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{{Short description|Ironclad gunboat built by the Confederate States Navy in 1863}}
{{For|similarly named ships, the southern U.S. state of North Carolina, and other uses|North Carolina (disambiguation)}}
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'''CSS ''North Carolina''''' was a [[casemate ironclad]] built for the [[Confederate Navy]] in 1863 during the [[American Civil War]] by Berry & Brothers at [[Wilmington, North Carolina]] at a cost of $76,000. She was placed in commission during the latter part of the year with [[Commander]] [[W. T. Muse]], [[Confederate States Navy|CSN]], in command.

The ironclad's bulkheads above the waterline were sloped inward at a 30-degree angle and were armored with four inches of railroad iron, similar to the armor used on {{ship|CSS|Virginia II}}. There were two shuttered gun ports on each of her four casemate sides, and she carried six 8-inch cannons that could be rolled on their carriages from one port to another; she mounted one heavy [[pivot gun|pivot-rifle]] in the bow cannon position.

''North Carolina'' was discovered to be structurally unsound and unsuitable for use on the open ocean; her hull had become riddled with [[shipworm]] as a result of the green hull timber used for her construction. She remained in the [[Cape Fear River]], where she had developed bad leaks, until she finally foundered on 27 September 1864, just off Smithville (modern [[Southport, North Carolina|Southport]]); she was serving there as a guard ship.

Her sister ship {{ship|CSS|Raleigh|1864|6}} was also a hard-luck ironclad. After serving in the Confederate Navy for just one week, ''Raleigh'' ran heavily aground on a sandbar called "the Rip." Her tonnage bore down heavily on the ship's unsupported aft keel, the pressure finally "breaking her back," as the tide receded; the ironclad was declared a total loss and her cannon, iron armor, and steam power plant were salvaged.

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===Bibliography===
* {{cite book |last1=Bisbee |first1=Saxon T. |title=Engines of Rebellion: Confederate Ironclads and Steam Engineering in the American Civil War |publisher=University of Alabama Press |location=Tuscaloosa, Alabama |isbn=978-0-81731-986-1|date=2018}}
* {{cite book |last1=Canney |first1=Donald L. |title=The Confederate Steam Navy 1861-1865 |date=2015 |publisher=Schiffer Publishing|location=Atglen, Pennsylvania |isbn=978-0-7643-4824-2}}
* {{cite book|last=Silverstone|first=Paul H.|title=Civil War Navies 1855–1883 |publisher=Routledge |location=New York|year=2006|series=The U.S. Navy Warship Series |isbn=0-415-97870-X}}
* {{cite book|last=Silverstone|first=Paul H.|title=Directory of the World's Capital Ships |year=1984 |publisher=Hippocrene Books|location=New York|isbn=0-88254-979-0}}
* {{cite book|last=Still|first=William N. Jr.|title=Iron Afloat: The Story of the Confederate Armorclads|isbn=0-87249-454-3|orig-date=1971|year=1985|publisher=University of South Carolina Press|location=Columbia, South Carolina}}

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[[Category:Ironclad warships of the Confederate States Navy]]
[[Category:Shipwrecks in rivers]]
[[Category:Shipwrecks of the Carolina coast]]
[[Category:Shipwrecks of the American Civil War]]
[[Category:Ships built in Wilmington, North Carolina]]
[[Category:1863 ships]]
[[Category:Maritime incidents in September 1864]]

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