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The Daily Dispatch: March 7, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
500 horse power each. Mr. Peter Denny, of Dumbarton, has constructed two fine screw steamers. They are lying in the Clyde. Report of a somewhat authentic kind says one of them is partly owned by "the Chinese," and partly by individuals at Nassau, New Providence. It is publicly announced that she is soon to be employed between Nassau and Charleston. The term "Chinese" is in general use in the building yards of the Clyde and the Mersey to designate the Confederates, and the "Emperor of CNassau and Charleston. The term "Chinese" is in general use in the building yards of the Clyde and the Mersey to designate the Confederates, and the "Emperor of China" has no other signification in this connection than to personify Jefferson Davis. The Messrs Scott, of Greenock, are completing a very fine iron screw steamer, which is alleged to be intended for the trade between Charleston and Savannah. Two weeks ago a fine vessel, of the same class as the Virginia, was launched from Messrs. Blackwood's yard at Port Glasgow, and common report says she is intended for the Chinese. Upwards of fifty steam vessels, of various descriptions, in d
The Daily Dispatch: March 7, 1863., [Electronic resource], The cruise of the Florida. (search)
The cruise of the Florida. --The Nassau correspondent of the Charleston Courier, under date February 9, gives the following account of the cruise of the Florida up to the day of her leaving that port: The Confederate war steamer Florida, Captain Maffitt, sailed into the harbor of Nassau, after obtaining permission of tNassau, after obtaining permission of the authorities, to coal for twenty-four hours. It was a cheering sight — the Confederate stars and bars floating over Confederate cannon in a foreign port. Captain Maffitt and the officers of the Florida came ashore and were agreeably entertained by the resident Southerners and many of the citizens. The Florida left Mobile Bay o war vessels were completely "bamboozled," and three Yankee merchantmen, valued with their cargoes at not less than $300,000, were destroyed, the Florida ran into Nassau. She remained exactly twenty-four hours, and then steamed away upon her mission of devastation. All on board were well and in fine spirits. Capt. Maffitt has c