Alabama (Screw sloop)
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- 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)