Battle of Mobile Bay

5 August 1864, Entrance to Mobile Bay, Alabama

Union victory

Farragut led his fleet past Fort Morgan into Mobile Bay, the wooden ships lashed in pairs and the monitors alongside. The leading monitor Tecumseh hit a mine and sank in minutes, and the column faltered; Farragut took Hartford through the minefield, the moment remembered as "Damn the torpedoes!". Inside the bay the ironclad Tennessee fought the whole fleet alone until she was battered into surrender.

United States Navy

18 ships, 1 lost

Ship	Type	Outcome
USS Hartford Farragut's flagship	Sloop	Survived
USS Brooklyn	Sloop	Survived
USS Richmond	Sloop	Survived
USS Lackawanna	Sloop	Survived
USS Monongahela	Sloop	Survived
USS Ossipee	Sloop	Survived
USS Oneida	Sloop	Damaged
USS Tecumseh Mined; 93 lost	Monitor Canonicus class	Sunk
USS Manhattan	Monitor Canonicus class	Survived
USS Winnebago	Monitor Milwaukee class	Survived
USS Chickasaw	Monitor Milwaukee class	Survived

Flotillas and other craft	Number	Lost
Consorts lashed alongside Metacomet, Port Royal, Octorara, Seminole, Kennebec, Itasca and Galena, each lashed to the unengaged side of a larger ship.	7	0

Flotillas and other craft

Number

Lost

Consorts lashed alongside

Metacomet, Port Royal, Octorara, Seminole, Kennebec, Itasca and Galena, each lashed to the unengaged side of a larger ship.

Confederate States Navy

4 ships, 3 lost

Ship	Type	Outcome
CSS Tennessee Buchanan's flagship	Ironclad	Captured
CSS Selma	Gunboat	Captured
CSS Gaines	Gunboat	Scuttled
CSS Morgan	Gunboat	Escaped

Map

Farragut enters Mobile Bay 5 August 1864