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	Confederate Ships--CSS Florida (1862-1864)
		CSS Florida, a steam screw cruiser of about 700 tons, was built in England in 1862 under the name Oreto.
		While anchored in that port on 7 October, Florida was attacked, captured and towed to sea by USS Wachusett, in violation of Brazilian neutrality.
		Wachusett's commanding officer's report of his seizure of CSS Florida is reproduced in the Documents of the Civil War section as Capture of CSS Florida by USS Wachusett, 7 October 1864.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-us-cs/csa-sh/csash-ag/florida.htm (543 words)

	GardeningDaily - CSS Florida
		The blockade runner CSS Florida was commissioned in January 1862, captured by the U.S. Navy in April 1862, and became USS Hendrick Hudson.
		The cruiser CSS Florida was commissioned in August 1862 and captured by the U.S. Navy while in port in Bahia, Brazil in October 1864.
		The gunboat CSS Selma was named CSS Florida prior to July 1862.
	www.gardeningdaily.com /flowers-and-plants/CSS_Florida (90 words)

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		CSS FLORIDA of New Orleans was one of 14 steamers of Charles Morgan's Southern Steamship Co. which Maj. Gen.
		Lewis, after running FLORIDA aground twice and jettisoning 30 bales of cargo, found "it was impossible to bring her out without the assistance of the engineers, pilot, and mate; so rather than burn her he considered it prudent to bargain with them, and gave his word that they would receive $500.00 each.
		CSS Cruiser FLORIDA was built by the British firm of William C. Miller & Sons and purchased by the Confederacy from Fawcett, Preston & Co..
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/csn/f.txt (2486 words)

	Heavy Cruisers - Backbone of the fleet
		Cruisers have filled a vital role in navy history, they were built to go into harms way and show the flag in situations that would not warrent or risk a larger captial ship.
		For thirty years cruisers were the back bone of the world battle fleets, cruising the oceans and showing the flag while the dreadnoughts of the era recived more attention and more upgrades.
		The concept for the battle cruiser was to over whelm the opposing forces scouts with dreadnought level firepower, thus robbing the opposing feet of intelligence and be able to return to our own fleet with a tactical picture of what lay ahead.
	www.polaris.net /~wright/navyard5.html (1106 words)

	Birkenhead and the Confederacy
		This was the CSS Florida, built by Fawcett + Preston, with W.C. Miller + son.
		CSS Florida took or destroyed 36 ships before being sunk "by accident" in Hampton Roads, Virginia.
		CSS Shenandoah took or destroyed 38 ships before being sailed into Liverpool and surrendering on 6th Nov 1865, long after hostilities had ceased, with many vessels being sunk in the interim.
	members.tripod.com /wirral_rf/confeds.htm (357 words)

	Kearsarge and Alabama
		The Florida was a two smoke pipe steamer, a little smaller than the Alabama, and carried eight rifled guns.
		Cruising about the Azores for some days, her course was shaped towards New York, capturing twenty vessels, the Starlight, Ocean Hover, Alert, Weather Gage, Altamaha, Benjamin Tucker, Courser, Virginia, Elisha Dunbar, Brilliant, Emily Farnham, Dunkirk, Wave Crest, Tonawanda, Manchester, Lamplighter, Lafayette, Crenshaw, Lauretta, and Baron de Oastine.
		The damage inflicted on American shipping by the Confederate cruisers, which were allowed to be fitted out in England, cost the English Government fifteen million, five hundred thousand dollars ($15,500,000.00), which was paid to the United States in settlement of the so-called Alabama claims.
	www.geocities.com /generalgreene1770/RIMOLLUS/kearsargealabama.html (7236 words)

	Ahoy - Mac's Web Log - CSS Florida
		By early May, Florida had stopped the brig Clarence loaded with aromatic coffee, 300 bags were transferred, one of his Lieutenants Charles W. Read pleaded with his Captain to be allowed to man Clarence and operate her as an armed cruiser.
		Florida had not been able to dry dock at Bermuda, and with continuing engine troubles, and the copper sheathing on her hull coming loose, it was now a priority to get the ship into a dry dock.
		Although Florida had been undertaking repairs at Brest over a 6 month period, her new captain was still not happy, but the patience of the patience of the French was exhausted, the local Naval Chief Vice Admiral Count de Gueyton told Morris it was time for his ship to move on.
	www.ahoy.tk-jk.net /MaraudersCivilWar/CSSFlorida.html (7663 words)

