From "The Day the Johnboat Went Up to the Mountains: Stories From my Twenty Years in South Carolina Maritime Archaeology" by Carl Naylor.
Civil War Receiving Ships
Receiving ships functioned as barracks for transient sailors, as "boot camps" for training new sailors and headquarters for other functions. Invariably older vessels, no longer useful as warships and no longer seaworthy became receiving ships.
The next stop generally for these ships was scrapping.
Confederate receiving Ships:
CSS United States at Norfolk
CSS Arctic at Wilmington
CSS Indian Chief at Charleston
CSS Sampson at Savannah
CSS Dalman at Mobile
CSS St. Philip at New Orleans
--Old B-R'er
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