CSS Alabama

CSS Alabama's New England Expeditionary Raid commenced shortly after the Confederate States Navy ship CSS Alabama left the Azores and cruised west toward the northeastern seaboard of Newfoundland and New England along the North American coastline. The primary area of operation during this expeditionary raid, was the eastern seaboard of the United States ranging as far down as Virginia and Bermuda.

Raid overview

CSS Alabama worked its way down the east coast during the month of October capturing three ships, and burning ten others, and encountering a hurricane along the way. Finally, departing station off the New England coast, the ship set sail for Martinique to rendezvous with its supply vessel, CSS Agrippina, burning two more ships on the way.

From this raiding area off the coast of New England, CSS Alabama made its way into the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico to continue its unhindered wrecking of enemy commerce along the North American coastline.

Raid bounty

CSS Alabama's New England Expeditionary Raid[1][2][3][4][5]
DateShip nameShip typeLocationDisposition of prizeValue
October 3, 1862Emily FarnumMerchantNear New EnglandReleased
October 3, 1862BrilliantMerchantGrand Banks of NewfoundlandBurned$164,000
October 7, 1862Bark Wave CrestMerchantSoutheast of Nova ScotiaBurned$44,000
October 7, 1862Brig DunkirkMerchantSoutheast of Nova ScotiaBurned$25,000
October 11, 1862TonawandaPacketNear New EnglandBonded & Released
October 11, 1862ManchesterMerchantSoutheast of Nova ScotiaBurned$164,000
October 15, 1862Bark LamplighterMerchantOff Nova Scotia coastBurned$117,600
October 21, 1862Bark LafayetteMerchantSouth of HalifaxBurned$100,337
October 26, 1862Schooner CrenshawMerchantOff New England coastBurned$33,869
October 28, 1862Bark LauraettaMerchantNear St. George's BankBurned$32,880
October 29, 1862Baron de CastineMerchantNear New YorkBonded & Released
November 2, 1862Levi StarbuckWhalerOff Virginia coastBurned$25,000
November 8, 1862T. B. WalesEast India traderNear BermudaBurned$245,625

References

  • Hearn, Chester G., Gray Raiders of the Sea, Louisiana State Press, 1996. ISBN 0-8071-2114-2
  • Luraghi, Raimondo, A History of the Confederate Navy, U.S. Naval Institute Press, 1996. ISBN 1-55750-527-6
  • United States. Naval History Division, Civil War Naval Chronology, 1861-1865, Dept. of the Navy, 1961. ISBN 1-2584-8984-8
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