USS Tennessee (SS. Tennessee)

From Wikipedia.

It is listed under its last name, SS Republic, in Wikipedia.

SS Republic was a sidewheel steamship, originally named the SS Tennessee, then the CSS Tennessee, then the USS Tennessee and the USS Mobile.  (Not to be confused with the ironclad CSS Tennessee which served in the Union navy after its capture as the USS Tennessee.)

It was lost as the SS Republic off the coast of Savannah, Georgia in a hurricane in October 1865.Built in Baltimore in 1853 for the Baltimore and Southern Steam Packet Company.  It sailed between Baltimore and Charleston, S.C.   It later made a trans-Atlantic trip and later had the first regular passenger service between New York City and Central America.

--Old B-R'er