	The Confederate Navy 1861-1865 (Part 1)
		On her completion in February, 1862, the CSS Virginia was a force to be reckoned with; her armament consisted of six 9-inch Dahlgren smoothbores, two rifled 7-inch cannons, and two 6.4-inch Brookes rifles.
		Within 48 hours the CSS Virginia was to be no more -- she was deprived of her home port and had too deep a draft to be able to cross the shoals at that time of the month, so the Confederates had no choice but to scuttle her in order to prevent her capture.
		To obtain cruisers as soon as possible to harass the commerce of the Union and to compel the dispatching of Union men-of-war to hunt these cruisers.
	www.magweb.com /sample/scamp/ca90csn1.htm (2647 words)

	Prologue - Prologue: Selected Articles
		The tenet of domestic law that held that a defendant is "innocent until proven guilty" allowed secretly built Confederate cruisers to be dispatched from British ports because positive proof of the cruiser's destination was nearly impossible to ascertain and arming took place outside British jurisdiction.
		CSS Alabama had shadowed the voyage of several ships of the flotilla from South Africa to the Strait of Malacca.
		Commissioned CSS Shenandoah, the new cruiser worked her way from the Atlantic into the Indian Ocean, refitted in Australia, and cut a swath through the Yankee whaling fleets in the Pacific.
	www.archives.gov /publications/prologue/2001/fall/confederate-fleet-1.html (4979 words)

	Tallahassee, Florida at AllExperts
		Tallahassee is the home of Florida State University, Florida A & M University, and Tallahassee Community College and Pat Thomas Law Enforcement Academy; Barry University, Embry Riddle and Flagler also have branches in Tallahassee.
		That motion was defeated however, and the 1970s saw a long term commitment by the state to the capital city with construction of the new capitol complex and preservation of the old capitol building.
		Educationally, Leon County is the highest educated county in Florida with 49.9% of the population with either a Bachelor's, Master's, professional or doctorate degree.
	en.allexperts.com /e/t/ta/tallahassee,_florida.htm (1924 words)

	CSS Florida Civil War Confederate Navy Ship
		In backing clear we received a few pistol shots from the Florida, which were returned with a volley, and, contrary to my orders, two of my broadside guns were fired, when she surrendered.
		Five of the Florida 's officers, including her commander and the remainder of her crew, were on shore.
		Born and nurtured in war, America grew in strength and power until at the beginning of the 21st century it was the foremost military power in the world.
	www.americancivilwar.com /tcwn/civil_war/Navy_Ships/CSS_Florida.html (1020 words)

	USS Adela
		Meanwhile, during the time Adela was being prepared for active service, CSS Florida and CSS Clarence—a Northern merchant brig which the former Confederate cruiser had eaptured on 6 May 1863, armed, and commissioned as a raider— were causing great consternation among merchants in the North by voraciously preying upon Union shipping.
		Adela cruised unsuccessfully in that direction until her depleted bunkers prompted Stodder to change to a southwesterly course toward Port Royal, S.C. After taking on coal at that Union naval base, the ship got underway on 30 June and arrived in Hampton Roads of the morning of 3 July.
		No record of her voyage to Florida waters seems to have survived but the ship must have reached Key West by 28 August, for she was then under orders to take blockade station off St. Andrew's Sound.
	www.historycentral.com /navy/CWNavy/Adela.html (1898 words)

	Confederate States Steamer (CSS) FLORIDA
		She captured the largest prize of ANY cruiser, the Jacob Bell, valued between 1.5 and 2 Million dollars in 1863.
		She is the ONLY cruiser whose hull remains in the Confederacy.
		The CSS FLORIDA, Her Building and Operations by Owsley (1965 and 1987)
	www.csnavy.org /cssfla.htm (500 words)

