CSS Columbia was an ironclad steamer ram in the Confederate States Navy and later in the United States Navy. As CSS Columbia Columbia was built at Charleston, South Carolina in 1864 to a design by John L. Porter. She was launched in March 1864 and entered service later in that year. When the Union forces took possession of Charleston on 18 February 1865, they found Columbia near Fort Moultrie; she had run on a sunken wreck and been damaged on 12 January 1865. The ironclad already had her cannon and some armor plating removed; ship-worms were already at work boring into her wooden hull. As USS Columbia She was raised on 26 April and was towed by to Hampton Roads, Virginia, where she arrived 25 May 1865. Columbia was drydocked on 5 June and repairs were begun, but on 15 June, she was decommissioned and placed in ordinary. Her hulk was later sold for scrapping on 10 October 1867. References Ironclad warships of the Confederate States Navy Ships built in Charleston, South Carolina 1864 ships Captured ships Shipwrecks of the American Civil War Shipwrecks of the Carolina coast Maritime incidents in January 1865