Author: Joseph McKenna
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786458275
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
During the American Civil War, British–crewed warships harassed Union merchantmen, sinking a total value of more than $15,000,000 in ships and cargo. Considered pirates by the federal government, these ships and crew were at the center of a largely unknown but fascinating struggle between Commander James Dunwoody of the Confederate Navy, U.S. Ambassador Charles Francis Adams, and Consul Thomas H. Dudley. This history of British assistance to the Confederate Navy covers that story in full and provides a close look at the British seamen who manned warships and blockade runners.
British Ships in the Confederate Navy
Author: Joseph McKenna
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786458275
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
During the American Civil War, British–crewed warships harassed Union merchantmen, sinking a total value of more than $15,000,000 in ships and cargo. Considered pirates by the federal government, these ships and crew were at the center of a largely unknown but fascinating struggle between Commander James Dunwoody of the Confederate Navy, U.S. Ambassador Charles Francis Adams, and Consul Thomas H. Dudley. This history of British assistance to the Confederate Navy covers that story in full and provides a close look at the British seamen who manned warships and blockade runners.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786458275
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
During the American Civil War, British–crewed warships harassed Union merchantmen, sinking a total value of more than $15,000,000 in ships and cargo. Considered pirates by the federal government, these ships and crew were at the center of a largely unknown but fascinating struggle between Commander James Dunwoody of the Confederate Navy, U.S. Ambassador Charles Francis Adams, and Consul Thomas H. Dudley. This history of British assistance to the Confederate Navy covers that story in full and provides a close look at the British seamen who manned warships and blockade runners.
Great Britain and the Confederate Navy, 1861-1865
Author: Frank J. Merli
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253217356
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
A tale of intrigue about the attempts of the Confederacy to build a navy in Britain.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253217356
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
A tale of intrigue about the attempts of the Confederacy to build a navy in Britain.
The Confederate Navy in Europe
Author: Warren F. Spencer
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 9780817308612
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
"A major contribution to Civil War and naval history". -- Journal of Southern History
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 9780817308612
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
"A major contribution to Civil War and naval history". -- Journal of Southern History
The Confederate Navy
Author: William N. Still
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This comprehensive guide to the Confederate Navy, covers the ships and men, the organization and facilities, the strategy and tactics, and compiles the operations, including those on the Western rivers.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This comprehensive guide to the Confederate Navy, covers the ships and men, the organization and facilities, the strategy and tactics, and compiles the operations, including those on the Western rivers.
The Laird Rams
Author: Andrew R. English
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476643679
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Built in Birkenhead, England, from 1862 to 1865, the "Laird rams" were two innovative armored warships intended for service with the Confederate Navy during the Civil War. The vessels represented a substantial threat to Union naval power, and offered the Confederacy a potential means to break the Union blockade of the Southern coastline. During 1863, the critical year of the Confederacy's last hope of recognition by the British and French, President Lincoln threatened war with Britain if the ships ever sailed under Confederate colors. Built in some secrecy, then launched on the River Mersey under intense international scrutiny, the ships were first seized, and then purchased by Britain to avoid a war with the United States. These armored warships were largely forgotten after the Admiralty acquired them. Historians rarely mention these sister warships--if referred at all, they are given short shrift. This book provides the first complete history of these once famous ironclads that never fired a shot in anger yet served at distant stations as defenders of the British Empire.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476643679
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Built in Birkenhead, England, from 1862 to 1865, the "Laird rams" were two innovative armored warships intended for service with the Confederate Navy during the Civil War. The vessels represented a substantial threat to Union naval power, and offered the Confederacy a potential means to break the Union blockade of the Southern coastline. During 1863, the critical year of the Confederacy's last hope of recognition by the British and French, President Lincoln threatened war with Britain if the ships ever sailed under Confederate colors. Built in some secrecy, then launched on the River Mersey under intense international scrutiny, the ships were first seized, and then purchased by Britain to avoid a war with the United States. These armored warships were largely forgotten after the Admiralty acquired them. Historians rarely mention these sister warships--if referred at all, they are given short shrift. This book provides the first complete history of these once famous ironclads that never fired a shot in anger yet served at distant stations as defenders of the British Empire.
The Confederate Privateers
Author: William Morrison Robinson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Privateering
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The Confederate privateers is a book of action and adventure filled with stories of the Confederacy's privately armed ships and their sea battles with the Union. Called 'pirates' by the North, the South preferred to call them 'gentlemen adventurers', justly boasting of their exploits. Using Naval War records and other archives, the author provides readers with an authentic description of the privateers, their cruises and prizes, their successes and failures, and their ultimate fates. In fact, this is the first narrative history of privateer cruises aboard the Jefferson Davis, the Dixie, the Sally, and the pygmy submarine Pioneer.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Privateering
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The Confederate privateers is a book of action and adventure filled with stories of the Confederacy's privately armed ships and their sea battles with the Union. Called 'pirates' by the North, the South preferred to call them 'gentlemen adventurers', justly boasting of their exploits. Using Naval War records and other archives, the author provides readers with an authentic description of the privateers, their cruises and prizes, their successes and failures, and their ultimate fates. In fact, this is the first narrative history of privateer cruises aboard the Jefferson Davis, the Dixie, the Sally, and the pygmy submarine Pioneer.
The Confederate Navy
Author: Philip Van Doren Stern
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
At the beginning of the Civil War, the Confederate Navy was a very small collection of nearly anything that would float -- mostly small, unmilitary vessels and a few captured Union ships; there was not one real warship in the fleet. The North had men-of-war and a large fleet of merchant ships that could be armed quickly. As a result, the North was soon able to blockade the Southern coast and capture port after port. But the South fought back ingeniously, sending agents to England and France to have the finest warships built, innovating such modern weapons as the torpedo, the submarine, and the armored warship -- all of which changed the nature of naval warfare.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
At the beginning of the Civil War, the Confederate Navy was a very small collection of nearly anything that would float -- mostly small, unmilitary vessels and a few captured Union ships; there was not one real warship in the fleet. The North had men-of-war and a large fleet of merchant ships that could be armed quickly. As a result, the North was soon able to blockade the Southern coast and capture port after port. But the South fought back ingeniously, sending agents to England and France to have the finest warships built, innovating such modern weapons as the torpedo, the submarine, and the armored warship -- all of which changed the nature of naval warfare.
The Secret Service of the Confederate States in Europe; Or, How the Confederate Cruisers Were Equipped
Author: James Dunwody Bulloch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
By Sea and by River
Author: Bern Anderson
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The Rebel Raiders
Author: James T. De Kay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The history of the Confederates plans to build a navy with the covert aid of the British. The plan culminated in the building of the C.S.S. Alabama.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The history of the Confederates plans to build a navy with the covert aid of the British. The plan culminated in the building of the C.S.S. Alabama.