APRIL 23RD
CSS Florida captured bark Henrietta at sea and burned her.
APRIL 24TH
A real big day for the USS De Soto, maybe a record? The ship captures four blockade-runners bound from Mobile to Havana with cargoes of cotton. Those sailors must have been looking forward to a big payday in prize court.
CSS Alabama captured and burned the whaler Nye off the coast of Brazil. Semmes writes that this is the 16th whaler he's captured, giving him more than Commodore David Porter destroyed in the Pacific in the frigate Essex during the War of 1812.
CSS Florida captured and destroyed the ship Oneida bound from Shanghai to New York with a cargo of tea.
APRIL 25TH
The CSS Georgia under Lt. W.L. Maury captured the ship Dictator off the Cape Verde Islands and burned it the next day.
A couple questions here. I have never heard of this CSS Georgia and was this Maury related to the famous Confederate William Fontaine Maury? The fact that the Georgia was a Confederate ship capturing another ship elsewhere on the ocean (I'll have to check and see if the Cape Verde Islands are by Africa) makes me think it must have been a cruiser. I guess I'll have to look them up.
Old B-Runner
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