...brated confederate cruiser. The Kearsarge was then described as likely to prove a formidable overmatch for the Alabama, having higher steam-power and rate of speed, a crew nearly double that under Captain Semmes , and, unlike her sister ship, the Tuscarora, carrying ten, instead of eight, very heavy eleven-inch shell guns, the so-called columbiads of the American navy. The Alabama, on the contray, is stated...