Editing CSS Baltic (section)

{{Short description|Ironclad of the Confederate States Navy}}
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| Ship image = CSSBaltic.jpg
| Ship caption = Contemporary engraving of the vessel.  The accuracy of the image is not known.{{sfn|Bisbee|2018|p=56}}
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| Ship country = [[Confederate States of America|Confederate States]]
| Ship flag = {{shipboxflag|Confederate States of America|naval}}
| Ship name = ''Baltic''
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| Ship launched = 1860
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| Ship commissioned = May 1862
| Ship decommissioned = July 1864
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| Ship captured = May 10, 1865
| Ship fate = Sold, December 31, 1865
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| Ship type = [[Casemate ironclad]]
| Ship tonnage = 624
| Ship length = {{convert|186|ft|m|abbr=on|1}} ([[o/a]])
| Ship beam = {{convert|38|ft|m|abbr=on|1}}
| Ship draft = {{cvt|6|to|7|ft|m|abbr=on|1}}
| Ship power = 4 × horizontal [[return-flue boiler]]s
| Ship propulsion = 2 × [[Marine steam engine|steam engines]]
| Ship speed = {{convert|5|kn|lk=in}}
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| Ship complement = 86 officers and men
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| Ship armament = 2 × [[Dahlgren gun]]s, 2 × [[32-pounder gun|32-pounders]], 2 × smaller pieces
| Ship armor = {{cvt|2.5|in}}
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'''CSS{{efn|"Confederate States Ship"{{sfn|Silverstone|1989|p=xiii}}}} ''Baltic''''' was an [[ironclad warship]] that served in the [[Confederate States Navy]] during the [[American Civil War]]. A [[towboat]] before the war, she was purchased by the state of [[Alabama]] in December 1861 for conversion into an ironclad.  After being transferred to the Confederate Navy in May 1862 as an ironclad, she served on [[Mobile Bay]] off the [[Gulf of Mexico]].  ''Baltic''{{'}}s condition in Confederate service was such that naval historian [[William N. Still Jr.]] has described her as "a nondescript vessel in many ways".{{sfn|Still|1985|p=80}}  Over the next two years, parts of the ship's wooden structure were affected by wood rot. Her armor was removed to be put onto the ironclad [[CSS Nashville (1864)|CSS ''Nashville'']] in 1864.  By that August, ''Baltic'' had been [[ship commissioning|decommissioned]]. Near the end of the war, she was taken up the [[Tombigbee River]], where she was captured by [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] forces on May 10, 1865.  An inspection of ''Baltic'' the next month found that her upper [[hull (watercraft)|hull]] and deck were rotten and that her boilers were unsafe.  She was sold on December 31, and was likely [[ship breaking|broken up]] in 1866.