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The Daily Dispatch: October 14, 1863., [Electronic resource], Alarming raids of Confederate Steamers off the Cape of Good Hope . (search)
Alarming raids of Confederate Steamers off the Cape of Good Hope.
The Alabama, Capt. Semmes; Georgia, Capt. Maury; and Tuscaloosa, Lieut. Low, were all in or off the harbor of Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, in August, and were driving a brisk business among the Yankee shipping.
The Cape Town Argus, of August 10th, says:
During the whole of Saturday the Alabama lay quietly at anchor in Table bay, the waters of which had then become comparatively calm, but with the Valorous no longer ated on Saturday the repairs intended to be effected here, at an early hour on Sunday morning Capt. Semmes weighed anchor, and at 6 o'clock the Alabama took her first departure from Table bay.
On Saturday the Confederate cruiser Tuscaloosa, Lieut. Low, commander, formerly the Conrad, of Philadelphia, captured by the Alabama and converted by Capt. Semmes into a tender to his ship, put into Simon's bay for the purpose of refitting.
She carries two guns and ten men before the masts.--About fou