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Bombay (Maharashtra, India) (search for this): chapter 59
L. Worden. The Shenandoah, originally called the Sea King, was the last and the most dangerous of all the Confederate cruisers. She was a full-rigged ship of about eight hundred tons, with so-called auxiliary steam power, and very fast under either sail or steam, capable of making three hundred and twenty miles in twenty-four hours under favorable circumstances, which exceeded the speed of any vessel in the U. S. Navy. On the 8th of October, 1864, the Sea King cleared from London for Bombay. As she was not equipped for war purposes, there was no question in regard to her; but the same day she sailed, the steamer Laurel cleared from Liverpool for Nassau, with several Confederate naval officers and a cargo of cases marked Machinery, but containing guns and their equipments. Near Madeira, the Sea King received her armament and stores from the Laurel, and was transferred by her master, who had a power of sale from her owner, to Commander James J. Waddell, of the Confederate Navy,
Alabama (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 59
547,609.86--was only about $60,000 greater than those inflicted by the Shenandoah, yet the latter was only in commission about one-half as long a time as the Alabama. Commander Waddell kept his movements concealed, and left no trace behind him by which he could be followed. He eluded the vigilance of the United States cruisers that were in pursuit of him, and, after lightening his vessel of a portion of her cargo, delivered her to the British authorities, and she was at last turned over to the United States Government. An account of the inner life on board the Shenandoah has never, to our knowledge, been published. although from the records of the Court of Alabama Claims we know the exact number of vessels Waddell captured and the damage committed; but, if ever an account of this cruise is published, even in the boastful spirit which characterizes so many Confederate narratives, it will no doubt be found equally interesting with the story of the Alabama, and quite as disreputable.
Melbourne (Victoria, Australia) (search for this): chapter 59
erations now remaining for a Confederate cruiser. The Shenandoah cruised three months in the Atlantic, taking several prizes, and then proceeded to Tristan d'acunha, where the crews of the captured vessels were landed. She next proceeded to Melbourne, where she was well received and allowed to repair and refit, take in all the coal required — in short, do anything that would assist her in her attempt to destroy the American whaling fleet. In violation of the Foreign Enlistment Act, Commandhis operations for over two months after hostilities between the North and South had terminated, professing that he had no intimation of the surrender of the Confederate armies until the date above mentioned; but he must have known when he left Melbourne that the Confederate struggle for independence was practically at an end. When Waddell was assured that the Confederate Government had ceased to exist, instead of surrendering his vessel to the nearest United States authority as he should have
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 59
He shaped his course for the coast of the United States, and by the 10th of June had captured fivecruise of three months on the coast of the United States against Federal merchant vessels, proceediensible exercise of the naval force of the United States within a foreign country, in defiance of iner. Fifteen millions of dollars worth of United States commerce had been swept from the ocean, anerstood by those who had tampered with the United States to the verge of war, and now that almost awas no longer much opportunity of injuring United States commerce in the ordinary channels of tradecer, engaged in the business of destroying United States merchant vessels, ever boasted after the wy inflicted on the merchant vessels of the United States. It is well for us to ascertain whether toperly have been held for trial before the United States courts. That the Confederate cruisers wers of Great Britain as well as those of the United States. The Japan, or Georgia, left the Clyde [17 more...]
Halifax (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 59
ard to conceive, for at that stage of the civil war a cruise against the coasting trade of the North could only show the desperate straits to which the Confederates were reduced, and was merely an attempt to keep up the semblance of a war on the ocean. The Atlanta made two trips to Wilmington as a blockade-runner. She was then converted into a cruiser and named the Tallahassee. Under this name she left the Cape Fear River early in August, 1864. and on the 19th of that month arrived at Halifax, after capturing and destroying several vessels. Owing to the vigilance of the authorities, who in this instance were upon the alert to prevent a violation of the neutrality laws, the Tallahassee was unable to obtain coal or othersupplies, and was obliged to return to Wilmington. In November this vessel made another attempt, under the name of the Olustee, and took a few prizes, but, returning to Wilmington, assumed her old character of merchant vessel and blockade-runner. She received th
Charleston (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 59
of the Confederate Navy, with the object of returning from Bermuda laden with provisions for the Confederate army. Although the Governor of Bermuda was duly apprised of the character of the Chameleon, he expressed himself as satisfied that she had been sufficiently whitewashed to be admitted as a merchant vessel. The cargo was sold, a supply of stores laid in, and the vessel returned to the Confederacy, only to find that Wilmington was in Federal hands. Wilkinson then tried to get into Charleston; but, failing in his attempt, he proceeded to Nassau, landed his cargo, and the vessel was taken to Liverpool and delivered to Fraser, Trenholm & Co., the Confederate agents; but as the British authorities had now become very particular in regard to the proceedings of these nondescript vessels, the Chameleon was seized and ultimately surrendered to the United States Government. It is only within a late period that we have ascertained anything of the inner life on board the Confederate c
England (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 59
, in speed and armament, to repeat against Great Britain the tactics of the Confederate cruisers aghe United States to have declared war with Great Britain than to have submitted longer to open violhe same terms as were accorded to those of Great Britain; but the colonists placed so many restrictaid on American commerce. It is true that Great Britain made the amende honorable, after years of r against their regularity. The fact that Great Britain subsequently paid for allowing her laws todence against the Confederate cruisers. Great Britain, with propriety, might have sent out her stish Government cannot be doubted, for, if Great Britain had been mindful of her neutral obligationm all. There were a dozen ways in which Great Britain might have prevented her neutrality laws fre British vessels, subject to the laws of Great Britain, and were commissioned as ships-of-war on nd were acting in violation of the laws of Great Britain as well as those of the United States. [5 more...]
Arctic Ocean (search for this): chapter 59
aleb Cushing from the harbor of Portland, me. capture of the Florida on the coast of Brazil. an apology to the Brazilian government. Captain Collins' punishment. the Florida sunk in Hampton Roads. destruction of the whaling fishery in the Arctic ocean. neutrality laws violated by foreign governments. scenes on board the Confederate cruisers. actual losses inflicted by the Alabama and Shenandoah. criticisms, remarks, etc., etc. We have told the story of the Sumter and Alabama, and par and were based upon the movements of the Pacific whaling fleet. The latter habitually cruised in the neighborhood of the Carolina Islands for sperm whale, going north to the Sea of Ochotsk for right whale, thence to Behring's Straits and the Arctic Ocean. Returning from the north, the whalers generally reached the Sandwich Islands in October or November for refreshment. The plan was for the Shenandoah to be at these various points simultaneously with the whaling fleet, and thus to sweep it f
Fort McAllister (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 59
ng 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 L. Worden. The Shenandoah, originally called the Sea King, was the last and the most dangerous of all the Confederate cruisers. She was a full-rigged ship of about eight hundred tons, with so-called auxiliary steam power, and very fast under either sail or steam, capable of making three hundred and twenty miles in twenty-four hours under f
Antwerp, Paulding County, Ohio (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 59
Confederate cruisers against the United States. It would have perhaps been better policy for the United States to have declared war 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
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