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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 144 (search)
from New-York for San Francisco. On the twenty-third April, burned the bark Henrietta, from Baltimore for Rio Janeiro. The next day (twenty-fourth) burned the ship Oneida, from Shanghae, for New-York, with tea. May sixth, took hermaphrodite brig Clarence, put one twelve-pounder howitzer, twenty men, and two officers on board, and sent her on a cruise. What execution Lieutenant Reed did, I refer you to the papers about. The Tacony was one of her prizes. On the tenth of May we were in Pernambuco; sailed on the twelfth. Next day (May thirteenth) burnt ship Crown Point, another San Francisco packet from New-York. We then went to Seara, where we again coaled, and started for the Northern coast; and on the sixth June burnt ship Southern Cross, from San Francisco, bound to New-York. On the fourteenth June, burnt the ship Red Gauntlet, from Boston to Hong-Kong. From her we also got coals, but they were not good, as we afterward found out. On the sixteenth, took ship B. F. Hoxie, bou
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., chapter 48 (search)
ut any objection from the Governor, yet the Government of Brazil subsequently pretended to be very indignant at the violation of neutrality whereby the Confederate cruiser Florida was taken from one of her ports. There was no end to the indignities heaped upon the United States and its commerce while the Alabama remained at this colony of criminals. Semmes changed his mind about sending his prisoners to the United States, and engaged the master of a Brazilian schooner to convey them to Pernambuco. No feeling of humanity at the sufferings so many persons crowded into a small and filthy vessel must undergo troubled Semmes. The apologist for Wirtz, the Andersonville jailer, did not stick at trifles. The Cory suffered the same fate as the Hatch, Semmes being careful to burn both beyond the marine league, so as not to offend the delicate susceptibilities of the Governor of Fernando de Noronha, and to pay due respect to the Empire of Brazil, the great ally of the Confederacy. On
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Submarine cables. (search)
Gulf of Mexico System8459 ————— Total127,342 Compagnie Francaise des Cables Telegraphiques194,720 Brest (France) to Cape Cod, Mass.13,250 Brest (France) to St. Pierre-Miquelon.12,291 St. Pierre to Cape Cod, Mass.1828 Cape Cod, Mass., to New York1325 Other branch lines2422 ————— Total2511,836 African Direct Telegraph Co82,938 Black Sea Telegraph Co1337 Brazilian Submarine Telegraph Co.: Carcavellos, near Lisbon (Portugal), to Madeira, to St. Vincent (Cape Verde Island), to Pernambuco (Brazil)67,375 Central and South American Telegraph Co157,500 Compagnie Allemande des Cables Telegraphiques11,114 Compania Telegrafico-Telefonica del Plata128 Compania Telegrafico del Rio de la Plata.128 Cuba Submarine Telegraph Co41,049 Direct Spanish Telegraph Co4710 Direct West India Cable Co.: Bermuda-Turk's Island and Turk's Island-Jamaica21,280 Eastern and South African Telegraph Co138,907 Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Co2717,359 Eastern Telegra
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 18: (search)
o make out the well-known and welcome stars and stripes. We hove him to, by hail, and hauling down the false colors, and hoisting our own, we sent a boat on board of him, and captured him. He proved to be the Joseph Parke, of Boston, last from Pernambuco, and six days out, in ballast. The Parke had been unable to procure a return cargo; the merchants of Pernambuco having heard of the arrival of the Sumter, at Maranham, in rather uncomfortable proximity. We transferred the crew of the capturePernambuco having heard of the arrival of the Sumter, at Maranham, in rather uncomfortable proximity. We transferred the crew of the captured vessel to the Sumter, replacing it with a prize crew, and got on board from her such articles of provisions, cordage, and sails as we required; but instead of burning her, we transformed her, for the present, into a scout vessel, to assist us in discovering other prizes. I sent Lieutenant Evans on board to command her, and gave him a couple of midshipmen, as watch officers. The following was his commission:— Sir:—You will take charge of the prize-brig Joseph Parke, and cruise in company
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 42: (search)
a disorderly array of sails whipping and flapping in the wind, and of yards swinging to and fro, presented itself. At last the little craft managed to come to the wind, and make a halt. She proved to be a Portuguese brig, and the crew had been so alarmed, at being chased and fired at, by night, as to lose all presence of mind, and become incapable of any action whatever, until they were somewhat reassured, by the near presence of our ship and the sound of our voices. She was bound from Pernambuco to Lisbon, with a cargo of hides and sugar. It was, indeed, something like a ghost-chase, to see the Alabama coming, in the dead of night after the little craft, with her seven-league boots on, and those awful trysails of hers spread out in the moonlight like so many winding-sheets. On the day after this adventure, a Dutch bark and an English brig came along; and on the same night, we boarded the English four-master, the Sarah Sands, from the East Indies for Falmouth. At daylight, the
