CSS Bombshell — believed to have been an Erie Canal steamer — was a U.S. Army transport.

Bombshell was sunk by the Confederate batteries in Albemarle Sound, North Carolina on April 18, 1864.

She was raised by the Confederate forces and taken into the Confederate States Navy under the command of Lieutenant Albert Gallatin Hudgins, CSN.

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.

This article about a specific ship related to the American Civil War is a stub.