USS/CSS Water Witch Project
The museum finished constructing a full scale reproduction of the USS/CSS Water Witch, in 2009 using her original plan drawings. At more than 160 feet (49 m) in length, the ship will become a new landmark in Columbus. The masts will be nearly 90 feet (27 m) tall and plans call for the ship's massive side paddle wheels to actively turn and for smoke to billow from the smokestack.
The original Water Witch was stationed as a Union blockader in Savannah, Georgia during the war and was captured during a Confederate Navy commando raid in 1864 and put into service for the Confederacy. The story of the Water Witch is compelling because she served the navies of both sides during the course of the war, and also because her capture was led in-part by an African-American Confederate pilot, Moses Dallas.
Read more about this topic: National Civil War Naval Museum At Port Columbus
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