MAY 4TH, 1865: The CSS Ajax, Lt. Low, entered St. George's, Bermuda, from Nassau. The Confederate commander had not yet learned that his government had collapsed and that Generals Lee and Johnston had surrendered in April.
He attempted to obtain guns for delivery to Havana, but Governor W.G. Hamley refused to permit it. He advised Low: "The Ajax has been a suspected vessel ever since she was launched. She has the appearance of a gunboat; she has never carried merchant cargo; she changed owners in Nassau; she is now commanded by an officer in the service of the Confederate States; in short, she wants nothing but armament to be in a position to take the seas as a privateer."
--Old B-Runner
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