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Agrippina

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Civil War Campaign Medal
Bark:
  • Built in 1834 as the British bark Agrippina at Scarborough by the Tindall yard
  • Launched, date unknown
  • Agrippina engaged in the Mediterranean trade until either bought or chartered secretly by the Confederacy in 1862
  • She acted as the first and principal tender to the raider CSS Alabama
  • Orders of 28 July 1862 written by CDR.Bulloch and signed by the "owner," Mr. A. Hamilton, of London, instructed British CAPT. Alexander McQueen to proceed to Praya, Island off Terceira in the Azores and await the Enrica (Alabama) and to take his orders from the British master CAPT, Matthew S. Butcher until he is relived by CDR. Raphael Semmes, CSN
  • Later Agrippina, coaled and rearmed Alabama at uninhabited Blanquilla Island in the Caribbean, at Praya again in mid-January 1864, and elsewhere, while Federal cruisers searched in her wake all over the Caribbean and South Atlantic
  • Once in May-June 1863 USS Mohican and USS Onward cornered both Agrippina and Castor, CSS Georgia's tender, in Bahia and stayed there in Brazilian waters until their presence forced the two barks to sell their coal and gunpowder in consideration of a clearance from the port; Agrippina loaded "pecava" and rosewood for London, thus being unable to meet Semmes at the Cape of Good Hope as ordered
    Specifications:
    Displacement 285 t.
    Length 97'
    Beam 24'4"
    Depth of Hold 15'5"
    Draft unknown
    Speed unknown
    Complement unknown
    Armament unknown
    Propulsion sail
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