Confederate States Navy

The C.S. Navy is the naval branch of the military of the Confederate States. It is very much the Confederacy's junior service, and is often underfunded even in times of budget surpluses. However, unlike the C.S. Army, it has its own official academy in Mobile, Alabama.

In the Atlantic Ocean, the Confederate Navy traditionally relied on British warships, as it had ever since the British broke the US blockade in 1862 at the end of the War of Secession. In the Pacific, despite President James Longstreet's aspiration to make the CS a Pacific power by acquiring the port city of Guaymas, Sonora from Mexico in 1881, the Confederate fleet has never been much of a power.

In the Great War, the Confederate surface fleet did fairly poorly against the U.S. Navy, though its submarine fleet had better success. At the end of the war, US President Theodore Roosevelt imposed severe arms restrictions on the C.S. Navy, and, while Jake Featherston eventually found ways to subvert the Army's arms restrictions, the Navy was always a much lower priority. In the Second Great War, the CS surface fleet scored only one major victory, at Bermuda; and even there, the British did most of the work, and the Confederates saw little serious action. In 1943, when the US retook Bermuda, the British conducted the naval defense of the islands exclusively.

Also in the Second Great War, Confederate submarines were little more than a nuisance for US ships, and the CS Navy did not have a single aircraft carrier.