CSS Florida was a sloop-of-war in the service of the Confederate States Navy. She served as a commerce raider during the American Civil War before being...
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U.S. Navy in April 1862, and became USS Hendrick Hudson The cruiser CSS Florida (cruiser) was commissioned in August 1862 and captured by the U.S. Navy...
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Sons and Company. Launched as Enrica, she was fitted out as a cruiser and commissioned as CSS Alabama on August 24, 1862. Under Captain Raphael Semmes, Alabama...
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Shoals at the entrance within range of 16 enemy cruisers. Captain James H. MacGarvey, CSN, in little CSS Diana got Owl off barely in time; she not only...
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names CSS Olustee and CSS Chameleon. The iron Confederate cruiser Tallahassee was named after the Confederate state capital of Tallahassee in Florida and...
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The ship, Edith, from Tallahassee, Florida, became the new Confederate cruiser. Its name was CSS Chickamauga. CSS stands for Confederate States Ship....
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CSS Selma was a steamship in the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. She served in the Confederate Navy first as Florida, and later...
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List of ships of the Confederate States Navy (redirect from CSS Yazoo)
planned to add ironclad cruisers to their fleet, successfully procuring one, but too late to be of benefit for the war. CSS Alabama, screw steamer, sloop-of-war...
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CSS Clarence, also known as Coquette, was originally a brig from Baltimore captured by the Confederate cruiser CSS Florida during the American Civil War...
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exploded, the outcome of the battle might have been different. The CSS Florida (cruiser) also carried two 7-inch and four 6-inch Blakely guns. A 7-inch Blakely...
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HMS Endeavour CSS Florida CSS Fredericksburg CSS Gaines CSS General Beauregard CSS General Lovell PS General Slocum CSS General Thompson CSS Governor Moore...
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USS Hendrick Hudson (section CSS Florida)
Hudson was built in Florida in 1859 at Greenpoint, New York. She was taken into the Confederate States Navy in 1862 as CSS Florida. Hendrick Hudson was...
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the Confederate cruiser CSS Florida, sparking a minor diplomatic crisis between the United States and the Empire of Brazil. The Florida was ultimately...
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/ 37.0732°N 76.5431°W / 37.0732; -76.5431 (CSS Florida (cruiser)) Francis E. Powell Torpedoed. CSS Fredericksburg Confederate States Navy 4 April...
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the Civil War Barclay took part in the capture of the Confederate cruiser CSS Florida at Bahia, Brazil, by USS Wachusett in October 1864, and served on...
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Battle of Cherbourg (1864) (redirect from Sinking of CSS Alabama)
Battle of Cherbourg, or sometimes the Battle off Cherbourg or the Sinking of CSS Alabama, was a single-ship action fought during the American Civil War between...
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covers the eastern half of the U.S. state of North Carolina CSS Raleigh (1861), a gunboat CSS Raleigh (1864), an ironclad ram HMS Raleigh (1806), an 18-gun...
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American Civil War, while commanding the Confederate States Navy cruiser CSS Florida, he was chased by the United States Navy steam frigate USS Niagara...
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America. During an engagement with the disguised Confederate commerce raider, CSS Alabama, she was taken by surprise and was sunk off the coast of Galveston...
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Japanese ironclad Kōtetsu (redirect from CSS Stonewall)
ammunition, as well as more crewmen, from CSS Rappahannock and CSS Florida. During this time she was commissioned CSS Stonewall while still at sea and Page...
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Squadron, searching for Confederate cruiser Tacony off Nantucket Shoals in June and Confederate armed cruiser Florida in the same area in July. In August...
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Memphis during development City of Memphis (train), a passenger train route CSS Memphis Confederate Battery converted from floating dry dock 1861 Memphis...
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accused of assisting the Confederate States of America by selling the cruiser CSS Florida to them. He was appointed Commodore-in-Charge, Hong Kong from March...
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USS Kearsarge (1861) (category CSS Alabama)
sloop-of-war, is best known for her defeat of the Confederate commerce raider CSS Alabama off Cherbourg, France during the American Civil War. Kearsarge was...
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However, soon after she began this duty, word reached Key West that CSS Florida had escaped through the blockade from Mobile and was at Havana. On 22...
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toll road in Florida. CSS Tallahassee, 1864 Confederate cruiser USS Tallahassee (BM-9), 1908 US Navy monitor, originally named USS Florida USS Tallahassee (CL-61)...
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319. Thomsen, p. 279. Whittle, p. 212. Waddell, p. 36. "CSS Shenandoah Confederate Navy Cruiser American Civil War". americancivilwar.com. Johnson, Andrew...
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United States Navy ships (section Cruisers)
classification schemes and the history of nuclear-powered vessels. Modern cruisers, destroyers and frigates are called surface combatants and act mainly as...
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remains unbeaten by any ship in naval warfare. CSS Alabama's crew was mostly from Liverpool, and the cruiser never once dropped anchor in a Confederate port...
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Columbia XJL, a large amphibian aircraft built only as three prototypes CSS Columbia, a Confederate States Navy (and later United States Navy) ironclad...
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