CSS Georgia (cruiser) – Wikipedia
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| CSS Georgia | |
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 La CSS Georgia |
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| General description | |
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| Type | ship for the race of running, in iron |
| In service with | Confederate States Navy |
| Worksite | Archibald Denni’s Yard – Dumbarton |
| Setting | 1861 |
| Precautionary | January 1862 |
| Entry into service | April 9, 1863 |
| Final fate | captured by USS Niagara , lost by shipwreck in January 1875 |
| General characteristics | |
| Gross | 690 tsl |
| Length | 65 m |
| Length | 9,02 m |
| Draft | 4,19 m |
| Propulsion | steam machine, auxiliary sail trees, single propeller |
| Speed | 13 nodi (24,08 km/h) |
| Crew | 75 Officers and Municipalities |
| Weaponry | |
| Weaponry | artillery:
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| Note | |
| data taken from Confederate Raiders 1961-65 [first] | |
| Voices of ships present on Wikipedia | |
The CSS Georgia It was a steam ship of the Navy of the Confederate States.
The ship was built in 1862 as a fast mercantile Japan . Having iron hull, the ship was unsuitable for long cruise without being able to stop occasionally in a fairing basin, as the coatings against the proliferation of algae and vegetation were still unknown. Commander James Dunwoody Bulloch, [2] Important supply agent confederated abroad, he did not want to deal with ships with iron hull, but the commander Matthew Fontaine Maury [2] established to buy the Japan Because the wooden ships (which could be covered by a copper coating) were gradually replaced on the airports of Great Britain by those in metal; Consequently, contracts for new wooden buildings were not easy to sign on British shipyards.
In March 1863 the commander Maury [2] He had the merchantle buy Japan In the port of Dumbarton, Scotland, by a fictitious customer. [3] On April 1, the ship left Greenock, presumably directed to the eastern Indies by embarking on a crew of fifty men who had left to make a trip to Singapore. [first] Off Ushant, France, he met with the steamship Alar which supplied it with cannons, light armament, ammunition and supplies of various kinds. [3] On April 9, 1863 the confederate flag was officially hoisted and the ship entered service as CSS Georgia’ , under the command of William Lewis Maury. [4] His orders were to attack and destroy the merchant ships of the United States of America wherever you found them. Arriving in Bahia, Brazil, the ship broke for Trinidad, rectracted the Atlantic Ocean to take to Simon Bay, in the Cape Colony, in South Africa, where he arrived on August 16th. From there he left to reach Santa Cruz de Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, and then arrived in Cherbourg, France, October 28th. [3] During this small operating cruise he had obtained 9 sinkings, and had to release numerous neutral units. [3]
While he was in repair in Cherbourg, given the bad conditions of the ship, it was decided to transfer the armament on the CSS Rappahannock . This transfer, which was to take place in the territorial waters of Morocco, was never carried out and the Georgia It was moved to an anchor located three miles near Bordeaux. [3] On May 2, 1864 he was transferred to Liverpool and on June 1 sold to an merchant of that city due to the protests of Charles Francis Adams, Sr., Ambassador of the United States in Great Britain. [3] The steamer resumed sea again on August 11, and four days later it was captured by the American frigate USS Niagara off the coasts of Portugal. [5] Mandate in Boston, Massachusetts, the ship was confiscated, and despite the owner’s protests at the US prey court, sold to a new owner. [5]
Recorded as a US merchant ship SS Georgia In New Bedford, Massachusetts, August 5, 1865, was subsequently sold in Canada in 1870. [5] He lost his shipwreck on the coasts of Maine in January 1875.
Annotations [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]
Sources [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]
- ( IN ) Angus Kostam, Confederate Raiders 1961-65 , Oxford, Osprey Publishing, 2003.
- ( IN ) Craig L. Symonds, The Civil War at Sea , Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012.
- ( IN ) Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officiers of the Navy of the Confederate States Navy to January 1, 1863 , Richmond, McFarlane & Fergusson, 1862.
- Periodic
- Michele Cosentino, The American civil war and naval operations , in Italian Defense magazine , n. 6, Chiavari, Journalistic Riviera Soc. Coop., June 2020, pp. 82-97.
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