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Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 54: (search)
en small slats—and they thrust them in the bosoms of their shirts. One of them then helped me off with my coat, which was too well laden with buttons, to think of retaining, and I sat down whilst the other pulled off my boots. Kell stripped himself in like manner. The men with the papers were both saved. One swam to a French pilot-boat, and the other to the Deerhound. I got both packages of papers. The seaman who landed on the French coast sought out Captain Sinclair, who was still at Cherbourg, and delivered them to him. A writer in the London Times thus describes how I got the other package: When the men came on board the Deerhound, they had nothing on but their drawers and shirts, having been stripped to fight; and one of them, with a sailor's devotedness, insisted on seeing his Captain, who was then lying in Mr. Lancaster's cabin, in a very exhausted state, as he had been intrusted by Captain Semmes with the ship's papers, and to no one else would he give them up. The men wer
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 55: (search)
the destruction of the pirate-ship Alabama, by the Kearsarge, off Cherbourg. This event has given great satisfaction to the Government, and he ordered his yacht, the Deerhound, to meet him, at the port of Cherbourg, where it was his intention to embark for a cruise of a few weeks we paid no further attention to her; and when she steamed out of Cherbourg, on the morning of the engagement, we had not the least conceptioeover affirmed that my yacht, the Deerhound, was in the harbor of Cherbourg before the engagement, and proceeded thence, on the morning of thoon dispose of. They maintain that my yacht was in the harbor of Cherbourg, for the purpose of assisting the Alabama, and that her movementsher for the same object. My impression is, that the yacht was in Cherbourg, to suit my convenience, and pleasure, and I am quite sure, that officers and crew of the renowned Alabama, in the late action off Cherbourg, if you will allow me to inform them, through your influential jo
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 59: (search)
the opposite contracting party, who might put his own construction upon the laws of war. This very attempt, Mr. President, has been made in the case before you. I claim to have escaped, after my ship had sunk from under me in the engagement off Cherbourg, and I had been precipitated into the water, the enemy not having taken possession of me, according to the laws and usages of war, as your Excellency may read in almost every page of naval history; the Secretary of the Navy claiming the contrarartment, that about the middle of February, 1865, I was assigned to the command of the James River Squadron, near Richmond, with the rank of a rear-admiral; being thus promoted and employed by my Government, after the alleged illegal escape off Cherbourg. If the Federal Government then entertained the design, which it has since developed, of arresting and trying me for this alleged breach of the laws of war, was it not its duty, both to itself and to me, to have made me an exception to any mil
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
the Moors.1331 Ten cannon prepared for the siege of Cam-bray.1339 The Moors defend Algesiras against Alphonso XI. by means of mortars.1343 Four pieces said to have been used by Edward III. at Crecy.1346 An iron gun with a square bore, for carrying a cubical shot of 11 pounds weight, made at Bruges.1346 Artillery used by the Venetians at the siege of Chioggia.1366 Artillery used by the Turks at the siege of Constantinople.1394 Red-hot balls fired by the English at the siege of Cherbourg.1418 The great cannon of Mahomet II. employed against Constantinople.1453 Louis XI. of France has twelve cannon cast to throw metallic shot, for use as a siege train.1477 Brass cannon first cast in England.1521 Iron cannon first cast in England.1547 Howitzers introduced.1697 Maritz of Geneva introduces the method of casting guns solid and boring them out.1749 Carronades invented by General Melville.1779 For continuation of the subject and details, see ordnance; mortars; projec
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
ings of one set were opposite the piers of the other, by which means the force of the waves was thoroughly broken, while still permitting the passage of the current, thus greatly reducing the accumulation of deposits around the base of the structure, and consequent tendency towards filling up the harbor. The piers of the new river-frontage of New York are to be constructed on pillars which allow free course to the water, being intended for wharfage, not wave-breakers. The breakwater of Cherbourg was commenced in 1784. Its total length is 4,120 yards, consisting of two arms, respectively 2,441 and 1,679 yards long, forming an obtuse angle of 169° towards the sea. The average depth of water inclosed is 62 feet at high spring-tides, and the area sheltered is about 1,927 acres, about one third of which has a depth exceeding 27 feet at low-water spring-tides. Cessart's breakwater. Cessart's plan for breakwaters at the latter part of the last century consisted of large truncat
