. Young folk's history of the war for the union . ard her stern settled inthe water while her bowrose high in the air, andthe Alabama went to thebottom of the EnglishChannel, leaving her offi-cers and crew strugglingin the water. An English steam-yacht, named the Deer-hound, which had comeout of Cherbourg withthe Alabama, assisted, byrequest of Captain Winslow, the boats of the Kearsarge in pick-ing up the survivors: but instead of delivering them up asprisoners she steamed away to the English coast and landedthem there. Among those thus rescued was Captain Semmesand about forty of his officer
. Young folk's history of the war for the union . ard her stern settled inthe water while her bowrose high in the air, andthe Alabama went to thebottom of the EnglishChannel, leaving her offi-cers and crew strugglingin the water. An English steam-yacht, named the Deer-hound, which had comeout of Cherbourg withthe Alabama, assisted, byrequest of Captain Winslow, the boats of the Kearsarge in pick-ing up the survivors: but instead of delivering them up asprisoners she steamed away to the English coast and landedthem there. Among those thus rescued was Captain Semmesand about forty of his officers and men. The Alabama and theKearsarge were of nearly the same size and armament, andcarried nearly the same numl)er of guns. Some of the Confed-erate writers have tried to prove that the Kearsarge was j)artlyiron-clad, and say that this gave her an advantage over the Ala-bama; but her only armor was her chain-cables which had beenhung up and down on her sides to protect her engines fromshot, a thing often done during the war. If Captain Semmes. John A. Winslow. 1864.] THE FLORIDA. 405 had protected his ship in the same way, he might have comeoff better in the fight. Another British vessel built for the Confederates was theOreto, afterward named the Florida. She was allowed to go tosea in spite of the protest of the American Minister, sailed toNassau and then ran into Mobile, under the British flag. InDecember, 1862, she ran out, completely armed as a privateer,under the command of Captain John N. Maffitt, son of thefamous Irish Methodist revival preacher. Like Semmes, Maf-fitt had formerly been in the naval service of the United States,After cruising along the Atlantic coast and among the \YestIndia islands, capturing and burning ships, the Florida at lastwent down the coast of Brazil and ran into the port of Bahia.
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