board of inquiry. The Confederates wasted little time putting the captured Union vessels to use. While patrolling the Tennessee River on 2 November, Key West and engaged Undine and Venus. Venus was retaken, but Undine escaped, badly damaged, to the protection of Confederate batteries at Reynoldsburg Island. There, she was burned by the Confederates on 4 November to prevent her recapture by Union gunboats attacking the island. Post Civil War After the Civil War, the hulk of Undine was one of several in the Tennessee River ordered raised or wrecked on 20 June 1865. Two 24 pounder howitzers were recovered from the vessel later that month. In 2000, a group called "Raise the Gunboats" in Benton County, Tennessee attempted to salvage the remaining portions of the Undine. The group has had mixed success, with some artifacts from the gunboat recovered as well as a derrick boat from the turn of the century. See also Union Navy Anaconda Plan Mississippi Squadron References Ships of the Union Navy Ships built in Cincinnati Steamships of the United States Navy Gunboats of the United States Navy American Civil War patrol vessels of the United States Ohio in the American Civil War 1863 ships Shipwrecks of the American Civil War Shipwrecks in rivers Shipwrecks of the Mississippi River Maritime incidents in July 1864