Bombshell

 

(Str: l. 90'; dr. 3'6"; cpl. 37; a. 3 how., 1 20-pdr.)

 

Bombshell—believed to have been an Erie Canal steamer—-as a U.S. Army transport was sunk by the Confederate batteries in Albemarle Sound, N.C., on 18 April 1864. She was raised by the Confederate forces and taken into their navy under the command of Lt. A. G. Hudgins, CSN. Bombshell was recaptured in Albemarle Sound by Mattabesett and Sassacus on 5 May 1864 and sent to New York.