CSS Sumter
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css-sumter-314-2498478
title:
CSS Sumter
text:
CSS Sumter, converted from the 1859-built merchant steamer Habana, was the first steam cruiser of the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. She operated as a commerce raider in the Caribbean and in the Atlantic Ocean against Union merchant shipping between July and December 1861, taking eighteen prizes, but was trapped in Gibraltar by Union Navy warships. Decommissioned, she was sold in 1862 to the British office of a Confederate merchant and renamed Gibraltar, successfully runn
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Steam cruiser of the Confederate States Navy
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS_Sumter
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date modified:
2023-11-12T22:00:15Z
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13
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