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The South might have launched a winning navy, if only ...(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: R. Kevin Dietrich
``Confederate Shipbuilding'' by William N. Still Jr.; University of South Carolina Press ($24.95)
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Shortages of raw materials and skilled labor, inadequate transportation and the loss of significant ship-construction areas such as Norfolk, New Orleans and Pensacola all helped sink Confederate shipbuilding efforts.
Like many other aspects of the Confederate effort, shipbuilding was hindered by the region's predominantly agricultural focus, but the South's bid to build a navy from scratch wasn't without its successes.
Between 1861 and 1865, at least 50 warships were converted or built in the South _ no small feat for a nation that essentially started with no navy, according to William N. Still Jr.'s slender tome, "Confederate Shipbuilding."
Among the successes, the CSS Virginia, which locked horns with the Monitor in Hampton Roads in 1862; the Hunley, the first submarine to claim a surface vessel when it sank the Housatonic in Charleston Harbor in 1864; and the ironclads Chicora and Charleston, which defended Charleston.
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