Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: May 5, 1863., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for James Spence or search for James Spence in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

The Daily Dispatch: May 5, 1863., [Electronic resource], Seizure of a Confederate gunboat at Liverpool.--a shipyard under Surveilllance. (search)
of the Customs Surveyors, went on board the Alexandria--that being, like "290," the first christening of the gunboat, as no doubt had she got clear off she would have undergone a rechristening — and took possession of her. The Alexandria is a wooden screw steamer of about one hundred and twenty tons, and a very fine model. She was built by Messrs. Miller & Co., of the South End, for Messrs. Frazer, Trenholm & Co., of Liverpool, the 'depositaries' in Liverpool (in conjunction with Mr. James Spence) of the Confederate Government. At the time the vessel was seized she was lying in the Toxteth dock, a quiet, out of the way place. An iron ship-building firm, near the builders of the Alexandria, have a large iron gunboat, of about twelve hundred tons, on the stocks for the Confederate Government; but it is now stated that our Government has issued instructions to the officials here that in all cases where there is the slightest suspicion that ships are being built here for other