In 1988 a non-profit organization, the CSS Alabama Association, was founded to conduct scientific exploration of the shipwreck. Although the wreck is in French territorial waters, the United States …

Sep 29, 2025 · In 1862, John Laird Sons and Company of Liverpool, England built the screw sloop-of-war Alabama for the Confederate States of America. Launched as Enrica, the vessel was fitted out …

Feb 7, 2024 · CSS Alabama Built in England and manned by an English crew with Confederate officers, the CSS Alabama was the most successful and notorious Confederate raiding vessel of the Civil War.

The history of the CSS Alabama, the premier Confederate commerce raider during the Civil War, as told by its executive officer.

Aug 21, 2021 · CSS Alabama, commanded by Captain Raphael Semmes, had spent nearly two years capturing and destroying 65 Northern merchant ships and whalers. There were seven different …

Called a pirate ship, a privateer, or a Confederate commerce raider, she was the most successful ship of the Confederate States Navy in attacking the commerce of the United States on the open seas, …

The CSS Alabama was a Confederate Navy warship, specifically a screw sloop-of-war, commissioned during the American Civil War.

In one of the great feats in the history of naval warfare, he took his swift commerce raider, the CSS Alabama, on a 22-month rampage through the Atlantic and Indian oceans, hunting Union merchant …

After five successful commerce raiding missions in the Atlantic Ocean, CSS Alabama put into Cherbourg Harbor on June 11, 1864. The Confederate States sloop-of-war was commanded by Captain …

Jun 19, 2014 · Few ships during the Civil War carried the mystique of the infamous commerce raider CSS Alabama. The side-wheel steamer was the OO7 of ships, her sleek and elegant built belying …