CSS Alabama

Ship · Confederate States of America · August 24, 1862 – June 19, 1864

Raphael Semmes's commerce raider, which took over 60 Union merchant ships around the world before Kearsarge sank her.

Recorded for American Civil War.

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Engagements 1

Battle of Cherbourg (1864) June 19, 1864

Movements

August 24, 1862 Commissioned off Terceira, Azores · map
September 5, 1862 – September 18, 1862 Takes whalers around the Azores · map
October 15, 1862 Raids off the Grand Banks and New England (approximate) · map
November 18, 1862 Coals at Martinique · map
December 7, 1862 Takes the mail steamer Ariel near the Windward Passage · map
January 11, 1863 Sinks USS Hatteras off Galveston · map
January 20, 1863 – January 25, 1863 Port Royal, Jamaica · map
March 28, 1863 At sea, the South Atlantic (route and date approximate) · map
April 10, 1863 Fernando de Noronha · map
May 11, 1863 – May 21, 1863 Bahia, Brazil · map
June 25, 1863 At sea, the South Atlantic (route and date approximate) · map
August 5, 1863 – August 15, 1863 Cape Town · map
September 16, 1863 At sea, the southern Indian Ocean (route and date approximate) · map
October 29, 1863 At sea, the eastern Indian Ocean (route and date approximate) · map
November 6, 1863 Enters the East Indies by the Sunda Strait · map
December 21, 1863 – December 24, 1863 Singapore · map
January 3, 1864 At sea, the entrance to the Strait of Malacca (route and date approximate) · map
January 28, 1864 At sea, the Indian Ocean (route and date approximate) · map
March 20, 1864 – March 25, 1864 Cape Town · map
April 17, 1864 At sea, the South Atlantic (route and date approximate) · map
May 12, 1864 At sea, the Atlantic (route and date approximate) · map
June 1, 1864 At sea, the Atlantic (route and date approximate) · map
June 11, 1864 – June 18, 1864 Cherbourg · map
June 19, 1864 Sunk by USS Kearsarge (Battle of Cherbourg (1864)) · map

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