CSS Teaser

For other ships with the same name, see USS Teaser.

The Teaser on repairs after capture.
History
Confederate States
Name	Teaser
Operator	Confederate States Navy
Commissioned	1861
Fate	Captured 4 July 1862
United States
Name	Teaser
Operator	Union Navy
Acquired	4 July 1862
Commissioned	1862
Decommissioned	2 June 1865
Fate	Sold into merchant service at auction 25 June 1865
General characteristics
Displacement	64 tons
Length	80 ft (24 m)
Beam	18 ft (5.5 m)
Propulsion	Steam engine
Complement	25 officers and men
Armament	1 × 32-pounder rifled cannon 1 × 12-pounder rifled cannon

CSS Teaser in combat with USS Maratanza, July 4, 1862.

12-pounder on the bow

Deck detail

6.4-inch banded rifle, the stern pivot mount on the CSS Teaser. These guns were made by banding and rifling the 32-pounder smoothbore. This image is from the Library of Congress.

CSS Teaser had been the aging Georgetown, D.C. tugboat York River until the beginning of the American Civil War, when she was taken into the Confederate States Navy and took part in the famous Battle of Hampton Roads. Later, she was captured by the United States Navy and became the first USS Teaser.

The CSS Robert E. Lee in the image is confused as the CSS Teaser.