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{|{{Infobox Ship Begin}} {{Infobox Ship Image |Ship image= |Ship caption= }} {{Infobox Ship Career |Hide header= |Ship country= |Ship flag=[[Image:Conf Navy Jack (light blue).svg|52px|Confederate Navy Jack]] [[File:Confederate States Naval Ensign after May 26 1863.svg|52px|Confederate Navy Jack]] |Ship name=CSS ''Clarence'' |Ship namesake= |Ship owner= |Ship operator= |Ship registry= |Ship route= |Ship ordered= |Ship awarded= |Ship builder= |Ship original cost= |Ship yard number= |Ship way number= |Ship laid down= |Ship launched=1857 |Ship sponsor= |Ship christened= |Ship completed= |Ship acquired= |Ship commissioned= |Ship recommissioned= |Ship decommissioned= |Ship maiden voyage= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship renamed= |Ship reclassified= |Ship refit= |Ship struck= |Ship reinstated= |Ship homeport= |Ship identification= |Ship motto= |Ship nickname= |Ship honours= |Ship honors= |Ship captured=May 6, 1863 by the [[CSS Florida|CSS ''Florida'']] and converted to the CSN |Ship fate=Burned to prevent capture on June 12, 1863 |Ship status= |Ship notes= |Ship badge= }} {{Infobox Ship Characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class= |Ship type= |Ship tonnage= |Ship displacement= |Ship tons burthen= |Ship length={{convert|114|ft|m|abbr=on}} |Ship beam={{convert|24|ft|m|abbr=on}} |Ship height= |Ship draught= |Ship draft={{convert|11|ft|m|abbr=on}} |Ship depth= |Ship hold depth= |Ship decks= |Ship deck clearance= |Ship ramps= |Ship ice class= |Ship power= |Ship propulsion= |Ship sail plan= |Ship speed= |Ship range= |Ship endurance= |Ship test depth= |Ship boats= |Ship capacity= |Ship troops= |Ship complement=4 officers, 17 men |Ship crew= |Ship time to activate= |Ship sensors= |Ship EW= |Ship armament=1 6-pounder boat [[howitzer]], several [[Quaker Gun|Quaker guns]] |Ship armour= |Ship armor= |Ship aircraft= |Ship aircraft facilities= |Ship notes= }} |} '''CSS ''Clarence''''', also known as ''Coquette'', was originally a [[brig]] from [[Baltimore]] captured by the [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] cruiser [[CSS Florida (blockade runner)|CSS ''Florida'']] during the [[American Civil War]] and converted into a Confederate [[cruiser]] for [[commerce raiding]]. Built in 1857 for [[Baltimore, Maryland]] fruit dealer J. Crosby, it was transporting a cargo of coffee from [[Rio de Janeiro, Brazil]], to Baltimore when the CSS ''Florida'' captured the ''Clarence'' off the coast of [[Brazil]]. Lt. [[Charles Read|Charles W. Read]] was appointed commander and a sufficient number of the ''Florida''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s crew were transferred to the new cruiser to man the ship.<ref name="danfs">{{DANFS}}</ref> Lieutenant Read had requested that, rather than burn ''Clarence'', he might try, with the ship's papers, to sail into [[Hampton Roads, Virginia]], and if possible destroy or capture a Union [[gunboat]] and burn Union merchant vessels congregated at [[Fortress Monroe]]. ''Florida''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Commander [[John Newland Maffitt]] armed ''Clarence'' with one gun so that Read might capture prizes on his way to Hampton Roads.<ref name="danfs" /> In its brief career as a Confederate cruiser it captured a number of ships: The ''Whistling Wind'', ''Kate Stewart'', ''Mary Alvina'', ''Mary Schindler'' were burned, and the ''Alfred H. Partridge'' was bonded. Its final capture was the [[barque|bark]] [[CSS Tacony|''Tacony'']] on June 12, 1863, which being a better ship suited for [[commerce raiding]], the crew and armaments were transferred to it and the ''Clarence'' was destroyed.<ref name="scharf">{{cite book | title=History of the Confederate States Navy: From the Organization to the Surrender of Its Last Vessel|publisher=Gramercy Books | location=New York, NY | year=1996 | author=J. Thomas Scharf | isbn=0-517-18336-6}}</ref> == Officers and crew == * Lt. [[Charles Read|Charles W. Read]], commander<ref name="scharf" /> * Billups, Matthewson, and Pride, master's mates<ref name="scharf" /> * Brown, engineer<ref name="scharf" /> * 16 men<ref name="scharf" /> == Notes and references == <references /> {{CSN cruisers}} [[Category:Naval ships of the Confederate States of America|Clarence]] [[Category:Raids in the American Civil War]] [[Category:1857 ships]] {{mil-ship-stub}} {{AmericanCivilWar-stub}}
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