	SA-500 Cruiser - Police Siren, Ambulance Siren, and Console Mount Vehicle Emergency Siren is a Full Feature Siren
		The SA-500 Cruiser Siren is one of the most efficient, rugged, reliable and functional 100/200-watt sirens on the market today.
		The SA-500 Cruiser siren features a rotary switch for selecting siren tones and radio, two momentary push buttons for tone override, separate volume controls knobs for Radio and PA, a master on/off switch and a noise-canceling PA microphone.
		The SA-500 Cruiser Siren is designed to power one or two 100-watt siren speakers and includes internal fusing, short circuit, high voltage and reverse polarity protection systems and an output indicator for diagnostic purposes.
	www.carson-mfg.com /sa-500-cruiser.asp (634 words)

	When Liverpool Was Dixie
		The cruiser was seized by the British authorities on June 15th, then released on June 17th, for lack of evidence.
		It was during this phase of the Florida`s career, that Morris had the misfortune to lose one of his officer`s to the sea.
		Collins, after his discussion with the Brazilians maintained his course and went directly for the Florida, ramming her abreast of the mizzenmast, which broke into three pieces, destroyed the bulwarks, knocked the quarterboat on deck, jammed the wheel and carried away the main yard.
	www.csa-dixie.com /liverpool_dixie/florida.htm (4412 words)

	Ahoy - Mac's Web Log - CSS Tallahassee
		Coal was necessary to drive the ship, and her design suitable for journeys of only 1,000 miles, hardly condusive to the role of long days/weeks at sea demanded from a commerce raider.
		Wood did not have sufficient coal to continue cruising, he was making for Bermuda, but on board, yellow fever broke out, he curtailed taking the course to Bermuda, and decided to make for home at Wilmington.
		Wood made a recommendation she be retained as a Raider, and with her name changed to CSS Olustee, under Lieutenant William H. Ward, the ship made a brief sortie along the North Atlantic coast to destroy 6 ships.
	ahoy.tk-jk.net /MaraudersCivilWar/CSSTallahassee.html (1529 words)

	Rear Admiral Raphael Semmes of the Confederate Navy
		Between cruises, he studied law and in 1834, he was admitted to the bar.
		During this cruise, the CSS Alabama captured some 60 Union merchantmen and destroyed one U.S. warship, the USS Hatteras, in a 13-minute battle off Galveston on January 11, 1863.
		The Alabama and the CSS Florida had caused hundreds of U.S. vessels either to remain in port or be transferred to foreign ownership.
	www.mycivilwar.com /leaders/semmes_raphael.htm (978 words)

	HarpWeek: Cartoon of the Day
		Semmes had already demonstrated his talent as captain of the CSS Sumter, a blockade-runner that captured 18 prizes until he was forced to abandon it.
		Buoyed by their success in launching the Florida and Alabama in the summer of 1862, the Confederacy contracted with a British shipbuilding firm, Laird, for the construction of two armor-plated ships (called Laird rams), armed with guns and a seven-foot iron spike intended to pierce wooden vessels below the waterline.
		Although the Britain government had reversed its formerly lenient policy, the issue of British construction and refitting of Confederate warships during the Civil War continued to be a major impediment to improving U.S.-British relations in the post-war period.
	www.harpweek.com /09Cartoon/BrowseByDateCartoon.asp?Month=November&Date=1 (747 words)

	USS Ticonderoga Veterans Site
		Cruiser construction went on in the shipyard as it continued to build the second, third, and fourth TICONDEROGA Class cruisers.
		She was commissioned in May 1944 and made a West Indies shakedown cruise prior to transiting the Panama Canal to the Pacific in early September.
		She was then directed to search for the Confederate cruiser CSS Florida, work that continued until October.
	www.ussticonderoga.com /info.htm (1954 words)

