CSS Sea Bird was built at Keyport, New Jersey in 1854, was purchased by North Carolina at Norfolk, Virginia in 1861 and fitted for service with the Confederate States Navy. She was assigned to duty along the Virginia and North Carolina coasts with Lieutenant Patrick McCarrick, CSN, in command.
This model of the CSS Sea Bird is a 1/600 scale Confederate side-wheel steamer in the Confederate States Navy. She had 1 32-pounder smoothbore cannon, 1 30-pounder rifled cannon. She was 133’ long x 21’ in beam, displaced about 202 tons, had a maximum speed of about 7 kts and about 42 crew.