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San Jacinto (Texas, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
ich she visited, and was allowed to stay as long as she liked. She coaled without hindrance at Curacao, Trinidad, Paramaribo, and Maranham. Only at Puerto Cabello, in Venezuela, was she required to depart after forty-eight hours. There was no concealment about her character or her movements; but none of the vessels that were sent in pursuit of her were able to find her. Among these were the Niagara and the Powhatan, from the Gulf Squadron, and the Keystone State, Richmond, Iroquois, and San Jacinto. After leaving Maranham, Semmes shaped his course for the calm-belt. Here he expected to overhaul many merchantmen; but he only captured two, both of which he burnt. Neither was an important capture, except that from one of them the Sumter was enabled to replenish her stock of fresh provisions. After two months of cruising in the Atlantic, the Sumter put in to St. Pierre, in the island of Martinique, for coal and water. She had been here only five days when the Iroquois came in,
Geneva, N. Y. (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
all that she wanted in getting repairs and coal, and on the 26th, she returned to Wilmington. In November she made another short cruise, this time under the name of the Olustee, According to the statement in the case of the United States at Geneva, it is not quite clear whether she made two trips, one under each name, or whether the name was changed in one trip. during which she took a few prizes. With this cruise her belligerent career came to an end. Her battery was removed, and her offwas in dire need. Upon her arrival the Lieutenant-Governor was somewhat exercised as to her character, but finally decided that she was not a man-of-war, having been sold to a private merchant, to borrow the phrase of the British counter-case at Geneva. According to Wilkinson, the vessel had been so thoroughly whitewashed that the authorities could find nothing to lay hold of. After loading her cargo, she steered for Wilmington, but Fort Fisher had now fallen, and she was compelled to put back
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 8
be applicable to the existing war. As the United States were thus debarred from any present advant held to exist, the legal authority of the United States over its subjects could not come to an endeason to be the levying of war against the United States and giving aid and comfort to the enemies dation in international law or usage. The United States, in particular, have always maintained thentations made to the Foreign Office by the United States Minister were of no effect, and on the 22dved on the 5th of October at Bahia. The United States sloop-of-war Wachusett, Commander Napoleone was intended for warlike use against the United States; and recommended that she be seized withoured for news of his presence to reach the United States, and before a ship could be sent after himat time engaged in hostilities against the United States. A year later she returned to Liverpool a especially in the maritime warfare of the United States. The cruise of the Argus in 1813 was prec[17 more...]
Iroquois, Wyoming (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
neutral ports which she visited, and was allowed to stay as long as she liked. She coaled without hindrance at Curacao, Trinidad, Paramaribo, and Maranham. Only at Puerto Cabello, in Venezuela, was she required to depart after forty-eight hours. There was no concealment about her character or her movements; but none of the vessels that were sent in pursuit of her were able to find her. Among these were the Niagara and the Powhatan, from the Gulf Squadron, and the Keystone State, Richmond, Iroquois, and San Jacinto. After leaving Maranham, Semmes shaped his course for the calm-belt. Here he expected to overhaul many merchantmen; but he only captured two, both of which he burnt. Neither was an important capture, except that from one of them the Sumter was enabled to replenish her stock of fresh provisions. After two months of cruising in the Atlantic, the Sumter put in to St. Pierre, in the island of Martinique, for coal and water. She had been here only five days when the Ir
Fort McAllister (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
s a matter of the first importance to destroy her. Nothing but the most constant watchfulness prevented her egress. She lay in an unassailable position above Fort McAllister, a strong and well-constructed earthwork, which was so placed as to enfilade the narrow and difficult channel for a mile below. The river had been staked oppay a point of swampy land, which formed the sharp bend in the river below which the obstructions had been placed. Planting himself directly under the fire of Fort McAllister, to which he made no attempt to reply, Worden opened deliberately upon the Nashville, whose upper works only were visible across the swamp, until he had deterssel but the smoking fragments of her hull. To the Montauk, the battle had been no more than an hour's target practice of a winter morning. The gunners of Fort McAllister, either unprepared or demoralized, made bad work of it, and struck the ironclad only five times, doing no damage. The gunboats, remaining at a considerable d
