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Photo # NH 59351: 'The Approach of the British Pirate Alabama', engraving published in 1863

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CSS Alabama (1862-1864) -- Miscellaneous Actions

This page features all our images of CSS Alabama's actions, other than that with USS Kearsarge.

For links to additional views of, or relating to CSS Alabama, see:

  • CSS Alabama (1862-1864) -- Selected Views;


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 58739

    CSS Alabama (1862-1864)


    Line engraving published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", volume I, page 399, depicting the Confederate cruiser decoying ships toward herself by burning a prize vessel.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 141KB; 740 x 485 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 85575-KN (Color)

    "The Confederate Sloop-of-War '290', or Alabama, Leaving the Merchant-Ship Tonowanda

    Hand-tinted copy of a line engraving, after a drawing by Smyth, published in "Harper's Weekly", 1862.
    CSS Alabama captured the packet ship Tonowanda southeast of Nova Scotia on 8 October 1862. The prize was released on bond to carry prisoners captured on other ships taken by the Alabama.

    Courtesy of the Navy Art Collection, Washington, DC.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 129KB; 200 x 555 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 57261

    "Capture of the U.S. Mail Steamer 'Ariel,' off the East End of Cuba, by the Privateer 'Alabama,' December 7th 1862"


    Line engraving, from a sketch by R.C. Thomas, published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", volume II, page 33, depicting CSS Alabama capturing the steamer Ariel with hundreds of passengers on board, including about 150 U.S. Marines.
    Ariel, en route from the U.S. to Panama with mail and passengers en bound for California, was ransomed and released, and her military passengers were paroled.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 142KB; 740 x 500 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 59351

    "The Approach of the British Pirate 'Alabama'."


    Line engraving after a drawing by Homer, published in "Harper's Weekly", Volume VII, January-June 1863, page 268, depicting an anxious scene aboard a merchant ship as the Confederate cruiser Alabama comes up.
    This may represent the capture of the California mail steamer Ariel off Cuba on 7 December 1862, as there were many ladies among the prize ship's passengers.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 138KB; 485 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 42372

    USS Hatteras (1861-1863)
    -- in center

    In action with CSS Alabama, off Galveston, Texas, on 11 January 1863.
    Lithographed by A. Hoen & Co., Baltimore, Md.
    Hatteras was sunk in this engagement.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 90KB; 740 x 485 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 53690

    USS Hatteras (1861-1863)
    (right)

    19th Century print, depicting the sinking of Hatteras by CSS Alabama, off Galveston, Texas, 11 January 1863.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 174KB; 740 x 610 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 93330

    "Passage of the Alabama by the Small Channel between the Islands of Canto, Running Away from the Kearsarge"


    Photograph of an oil painting by Henry Abreu, presented by his father, Dr. Eduardo Abreu to Rear Admiral Charles S. Sperry, USN, at the time that the "Great White Fleet" passed through the Azores, 1 January 1909.
    The painting depicts a reported incident involving CSS Alabama in the Azores, in about 1862.
    The Naval Historical Foundation holds a portfolio of presentation photographic prints of this scene, each with an inscription mounted at the left. The original oil painting was in the Collections of the Navy Department in 1982, but was in relatively poor condition.

    Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 80KB; 740 x 600 pixels

     

    For links to additional views of, or relating to CSS Alabama, see:

  • CSS Alabama (1862-1864) -- Selected Views;


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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    Page made 13 July 2000
    Coding updated 5 May 2001