CSS Alabama was a screw sloop-of-war built in 1862 for the Confederate States Navy. The vessel was built in Birkenhead on the River Mersey opposite Liverpool, England, by John Laird Sons and Company. [4] Launched as Enrica, she was fitted out as a cruiser and commissioned as CSS Alabama on August 24, 1862.

In 1862, John Laird Sons and Company of Liverpool, England built the screw sloop-of-war Alabama for the Confederate States of America. Launched as Enrica, the vessel was fitted out as a cruiser...

2024年2月7日 · CSS Alabama Built in England and manned by an English crew with Confederate officers, the CSS Alabama was the most successful and notorious Confederate raiding vessel of the Civil War. Between the summer of 1862 and the spring of 1864, the Alabama captured 65 vessels flying the U.S. flag and sank one Union warship.

Built in secret near Liverpool for the Confederate States of America in 1862, CSS Alabama, would become the Confederate States Navy’s (CSN) most notorious commerce raider. Commissioned on 24...

The history of the CSS Alabama, the premier Confederate commerce raider during the Civil War, as told by its executive officer.

CSS Alabama went under the waves at 1224. Semmes's casualty list was 41-- 9 killed, 12 drowned and 20 wounded. Kearsarge rescued 70, Deerhound, 42 and the French pilot boats, 15. Epilogue. Semmes...

2009年11月13日 · The most successful and feared Confederate commerce raider of the war, the CSS Alabama, sinks after a spectacular battle off the coast of France with the USS Kearsarge.