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Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 48: (search)
e Dutch ship, like the last one we had boarded, was from Batavia, and corroborated the report of the presence of the Wyoming in these waters. She had left her at Batavia, which is a short distance only from the Strait of Sunda. The weather had now become exceedingly oppressive. Notwithstanding the almost constant rains, the heat was intense. On the morning of the 6th of November, we boarded an English ship, from Foo Chow for London, which informed us, that an American ship, called the Winged Racer, had come out of the Strait, in company with her. In the afternoon, two ships having been cried from aloft, we got up steam, and chased, hoping that one of them might prove to be the American ship reported. They were both English; but whilst we were chasing these two English ships, a third ship hove in sight, farther to windward, to which we gave chase in turn. This last ship was to be our first prize in East-Indian waters. A gun brought the welcome stars and stripes to her peak, and
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 49: (search)
We at once gave chase, and in a very few minutes hove the stranger to with a gun. It was the Winged Racer, which our English friend told us had passed out of the Strait some days before in his companfallen into the power of her enemy, with no friendly gun from the Wyoming to protect her. The Winged Racer was a perfect beauty —one of those New York ships of superb model, with taunt, graceful mastsusing scene was now to occur. The boatmen had no suspicion that the Alabama had captured the Winged Racer, and was about to destroy her. They were lying on their oars, or holding on to lines from the two ships, with the most perfect insouciance. Presently a flame leaped up on board the Winged Racer, and in a few minutes enveloped her. Terror at once took possession of the Malay boatmen, and such een that the Wyo ming was at Anger in the Strait of Sunda, only two days before we burned the Winged Racer. She must have heard of that event soon after its occurrence, and also of our burning the Con
The Daily Dispatch: May 17, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
in him as soon as the troops were up." Maj Gen Gillmore holds the entrenchments, while Maj Gen Smith demonstrates upon Drewry and the enemy's lines. Gen Kantz and his cavalry have been sent to cut the Danville Railroad near the Appomattox Station, and perhaps to advance on the James river. Miscellaneous. The Alabama put into Table Bay, March 20, for coals and other supplies. The total number of ships destroyed and captured in the Indian Seas had been seven: The Amanda, Winged Racer, Contest, Martaban, (or Texas Star,) Senara, Highlander, and Emma Jane; but Capt Semmes reckoned the damage indirectly done to the Federal commerce by his cruise in the Indian Seas as equivalent to $15,000,000. As the presence of the Alabama had caused such a panic, great numbers of the Federal ships lay in Singapore and other harbors for more than three months, unable to get freight, and afraid to venture out to sea. The Alabama was expected to remain in Table Bay for three or four days.