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Jefferson Davis (privateer)
''Jefferson Davis'' or ''Jeff Davis'' was a New Orleans full-rigged brig, built in Baltimore, Maryland in about 1845 as ''Putnam'' and captured off Cuba 21 August 1858 by John Newland Maffitt (privateer), Lt. John Newland Maffitt, USN, in USS Dolphin, USS ''Dolphin'' as the slaver ''Echo;'' her cargo of 271 enslaved Africans was returned to Africa in ''Niagara'' and ''Echo'' forfeited to the United States. Auctioned in January 1859, ''Echo'' reverted to her original name, ''Putnam,'' and was owned by Capt. Robert Hunter of Charleston, S. C. History Hunter signed up 27 shareholders, including the elite of Charleston, and 10 of them applied for a letter of marque for ''Putnam'' to be known as ''Rattlesnake'', but a name change to ''Jefferson Davis'' was approved by the State Department, 23 May, and the brig commissioned a privateer 18 June 1861 at Charleston Annex I. She was armed with five 68-pounder guns. ''Jeff Davis'' was described by a prisoner as having "black mastheads a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ensign Of The Confederate States (11 Stars)
Ensign most often refers to: * Ensign (flag), a flag flown on a vessel to indicate nationality * Ensign (rank), a navy (and former army) officer rank Ensign or The Ensign may also refer to: Places * Ensign, Alberta, Alberta, Canada * Ensign, Kansas * Ensign Lake, a lake in Minnesota * Ensign Peak, Utah * Ensign Township, Michigan * Ensign Township, North Dakota (near Glenburn, North Dakota, Glenburn) People Given name *Ensign Cottrell (1888–1947), American baseball player *Ensign Dickinson (1819–1897), American politician *Ensign H. Kellogg (1812–1882), American politician Surname * Ensign (surname) Transportation * Pearson Ensign, a class of full-keel sailboats * , a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1919 * Armstrong Whitworth Ensign, a class of British airliner, and the name of the first example *Ensignbus, a bus company in England *Ensign Manufacturing Company, a defunct railroad car manufacturing company in West Virginia Music * Ensign (band) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pirate
Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and valuable goods, or taking hostages. Those who conduct acts of piracy are called pirates, and vessels used for piracy are called pirate ships. The earliest documented instances of piracy were in the 14th century BC, when the Sea Peoples, a group of ocean raiders, attacked the ships of the Aegean and Mediterranean civilisations. Narrow channels which funnel shipping into predictable routes have long created opportunities for piracy, as well as for privateering and commerce raiding. Historic examples of such areas include the waters of Gibraltar, the Strait of Malacca, Madagascar, the Gulf of Aden, and the English Channel, whose geographic structures facilitated pirate attacks. The term ''piracy'' generally refers to maritime piracy, although the term has been generalized to refer to acts committed on land, in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shipwrecks Of The American Civil War
A shipwreck is the wreckage of a ship that is located either beached on land or sunken to the bottom of a body of water. It results from the event of ''shipwrecking'', which may be intentional or unintentional. There were approximately three million shipwrecks worldwide as of January 1999, according to Angela Croome, a science writer and author who specialized in the history of underwater archaeology (an estimate rapidly endorsed by UNESCO and other organizations). When a ship's crew has died or abandoned the ship, and the ship has remained adrift but unsunk, they are instead referred to as ''ghost ships''. Types Historic wrecks are attractive to maritime archaeologists because they preserve historical information: for example, studying the wreck of revealed information about seafaring, warfare, and life in the 16th century. Military wrecks, caused by a skirmish at sea, are studied to find details about the historic event; they reveal much about the battle that occur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naval Ships Of The Confederate States Of America
A navy, naval force, military maritime fleet, war navy, or maritime force is the branch of a nation's armed forces principally designated for naval and amphibious warfare; namely, lake-borne, riverine, littoral, or ocean-borne combat operations and related functions. It includes anything conducted by surface ships, amphibious ships, submarines, and seaborne aviation, as well as ancillary support, communications, training, and other fields. The strategic offensive role of a navy is projection of force into areas beyond a country's shores (for example, to protect sea-lanes, deter or confront piracy, ferry troops, or attack other navies, ports, or shore installations). The strategic defensive purpose of a navy is to frustrate seaborne projection-of-force by enemies. The strategic task of a navy also may incorporate nuclear deterrence by use of submarine-launched ballistic missiles. Naval operations can be broadly divided between riverine and littoral applications (brown-water nav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Privateer Ships
