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    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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    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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    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, 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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    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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  • 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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