Alabama (Screw sloop)

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Name (Latin)
Alabama (Screw sloop)
Other forms of name
Alabama (Confederate cruiser)
Alabama (Cruiser)
Alabama (Ship : 1862-1864)
Alabama (Steamer : 1864)
C.S.S. Alabama (Screw sloop)
CSS Alabama (Screw sloop)
Enrica (Screw sloop)
Coordinates
-1.695 -1.695 49.7525 49.7525 (gooearth )
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 170339887
Wikidata: Q597443
Library of congress: n 79042242
Sources of Information
  • Deloux, J.-P. Le corsaire Alabama, c2000:t.p.; p. 83, etc. (the Alabama, alias No. 290, was built in 1862 in the shipyards of Laird Brothers, Birkenhead, England. It was used as a Confederate privateer. It had a brief glorious career inflicting casualties and losses on the Union ships) p. 131, etc. (it was sunk off the coast of Cherbourg, France, by the Union gunboat Kearsarge in 1864)
  • Dic. of Am. naval fighting ships, 1959:v. 1, p. 18 (Alabama-CSS Alabama, a screw sloop launched under the name Enrica from England, then commissioned at sea as the Alabama)
  • Sinclair, A. Two years on the Alabama, c1989:CIP galley, p. iii (Confederate States steamer Alabama; always referred to as a steamer)
  • Summersell, C.G. CSS Alabama, c1984 (subj.)CIP t.p. (CSS Alabama)
  • The Alabama affair, c1993:p. iv, etc. (British-built Confederate raider during the Civil War; sunk by the Union gunboat Kearsage on June 19, 1864 off the coast of Cherbourg, France)