A privateer is a private person or vessel which engages in commerce raiding under a commission of war. Since Piracy, robbery under arms was a common aspect of seaborne trade, until the early 19th century all merchant ships carried arms. A sovereign or delegated authority issued commissions, also referred to as Letter of marque, letters of marque, during wartime. The commission empowered the holder to carry on all forms of hostility permissible at sea by the usages of war. This included attacking foreign vessels and taking them as prizes and taking crews prisoner for exchange. Captured ships were subject to condemnation and sale under prize (law), prize law, with the proceeds divided by percentage between the privateer's sponsors, shipowners, captains and crew. A percentage share usually went to the issuer of the commission (i.e. the sovereign). Most colonial powers, as well as other countries, engaged in privateering. Privateering allowed sovereigns to multiply their naval force ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
War Of 1812
The War of 1812 was fought by the United States and its allies against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom and its allies in North America. It began when the United States United States declaration of war on the United Kingdom, declared war on Britain on 18 June 1812. Although peace terms were agreed upon in the December 1814 Treaty of Ghent, the war did not officially end until the peace treaty was ratified by the 13th United States Congress, United States Congress on 17 February 1815. AngloAmerican tensions stemmed from long-standing differences over territorial expansion in North America and British support for Tecumseh's confederacy, which resisted U.S. colonial settlement in the Old Northwest. In 1807, these tensions escalated after the Royal Navy began enforcing Orders in Council (1807), tighter restrictions on American trade with First French Empire, France and Impressment, impressed sailors who were originally British subjects, even those who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saucy Jack
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William Tillman
William Tillman ( 1834 – ?) was an American mariner known for his salvage of the ''S. J. Waring'' in July 1861. Early life and career William B. Tillman was born in Milford, Delaware, in around 1834. Although most black Delawareans of his time were born into slavery, Tillman belonged to a family of free blacks. They relocated to Rhode Island around 1850, and Tillman began working as sailor, eventually to be hired by Jonas Smith & Co. Recapture of the ''Waring'' The eight-year-old schooner ''S. J. Waring'', owned by Jonas Smith & Co., set sail from New York on July 4, 1861, with Tillman among her ten-man crew. Three days later, the ship was seized by the Confederate privateer ship ''Jefferson Davis.'' and the captain and 2 mates captured; the "Waring" with a prize crew consisting of Charleston SC Pilot Montague Amiel as Prizemaster, two mates eorge Stevens and Malcolm Liddyand two seamen were detailed to sail the S.J. Waring to Charleston SC.The crew told Tillman that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Jamestown (1844)
The first USS ''Jamestown'' was a sloop-of-war in the United States Navy during the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War. ''Jamestown'' was launched in 1844 by the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Gosport Navy Yard, Virginia; and commissioned there on 12 December, with Commander Robert B. Cunningham in command. Service history Africa, Ireland, 1845–1850 She departed Hampton Roads on 25 June 1845 as flagship of Commodore Charles W. Skinner in command of United States naval vessels operating off the western coast of Africa to suppress the slave trade. At the end of her first deployment the sloop arrived at Boston, Massachusetts on 6 August 1846. While she was moored at the Boston Navy Yard word reached the United States that for the second consecutive year blight had Great Famine (Ireland), ruined the potato crop of Ireland, depriving the people of that country of their chief means of subsistence. A joint resolution of United States Congress, Congress approved 3 March 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
