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Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 32: (search)
quainted with the officers of that ship, and if, after the fashion of the sailor, he has formed a liking for any of them, he will naturally be inclined to know what became of such of them as did not follow me to the Alabama. Of the lieutenants, only one of my old set followed me. Accident separated the rest from me, very much to my regret, and we afterward played different roles in the war. The reader has not forgotten Chapman, the second officer of the Sumter, who made such a sensation in Cienfuegos, among the fair sex, and who slept in such a sweet pair of sheets at the house of his friend, that he dreamed of them for weeks afterward. Chapman finished the cruise in the Sumter, serving everybody else pretty much as he served the Cienfuegos people, whenever he chanced to get ashore. He was always as ready to tread one measure—take one cup of wine, with a friend, as to hurl defiance at an enemy. He carried the garrison mess at Gibraltar by storm. There was no dinner-party without hi
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 41: (search)
ft. Flying like a sea-gull before a gale only a moment before, she became, in an instant, like the same sea-gull with its wings folded, and riding upon the wave, without other motion than such as the wave gave it. Ranging within a convenient distance, we lowered, and sent a boat on board of her. She proved to be American, as we had suspected. She was the Chastelaine of Boston, last from the island of Guadeloupe, whither she had been to deliver a cargo of staves, and was now on her way to Cienfuegos, in the island of Cuba, in quest of sugar and rum for the Boston folks. We applied the torch to her, lighting up the sea-girt walls of Alta Vela with the unusual spectacle of a burning ship, and disturbing the slumber of the sea-gulls and gannets for the balance of the night. The next morning found us still steaming to the eastward, along the Haytian coast. Having now the crews of two ships on board, as prisoners, I hauled in closer to the coast, with the intention of running into the
James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 7: (search)
in her sails, and she gradually dropped astern, having lost the opportunity of destroying, at a single blow, nearly the whole sea-going navy of the Confederacy. When only three days out, the Sumter made her first prize, the bark Golden Rocket, which was burnt. By the 6th of July, or in less than a week after running the blockade, she had captured seven other merchantmen. One of these was ordered to New Orleans with a prize-crew, and was recaptured. The remaining six were taken in to Cienfuegos, where they were afterward released by the Spanish authorities. During the next two months, the Sumter cruised in the Caribbean Sea, and along the coast of South America. She received friendly treatment in the neutral ports which she visited, and was allowed to stay as long as she liked. She coaled without hindrance at Curacao, Trinidad, Paramaribo, and Maranham. Only at Puerto Cabello, in Venezuela, was she required to depart after forty-eight hours. There was no concealment about her
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 16., Medford Memorials. (search)
account of the Pilgrim's career. She sailed from Boston for Hong-Kong, commanded by Capt. Frank Fowle, on February 14, 1874, taking out a cargo of ice, and made the voyage in one hundred and twenty-four days. For several years she was in the East Indian trade. In 1890 she was barque rigged and sold to Daniel Bacon of New York. In 1892, under the command of one supposed to be an efficient navigator, she was wrecked on one of the Bahama Islands while on a voyage from Philadelphia to Cienfuegos, Cuba. Her cargo of coal and the vessel were a total loss, but the captain and crew escaped. It seems somewhat remarkable that of all the Medford-built vessels (numbering about six hundred) not one is now known to be in service; and of the buildings in the many ship-yards but one remains in any form as a relic of an industry once so thriving. A photographic copy of Mr. Woolley's picture of the Pilgrim has been purchased by Mr. Henry Hastings and hung in the Henry Hastings Room (commemo
The Daily Dispatch: November 12, 1860., [Electronic resource], Mutiny on an American ship. (search)
Mutiny on an American ship. --The American bark Champion, Captain Nichols, bound from Cienfuegos to San Juan de los Remedios, put into Havana for officers and provisions. On sailing again, the crew mutinied in sight of the harbor, and the captain, after much deliberation, was compelled to use force to restore them to obedience; in doing so, he shot the cook, who seemed to be the ringleader. Subsequently he returned with his ship to the port and delivered himself and men over to the American Consul, who will send them over to Key West by the U. States ship Crusader, for trial.