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 43: (search)
settlement of Brazil a visit from the Governor's ambassadors a visit to the Governor in return the Aristocracy of the island capture of the Lafayette and the Kate Cory burning of the two last ships, with the Louisa Hatch prisoners sent to Pernambuco the Cloud Ring, and the rainy and dry seasons. Fernando de Noronha lies not a great way from Cape St. Roque in Brazil. It forms the western end of a chain of volcanic islands and deep-sea soundings that extend some distance along the equatdrifted so far, that there was nothing visible except a column of smoke. I afterward changed my determination of converting the Cory into a cartel. A small Brazilian schooner having come into the anchorage, offered to take all my prisoners to Pernambuco, if I would provision them, and give her, besides, a few barrels of pork and flour for her trouble. This I at once consented to do, and the Governor having no objection, the arrangement was forthwith made. I was thus enabled to burn the Gory,
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 44: (search)
g. This I promised to do, and the messenger departed. I found, upon glancing over the article, which filled a couple of columns, that it was a Yankee production done into very good Portuguese—the joint work, probably, of the Yankee Consul at Pernambuco, where the article had originated—for it had been copied into the Bahia paper—and the President of that province. It was written after the style of a proclamation, was signed by the President, and strangely enough addressed to myself—supposed ng, as he alleged, some guns and ammunition covered up in her coal! His Excellency then wanted to see my commission— the gad-fly having buzzed pirate! pirate! To add to the. complication, news now came in that the Florida also had arrived at Pernambuco! Diablo! what was to be done? An aide-de-camp now came off with a letter from his Excellency, telling me, that I had already tarried too long in the port of Bahia, and that he desired me to be off. I wrote him word that I was not ready, a
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
sloping wall is formed of coursed pitching. Its foundations are secured by a double row of strong sheetingpiles driven into the bed of the lake, and a mass of rubble pierres perdues, resting on the toe of the slope. The quay or inner side of the pier is perpendicular, and is sheathed with a row of sheeting-piles, driven at intervals of about five feet apart from center to center, to prevent the wall from being damaged by vessels coming alongside of it. The harbor of the city of Pernambuco, in Brazil, is defended by a natural breakwater, — a reef of hard coral just level with the sea, and extending for miles along the coast, parallel with the main-land and but a very short distance from it, leaving a narrow channel of sufficient depth to float vessels of considerable size between them. Here ships may ride in perfect safety, the water being as smooth as a mill-pond, while the sea is breaking furiously upon the reef, even at times casting its spray on the decks of vessels moor
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
undland, to Sydney, Cape Breton300 1873Heligoland to Cuxhaven, Germany40 1873England to Denmark350 1873France to Denmark450 1873Denmark to Sweden12 1873Pernambuco, Brazil, to Para, Brazil1,080 1873Alexandria, Egypt, to Crete390 1873Candia to Zante240 1873Zante to Otranto, Italy190 1873Alexandria, Egypt, to Brindisi, Italy930 1874Lisbon to Madeira633 1874Madeira to St. Vincent, Cape de Verd Islands1,260 1874St. Vincent to Pernambuco, Brazil1,953 1874Jamaica to Colon, South America660 1874Pernambuco, Brazil, to Bahia, Brazil450 1874Bahia, Brazil, to Rio Janeiro1,240 1874Italy to Sicily7 1874Jamaica to Porto Rico582 1874Rio Janeiro to Rio GrPernambuco, Brazil, to Bahia, Brazil450 1874Bahia, Brazil, to Rio Janeiro1,240 1874Italy to Sicily7 1874Jamaica to Porto Rico582 1874Rio Janeiro to Rio Grande do Sul840 1874Rye Beach, U. S., to Tarr Bay, Nova Scotia550 1874Barcelona, Spain, to Marseilles, France200 1874Shetland to Orkney60 1874Valentia to Newfoundland1,900 United States vessels have lately been employed in taking soundings for the Pacific cable. When this line of telegraph is laid, its length between the
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 21: 1865-1868: Aet. 58-61. (search)
gs. Ever truly your friend, L. Agassiz. The repose of the return voyage, after sixteen months of such uninterrupted work, and of fresh impressions daily crowding upon each other, was most grateful to Agassiz. The summary of this delightful journey may close as it began with a letter to his mother. at sea, July 7, 1866. dear mother,—When you receive this letter we shall be, I hope, at Nahant, where our children and grandchildren are waiting for us. To-morrow we shall stop at Pernambuco, where I shall mail my letter to you by a French steamer. I leave Brazil with great regret. I have passed nearly sixteen months in the uninterrupted enjoyment of this incomparable tropical nature, and I have learned many things which have enlarged my range of thought, both concerning organized beings and concerning the structure of the earth. I have found traces of glaciers under this burning sky; a proof that our earth has undergone changes of temperature more considerable than even
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