	Works - George H. Preble
		He was in the Florida war in 1841, and was on the USS St. Louis for its circumnavigation of the world in 1843-1845, taking ashore the first American force to land in China.
		After a period as lighthouse inspector and at Charlestown Navy Yard, he served on the USS Narragansett, 1859-1861, then took command of the gunboat USS Katahdin (1861), serving with David Farragut on the Mississippi River, and was promoted to commander 16 July 1862.
		When the Confederate cruiser CSS Florida (cruiser) eluded him, Preble was dismissed from the Navy, but reinstated after the captain of the Florida testified that superior speed alone had saved him.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /Abbott5052/george-h-preble-works.html (446 words)

	navychronology1864b
		Florida, Lieutenant Morris, captured and burned bark Harriet Stevens at sea southwest of Bermuda with cargo of lumber, cement, and gum opium; Morris sent the opium in a blockade runner for hospital use.
		Florida made yet another capture that day, the mail steamer Electric Spark, her passengers were transferred to a passing British ship, Lane.
		Terrapin, at Jupiter Inlet, Florida, with cargo of cotton and turpentine.
	www.usnlp.org /navychronology/1864b.html (12468 words)

	Cruise Line Law Reporter- admiralty & maritime newsletter.
		Appeals Court Holds That Florida Constitution Provides That Florida's (East Coast) Territorial Waters Extend To The Outside Of The Gulf Stream (Well Beyond Three Miles But Possibly Limited By Twelve Miles) So That A Cruise Ship's Doctor Who Allegedly Committed Malpractice 11.7 Nautical Miles East Of Florida's Coastline Is Subject To Florida's Long Arm Jurisdiction.
		Since no dispute existed that the ship's doctor was a nonresident of Florida, the question was whether her alleged medical malpractice occurred within Florida's territorial boundaries.
		Accordingly, it found that the ship was in Florida's territorial waters and that long arm personal jurisdiction existed over her.
	www.lipcon.com /cllr_jan_03.shtml (2194 words)

	USS Mobile Bay (CG 53)
		The cruiser was commissioned on 21 February 1987 at the Alabama State Docks in Mobile, Alabama.
		In June of 1990, MOBILE BAY shifted homeports from Mayport, Florida to Yokosuka, Japan.
		MOBILE BAY launched 22 Tomahawk land-attack cruise missile strikes, and controlling carrier-launched attack aircraft that contributed to the complete destruction of the Iraqi Navy.
	www.navysite.de /cg/cg53.html (1703 words)

	Mollus War Papers
		The Florida was a two funnel steamer, a little smaller than the Alabama, and carried eight rifled guns.
		Of the sixty-six vessels captured by the Alabama, fifty-two were burned, ten released on bond, the Hatteras sunk in action, the Conrad commissioned as a Confederate tender to the Alabama, one was sold, and one released as an unlawful capture.
		The damage inflicted on American shipping by the Confederate cruisers, which were allowed to be fitted out in England, cost the English government fifteen million, five hundred thousand dollars ($15,500,000) which sum was paid to the United States in settlement of the so-called Alabama claims.
	suvcw.org /mollus/warpapers/MAv1a2p11.htm (4435 words)

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		He further states that he is sure that Captain Bullock is the owner of the gunboat and that she belongs to the same parties as the "Oroto" s.s (gunboat) (now the "Florida") which was built by W.C. Miller Toxteth Dock and for the same purpose viz:- for cruising about on the American coast.
		She cannot do more that 10 knots and that she rolls terribly, so much so, that they were obliged to cover up the guns to prevent them from getting wet.
		He also says, he believes it to be the Captain's intention to cruise about the channel for a while, and then make west, to intercept the Californian Mails, states that the "Bahama" s.s is a faster boat than the "290".
	www.lib.ua.edu /libraries/hoole/digital/cssala/spy.htm (3269 words)

	The CSS Alabama story is told to the Pensacola Historical Society
		This Confederate cruiser was built in England, sailed to the Azores, and commissioned by Captain Raphael Semmes as a Confederate States Steamer.
		The most successful of any cruiser set against an enemy's maritime commerce, during her 22 months at sea she captured 66 Union ships, commissioned one as a Confederate warship, sank the USS HATTERAS, and boarded 447 ships of all flags.
		The CSS ALABAMA was sunk in an engagement with the USS KEARSARGE during an engagement off Cherboug, France, on June 19, 1864.
	www.brownmarine.com /phs_jan2000.htm (243 words)

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