a pirate in 1860. Refitted as a 830 ton steam sloop for commerce raiding, armed with one 9 inch pivot gun and six 32 pounders, by Naval Secretary Stephen Mallory. Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

One 9 in (229 mm) smoothbore, six 32-pounder smoothbores, one 6-pounder rifle

Armour

None

Commissioned	March 1861
Displacement	Approx. 680 tons

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Commissioned

March 1861

Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip

Damaged

18–28 April 1862

Captain mortally wounded

Fate

Sunk

Scuttled 28 April 1862