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| Ship name = ''Phoenix''
| Ship namesake = [[Phoenix (mythology)|Phoenix]]
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'''CSS  ''Phoenix''''' was a [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] [[ironclad]] floating [[artillery battery|battery]] built at [[Selma, Alabama]], from 1863–64.<ref name="dictnaval">{{cite web |url=http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/cfa7/phoenix.htm |title=Phoenix |date=September 24, 2011 |work=Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships |publisher=United States Navy }}</ref>

==Huntsville==
''Phoenix'' was built at the [[Selma, Alabama in the American Civil War|Confederate Naval Works at Selma]] in 1863 and launched in March 1864.  She was severely damaged during the launching and subsequently could not be used as a warship.  She was brought to [[Mobile, Alabama|Mobile]] and scuttled by Confederate forces at the [[Dog River (Alabama)|Dog River]] Bar in [[Mobile Bay]] on August 7, 1864.  She was blown up a few nights later by Union sailors from the {{USS|Metacomet|1863|6}}.  The Confederates then burned her to the waterline.  The wreck was located in 1985 and was determined to be well preserved.<ref>{{cite book |title=Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks |last=Gaines |first=W. Craig |year=2008 |publisher=LSU Press |isbn=978-0-8071-3274-6 |pages=1–8 }}</ref>

==References==
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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}}

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