![]() Any of you that thinks he cannot stand to his gun, I do not want.” “The Alabama Will be a Fine Ship”Ĭovertly financed through the sale of Southern cotton and built at the famous Laird Shipyard on the Mersey River near Liverpool, Alabama was a wood-hulled, bark-rigged (foremasts rigged square, mizzenmast fore and aft), 220-foot sloop of 1,050 tons. Your prize money will be divided proportionately. We are going to burn, sink and destroy the commerce of the United States. There is a chance that seldom offers itself to a British seaman, that is, to make a little money. “She is as fine a vessel as ever floated. “Now, my lads, there is the ship,” said the captain. A band played “Dixie” as Semmes read aloud his commission from President Jefferson Davis and the Stars and Bars were run up the mainmast. On August 24, 1862, newly promoted Captain Raphael Semmes of the Confederate States Navy called his largely English crew to the quarterdeck of his new command, the 220-foot battle cruiser Alabama, lying off the coast of Terceira in the Azores.
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