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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book VII:—politics. (search)
ize on the high seas, the mere fact of their sale does not constitute an act of hostility. Their chief, concern, however, was the fitting out of ships of war. The magnificent shipyards of Messrs. Laird at Birkenhead, and the cannon-factory of Mr. Blakeley in London, were open to their orders; the banking-house of Messrs. Fraser and Trenholm assumed the agency of their financial operations; and the task of superintending the construction and armament of the vessels which were to display the Confhe had an engine of three hundred horse power, with a condenser for supplying fresh water; she was, moreover, an excellent sailer, while her speed under steam averaged ten knots an hour. Her armament consisted of six thirty-two pounders, one of Blakeley's one-hundred-pounder pivot-guns, and one eight-inch howitzer. The complement of her crew was one hundred and twenty men and twenty-four officers. Owing to the reputation she soon acquired, she was able to make up this complement by means of n