The Daily Dispatch: July 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Notice to our Subscribers. (search)
ing that he went thither on no mission for the General Government, nor was he entrusted with any business whatever on its behalf. On the contrary, he obtained a carefully prepared pass from or through Gen. Scott, to enable him to go into the interior of Virginia on his own private business, thus having extended to him the courtesy due to a member of Congress. The Secretary of State has made a reclamation on the Spanish Government for the surrender of the American vessels carried into Cienfuegos by the privateer Sumter, and no doubt is entertained of their immediate release with their cargoes, and of the prohibition of the entrance of Confederate privateers into the West India ports hereafter. It is ascertained that the Spanish proclamation, which has been received here, had not at the time been received in Cuba. The result of inquiries in military quarters this morning is that Fairfax Court-House is not yet occupied by the Federal troops. The Post-Office Department has
The Daily Dispatch: July 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 7 (search)
the bark Louisa Kelham, one of the vessels captured by the Confederate steamer Sumter, writes to the owners that he was captured July 6, the day he sailed from Cienfuegos, with 550 tons of sugar, shipped on Spanish account, and bound for Falmouth, England, for orders. He also states that it is the opinion of the Governor here thr) hold us. We expect to hear from Havana to-day. A letter from Messrs. Calmsac & Bros., at Havana, dated July 10th, says the prizes are now in the port of Cienfuegos, but would not be allowed to remain there. No more American vessels can at present find a charter from this island. Of course this caused a great excitement apositively that the Spanish authorities have ordered the prizes of the Sumter to leave immediately. A letter from the captain of the brig Albert Adams, another of the prizes, dated Cienfuegos, July 7th, evening, states that the Captain General has released all the Sumter's prizes, and that they would sail the next morning.
The Daily Dispatch: July 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Fatal accident. (search)
correspondent at Havana announces the arrival at Cienfuegos of the Sumter, a steamer of the rebel navy, bring condemnation. Moreover, the Sumter sailing from Cienfuegos has doubtless placed herself in the path of the A and burned, her officers and crew were landed at Cienfuegos. She was commanded by Captain French, was 608 to of her capture she was on her way from Havana to Cienfuegos. The bark Louisa Kilham was bound to Falmouth from Cienfuegos, and was commanded by Capt. White. She is 463 tons burthen, is rated A 2, and is owned in B by Capt. Bolger, was also bound to Falmouth from Cienfuegos. She was built at Westerly, Rhode Island, in 185Naiad, when captured, was bound to this city from Cienfuegos. She was commanded by Captain Richardson, was bu Captain Havons, was also bound to this city from Cienfuegos. She is 284 tons, was built in 1855 at Falmouth,he belongs to Boston. Like the Dunning, she left Cienfuegos for this city. The Herald also devotes sever
The Daily Dispatch: August 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], $10 reward. (search)
The privateer Sumter. --The Albany (N. Y.) Journal contains a letter from J. H. Vermilyea, U. S. N., of the U. S. steamer Crusader, which gives the following account of the entrance of the privateer Sumter into Cienfuegos: The Sumter first came in under American colors, and afterwards secession. The fort fired twice before she would come to an anchor outside, and then the Sumter prepared to fight; but four hundred soldiers arrived in the night, and it was not attempted. The men have plenty of money, and it is said five thousand dollars was taken from one of the brigs. We expect to leave to-morrow in search of her.--Her captain says he wants to fall in with us, and that he will blow his ship up before he will be taken. Trinidad, a little below this, is a great place for vessels in the sugar and molasses trade, more so than Havana.
The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
The C. S. Streamer Sumter. --No vessel has rendered more effective service to the Confederate States than the war steamer Sumter. Several of her prizes were at Cienfuegos on the 13th ult., supposed to be waiting for instructions from Madrid as to their disposition. So the report, mentioned in the Havana correspondence of the New York Times, that these vessels had been given up and had sailed for the United States, is false. The Macon citizen is informed by a gentleman on board the Sumter, (now returning from Europe with a supply of arms, etc.,) that trains had been laid and magazines prepared, so that in the event of getting into close quarters with the enemy, with no probability of escape, the vessel will be blown up, and every man on board has determined to share her fate.
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