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Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 46: (search)
he distance of the vessels at the time of the capture, as it was probable we should be called upon to give our evidence respecting the affair, and we took a note of the time it occurred. Statement of John Roe. I was, yesterday, the 5th day of August, 1863, returning from a whale chase in Hunt's Bay, when I first saw the bark Sea-Bride standing from the westward, on to the land. I came on to Table Bay, and when off Camp's Bay, I saw the smoke of the Alabama, some distance from the westwardint, and about four and a half from the western point of Robben Island. This was their position—being near each other—when the gun was fired. Statement of the signal-man at the Lion's Rump telegraph station. On Wednesday last, the 5th day of August, 1863, I sighted the bark Sea-Bride, about seven o'clock in the morning, about fifteen or twenty miles off the land, standing into Table Bay from the south-west. There was a light breeze blowing from the north-west, which continued until mid-d