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{{Short description|Confederate States Navy ironclad}} {{Other ships|USS Albemarle|HMS Albemarle}} {{More footnotes needed|date=August 2012}} {|{{Infobox ship begin}} {{Infobox ship image |Ship image=CSS Albemarle.jpg |image alt= |Ship caption=A drawing of ''Albemarle'' }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=Confederate States |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|Confederate States of America|naval}} |Ship name=''Albemarle'' |Ship namesake=[[Albemarle Sound]] |Ship owner= |Ship operator= |Ship registry= |Ship route= |Ship ordered=16 April 1862 |Ship awarded= |Ship builder= |Ship original cost= |Ship yard number= |Ship way number= |Ship laid down=January 1863 |Ship launched= |Ship sponsor= |Ship christened= |Ship completed= |Ship acquired= |Ship commissioned=17 April 1864 |Ship recommissioned= |Ship decommissioned= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship motto= |Ship nickname= |Ship captured= |Ship fate=27 October 1864 sunk by [[spar torpedo]], captured, raised, and sold }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class= |Ship type= |Ship tonnage= |Ship displacement=376 tons |Ship tons burthen= |Ship length={{convert|158|ft|m|abbr=on}} |Ship beam={{convert|35.4|ft|m|abbr=on}} |Ship height= |Ship draught={{convert|9|ft|m|abbr=on}} |Ship draft= |Ship depth= |Ship hold depth= |Ship power= |Ship propulsion=Steam |Ship speed={{convert|4|kn}} |Ship range=120 miles, 193 km |Ship endurance= |Ship complement=150 officers and men |Ship crew= |Ship armament=two 6.4 [[John Mercer Brooke|Brooke]] double-banded rifles |Ship armor= |Ship notes= }} |} '''CSS ''Albemarle''''' was a steam-powered [[casemate ironclad]] [[Naval ram#Steam rams|ram]] of the [[Confederate Navy]] (and later the second ''Albemarle'' of the [[United States Navy]]), named for an [[Albemarle Sound|estuary]] in [[North Carolina]] which was named for [[General officer|General]] [[George Monck]], the first [[Duke of Albemarle]] and one of the original Carolina [[Lords Proprietor]].
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