CSS Alabama's New England Expeditionary Raid

CSS Alabama's New England Expeditionary Raid commenced shortly after the Confederate States Navy ship CSS Alabama left the Azores and cruised west toward the northeastern seaboard of Newfoundland and New England along the North American coastline. The primary area of operation during this expeditionary raid, was the eastern seaboard of the United States ranging as far down as Virginia and Bermuda.

CSS Alabama

Raid overview

CSS Alabama worked its way down the east coast during the month of October capturing three ships, and burning ten others, and encountering a hurricane along the way. Finally, departing station off the New England coast, the ship set sail for Martinique to rendezvous with its supply vessel, CSS Agrippina, burning two more ships on the way.

From this raiding area off the coast of New England, CSS Alabama made its way into the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico to continue its unhindered wrecking of enemy commerce along the North American coastline.

Raid bounty
CSS Alabama's New England Expeditionary Raid
DateShip nameShip typeLocationDisposition of prize
October 3, 1862Emily FarnumMerchantNear New EnglandCaptured & let go
October 3, 1862BrilliantMerchantNear New EnglandBurned
October 7, 1862Wave CrestMerchantNear New EnglandBurned
October 7, 1862DunkirkMerchantNear New EnglandBurned
October 11, 1862TonawandaPacketNear New EnglandCaptured & let go
October 11, 1862Manchester?Near New EnglandBurned
October 15, 1862Lamplighter?Near New EnglandBurned
October 21, 1862Lafayette?Near New EnglandBurned
October 26, 1862CrenshawSchoonerNear New EnglandBurned
October 28, 1862Lauretta?Near St. George's BankBurned
October 29, 1862Baron de CastineMerchantNear New YorkCaptured & let go
November 2, 1862Levi StarbuckWhalerOff Virginia coastBurned
November 8, 1862T. B. WalesEast India traderNear BermudaBurned

References
  • Hearn, Chester G., Gray Raiders of the Sea, Louisiana State Press, 1996. ISBN 0-8071-2114-2
  • Luraghi, Raimondo, A History of the Confederate Navy, U.S. Naval Institute Press, 1996. ISBN 1-55750-527-6
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