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Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 56: commerce-destroyers.-their inception, remarkable career, and ending. (search)
r with Great Britain than to have submitted longer to open violations of neutrality, for the former had little commerce to lose and could have swept the trade of the latter from the ocean. When Mr. Adams heard that the Georgia was sold to a British merchant, he informed Commodore Thomas T. Craven, then in command of the U. S. S. Niagara, lying in the port of Antwerp, that he must endeavor to intercept and capture the converted Confederate. The Georgia was captured by Commodore Craven off Lisbon, was sent to Boston and condemned by the Admiralty Court, her alleged owner never receiving a penny of the £ 15,000 he had paid into the Confederate treasury as the price of the vessel. The fate of the Nashville has already been mentioned. In January and February, 1863, several attempts were made to destroy her as she lay above Fort McAllister, on the Great Ogeechee River. On the 27th of February, 1863, she was set on fire and blown up by shells from the Monitor Montauk, Commander John
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 57: the ram Stonewall. (search)
built, sold to the Danish authorities, and repurchased by the Confederate government. the ram in commission. the Federal vessels-of-war Niagara and Sacramento blockaded in the port of Corunna. actions of Commodore Craven. the ram proceeds to Lisbon. Commodore Craven court-martialed and sentenced. the Secretary of the Navy censures the court, and the proceedings set aside. Commodore Craven restored to duty. the ram ends her career at Havana, and is finally surrendered to the United Statefollowed by any gallant results. There was great excitement in the Navy Department on hearing the conclusion the commander of the Niagara had reached in regard to the Stonewall, and that, in consequence, the Confederate vessel had proceeded to Lisbon, coaled, and continued on her way toward the coast of the United States, without being followed further than that place. The several squadrons on the coast were warned that this formidable vessel was about to attack them, and directed to keep a