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), E. (search)
points assumes the form of an are of dazzling brilliancy. With 600 Bunsen's cells arranged consecutively, an are 7.8 inches in length was obtained; and when the 600 cells were arranged in six parallel series, a still more powerful light was produced. According to Fizeau and Foucault, the intensity of the electric light with a battery of 46 pairs of Bunsen burners was 235, that of the sun being taken at 1,000, while with 80 pairs it was but 238. During the excavation of the docks at Cherbourg two apparatus of this kind were employed, maintained by a single battery of 50 pairs of Bunsen, affording sufficient light for 800 workmen. The magneto-electric light was applied for illuminating the lighthouse at Dungeness, England, in 1862, and was introduced at La Heve, France, a year or two later. The machines employed at each are very similar in construction and entirely so in principle, the English apparatus being arranged after the following manner: — Eighty-eight bobbins or
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
the waves. Of the first description were the cones of Cessart, placed off Cherbourg. Being destroyed, a break water of coursed masonry on a bank of pierre perdu imitare. Of the fourth description are the solid breakwaters of Plymouth, Cherbourg, Cette, at the mouth of the Delaware, Buffalo, and elsewhere. Sea-walls ar sluices of the northern French ports of Dieppe, Treport, Havre de Grace, and Cherbourg, are good examples of sluices of the latter description. The fresh water of r and Alderney, in England, of Port Vendre, Cette, La Ciotat, Marseilles, and Cherbourg in France, Carthagena in Spain, Pola in the Adriatic, of Algiers and Port Sairica, and Cape Henlopen at the mouth of the Delaware. For the break water at Cherbourg artificial stone blocks of 712 cubic feet each were immersed The fortificaharged at the end of the cylinder. Stone-ves′sel. The breakwater of Cherbourg, France, was commenced in 1786, and was never completed according to the original
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
resistance over the charge of powder; if it could be made as strong as the rock itself, it would be perfection. a. The different materials employed for tamping are: — The chips and dust of the quarry itself. This is what is most commonly used, unless there be stone in it that strikes fire. b. Dry sand poured in loose, or stirred up as it is poured in, to make it more compact. General Burgoyne cites the favorable notice of sand in this connection, in the memoir of the works at Cherbourg, and also by a writer in the Journal of the Franklin Institute. He also cites the experience of General Pasley, of the English Engineers, who condemns sand as utterly unfit. An extended series of experiments were made in the granite of Dalkey, Kingstown Harbor, Ireland, in which sands of various qualities and fineness were tried, as against the baked clay. The results of the experiments were all unfavorable to the sand. c. Clay, well dried, either by exposure to the sun or by a f
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 8: (search)
er it to the Secretary of the Navy in connection with the telegram I have addressed to the Navy Department to-day. The Governor had telegraphed, on the receipt of Mr. Winslow's letter, to have a war-vessel sent to Provincetown. It may be regarded as one of the coincidences of the war, that the information in the above letter should have been conveyed to the Governor by Mr. Winslow, and that the Alabama should have been sunk by Commodore Winslow, months afterwards, in the harbor of Cherbourg, France. Authority was received from the Secretary of War, by an order dated Jan. 26, to recruit a colored regiment in Massachusetts. The first authority given by the Governor to any person to recruit colored men in Massachusetts, was dated Feb. 7; and the regiment; was filled to the maximum May 14, in less than one hundred days. Before its organization was completed, there being so many colored men anxious to enlist, it was decided to raise another regiment, which was rapidly filled. The
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 11: (search)
lue of the repeated contributions of your voice and pen, during the present struggle, for the instruction and encouragement of the people. I may be allowed, perhaps, to confess how much in my own hours of care they have contributed to alleviate anxiety, and inspire hope, and increase the profound respect with which I am your obliged friend and obedient servant. One of the most brilliant naval engagements of the war was the destruction of the pirate Alabama, by the Kearsarge, near Cherbourg, France. The commander of the Kearsarge was John A. Winslow, U. S.N., a citizen of Roxbury, Mass. The Kearsarge returned to Boston shortly after the engagement, and the ship, officers, and crew received a hearty welcome. The authorities of the city of Boston extended a public reception to Commander Winslow, the officers, and crew of the ship; and Governor Andrew caused the Adjutant-General to issue a general order, from which we make the following extract:— The Commonwealth also desire
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