5/3/2023 0 Comments Yankee ships in pirate waters![]() ![]() US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 58740ĬSS Alabama - "The Pirates Decoy" - Captain Semmes of the Confederate Privateer "Alabama" decoying ships toward him by burningįrom Frank Leslies Illustrated History of the Civil war, circa late 1800's.ĭestruction of a schooner off Cumberland Inlet, Georgia by the boats of CSS Alabama, date unknown. Line engraving published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume II, page 56, depicting CSS Alabama at sea under steam and sail. "The Confederate Privateer Steamer 'Alabama' ('290'), Captain Raphael Semmes - from a photograph taken at Liverpool, where she was built" Representation to consult my avoid the fate which has overtaken the vessels she has already destroyed." Some of them, no doubt, are destined to fall in with her, perhaps on our own coast, and by having this accurate We are happy in publishing this sketch of her to putĪll merchant vessels going to sea, on their guard. This cut is from a photograph in the Navy Department, copies of which are issued to all cruisers. Seaboard in search of Union prey! "New York Tribune" Friday, Octo"We have an accurate portrait of the Rebel steamer ALABAMA, "290." now on a piraticalĬruise in the Atlantic. Woodcut engraving of CSS Alabama with a detailed caption announcing the feared Rebel Cruiser was prowling the Atlantic 1)" (New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, 1912), Benson John Losing, ed. "Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (vol. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 57836, courtesy of the Navy Art Collection, Washington, DC.ĬSS Alabama built by the British, served as a Confederate commerce raider attacking Union ships. Sepia wash drawing by Clary Ray, November 1894 of CSS Alabama underway. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 85593-KM(Color), courtesy of the Navy Art Collection, Washington, DC., Donation of RADM. Schmidt, USN (Retired), 1961, depicting CSS Alabama in chase of a merchant ship. ![]() During her 21-month career CSS Alabama took more than 60 prizes.Kearsarge rescued the majority of Alabama's survivors, but Semmes and 41 others were picked up by the British yacht Deerhound and escaped to England.The ensuing battle with Kearsarge lasted just one hour with Alabama being reduced to a sinking wreck forcing CAPT. ![]()
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