Westfield Reservoir (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
at anchor for two weeks, coaling and refitting. Thence, on the 5th of January, 1863, Semmes proceeded to off the coast of Texas, having formed the bold design of intercepting a part of the transport fleet, which he supposed would at this time be on its way to Galveston. The Alabama arrived off Galveston at noon on the 11th. It will be remembered that only ten days before her arrival the unfortunate affair had taken place at that port, which resulted in the loss of the Harriet Lane and Westfield, and the raising of the blockade by two Texan river-steamers. A squadron under Commodore Henry H. Bell, composed of the Brooklyn, the Hatteras, and three or four gunboats, had been hurriedly collected at New Orleans, to resume the blockade, and several of the vessels had arrived off Galveston shortly before the appearance of the Alabama. The latter was sighted from the masthead of the Brooklyn when about twelve miles off. She had no steam up, nor were any sails set that could be distingu
Alabama (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
In the number of men on board, the two ships were nearly equal; but the Hatteras was far from being a match for the Alabama, either in her guns or in her construction. She was a mere shell; an iron side-wheeler, of eleven hundred tons, built fcwt.)128 lbs. 2 rifled 30-pounders60 lbs. 1 rifled 20-pounder20 lbs. 1 howitzer12 lbs. ——— Total, 8 guns220 lbs. Alabama. Number of GunsWeight of Projectiles. 6 long 32-pounders (52 cwt.)192 lbs. 1 rifled 100-pounder (Blakeley）100 lbs. 1 short 32-pounders128 lbs. 2 Xi-inch pivots (smooth-bore)272 lbs. 1 30-pounder (rifle)30 lbs. ——— 7 guns430 lbs. Alabama. Number of Guns.Eight of Projectiles. 6 long 32-pounders (52 cwt.)192 lbs. 1 rifled 100-pounder (Blakeley）100 lbs. 1cidental causes for their defeat, and sometimes with more or less foundation; but in the engagement of the Kearsarge and Alabama, the difference in the efficiency of the crews was too marked to admit this as in any sense an explanation. Mo
Nassau River (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
es our Chief of Bureau in Paris, Helm in Cuba, Heyliger at Nassau, and Walker at Bermuda. These, or most of these, acted di. She was removed to Cochrane's Anchorage, nine miles from Nassau, and began to take on board her arms and ammunition; but tng to engage in hostilities, and a new crew was shipped at Nassau. In view of these facts the Oreto was libelled in the Vdifficulties, he found that in the hurry of departure from Nassau, some of the most essential equipments of the battery had s, was finally released. She was subsequently libelled at Nassau, and remained there until the war was over. By this time day, the steamer Laurel left Liverpool, having cleared for Nassau, with several Confederate naval officers, and a cargo of cA British Vice-Admiralty court could obtain no evidence at Nassau that the Florida, an exact copy of the gun-vessels of the ith no better success; and after landing her provisions at Nassau, the Chameleon was taken to Liverpool, and delivered to F
Algeciras (Spain) (search for this): chapter 8
and repaired she sailed for Gibraltar. On the way she made two prizes, one of which was burnt, and the other, having a neutral cargo, was ransomed. The career of the Sumter now came to an end. She had no coal, and neither the government nor the private dealers would furnish a supply. The vessel herself was hardly in a condition to go to sea, and the question of transferring her officers to a new ship had been considered, when the Tuscarora arrived at Gibraltar. Taking her station at Algeciras, on the Spanish coast, the Tuscarora set on foot an effectual blockade of the Confederate cruiser. Later the Kearsarge and the Ino arrived. In view of serious defects in the boilers, and of the other unfavorable circumstances, the Sumter was condemned by a survey, and afterward sold. She became subsequently a blockade-runner. During her cruise she had made seventeen prizes, of which two were ransomed, seven were released in Cuban ports by order of the Captain-General, and two were reca
Cardenas (Cuba) (search for this): chapter 8
vember, 1861, the San Jacinto was at Havana. The Confederate commissioners, Mason and Slidell, had shortly before arrived at that place, having been brought to Cardenas by the famous blockade-runner Theodora. They were to take passage for St. Thomas in the British mail-steamer Trent, a vessel belonging to a regular line of steaspensable articles. With great reluctance, he gave up for the time his intended cruise, and steered for the coast of Cuba. Avoiding the cruisers, he arrived at Cardenas, his effective crew reduced by sickness to only three men. Here he was attacked by the fever, but recovered after a critical illness. The authorities of Cuba oborida, succeeded in getting on board a dozen men under the name of laborers, nothing could be done to make up the deficiencies of the battery. After a week in Cardenas, Maffitt, still prostrated by disease, took the Florida to Havana. Nothing could be obtained here, and he resolved, as the only course open to him, to make at o
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