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USS Adela, the Glossary

USS Adela was a steamer captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War.^[1]

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1860s ships
Vessels captured by the United States Navy

Abaco Islands

The Abaco Islands lie in the northern Bahamas, about 193 miles (167.7 nautical miles or 310.6 km) east of Miami, Florida.

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Admiralty court

Admiralty courts, also known as maritime courts, are courts exercising jurisdiction over all maritime contracts, torts, injuries, and offences.

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The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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Apalachicola, Florida

Apalachicola is a city and the county seat of Franklin County, Florida, United States, on the shore of Apalachicola Bay, an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico.

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Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was shot by John Wilkes Booth while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Shot in the head as he watched the play, Lincoln died of his wounds the following day at 7:22 am in the Petersen House opposite the theater.

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Battle of Hampton Roads

The Battle of Hampton Roads, also referred to as the Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack (rebuilt and renamed as the CSS Virginia) or the Battle of Ironclads, was a naval battle during the American Civil War.

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Belfast

Belfast (from Béal Feirste) is the capital city and principal port of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan and connected to the open sea through Belfast Lough and the North Channel.

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Bermuda

Bermuda (historically known as the Bermudas or Somers Isles) is a British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean.

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Blockade runner

A blockade runner is a merchant vessel used for evading a naval blockade of a port or strait.

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Brooklyn Navy Yard

The Brooklyn Navy Yard (originally known as the New York Navy Yard) is a shipyard and industrial complex in northwest Brooklyn in New York City, New York, U.S. The Navy Yard is located on the East River in Wallabout Bay, a semicircular bend of the river across from Corlears Hook in Manhattan.

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Commanding officer

The commanding officer (CO) or commander, or sometimes, if the incumbent is a general officer, commanding general (CG) or general officer commanding (GOC), is the officer in command of a military unit.

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Confederate States of America

The Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States (C.S.), the Confederacy, or the South, was an unrecognized breakaway republic in the Southern United States that existed from February 8, 1861, to May 9, 1865.

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CSS Archer

CSS Archer was originally a fishing schooner captured by the Confederate cruiser CSS ''Tacony'' during the American Civil War and converted into a Confederate cruiser for commerce raiding.

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CSS Clarence

CSS Clarence, also known as Coquette, was originally a brig from Baltimore captured by the Confederate cruiser CSS ''Florida'' during the American Civil War and converted into a Confederate cruiser for commerce raiding.

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CSS Florida (cruiser)

CSS Florida was a sloop-of-war in the service of the Confederate States Navy.

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Cunard Line

The Cunard Line is a British shipping and cruise line based at Carnival House at Southampton, England, operated by Carnival UK and owned by Carnival Corporation & plc.

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Ferry

A ferry is a boat that transports passengers, and occasionally vehicles and cargo, across a body of water.

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Flag of the United States

The national flag of the United States, often referred to as the American flag or the U.S. flag, consists of thirteen horizontal stripes, alternating red and white, with a blue rectangle in the canton bearing fifty small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows, where rows of six stars alternate with rows of five stars.

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Fort Brooke

Fort Brooke was a historical military post established at the mouth of the Hillsborough River in present-day Tampa, Florida in 1824.

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Gideon Welles

Gideon Welles (July 1, 1802 – February 11, 1878), nicknamed "Father Neptune", was the United States Secretary of the Navy from 1861 to 1869, a cabinet post he was awarded after supporting Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 election.

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Glasgow

Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in west central Scotland.

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Government auction

A government auction or a public auction is an auction held on behalf of a government in which the property to be auctioned is either property owned by the government or property which is sold under the authority of a court of law or a government agency with similar authority.

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Gunboat

A gunboat is a naval watercraft designed for the express purpose of carrying one or more guns to bombard coastal targets, as opposed to those military craft designed for naval warfare, or for ferrying troops or supplies.

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Hampton Roads

Hampton Roads is the name of both a body of water in the United States that serves as a wide channel for the James, Nansemond, and Elizabeth rivers between Old Point Comfort and Sewell's Point near where the Chesapeake Bay flows into the Atlantic Ocean, and the surrounding metropolitan region located in the southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina portions of the Tidewater Region.

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Havana

Havana (La Habana) is the capital and largest city of Cuba.

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Hillsborough River (Florida)

The Hillsborough River is a river located in the state of Florida in the United States.

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Indian River (Florida)

The Indian River is a long brackish lagoon in Florida.

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Key West

Key West is an island in the Straits of Florida, within the U.S. state of Florida.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a cathedral, port city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England.

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Louis N. Stodder

Louis Napoleon Stodder (February 12, 1837 – October 8, 1911) was a U.S. Navy officer who served in the American Civil War as acting master on the famous when it fought the ''Merrimack'' at Hampton Roads on March 8–9, 1862.

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Mobile, Alabama

Mobile is a city and the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama, United States.

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Nassau, Bahamas

Nassau is the capital and largest city of The Bahamas.

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New Providence

New Providence is the most populous island in the Bahamas, containing more than 70% of the total population.

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North Carolina

North Carolina is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Ocracoke Inlet

Ocracoke Inlet, from the North Carolina Collection's website at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Parrott rifle

The Parrott rifle was a type of muzzle-loading rifled artillery weapon used extensively in the American Civil War.

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Port Royal, South Carolina

Port Royal is a town on Port Royal Island in Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States.

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Portland, Maine

Portland is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maine and the seat of Cumberland County.

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Potomac Flotilla

The Potomac Flotilla, also called the Potomac Squadron, was a unit of the United States Navy created in the early days of the American Civil War to secure Union communications in the Chesapeake Bay, the Potomac River and their tributaries, and to disrupt Confederate communications and shipping there.

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Schooner

A schooner is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than the mainmast.

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Sloop

A sloop is a sailboat with a single mast typically having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast.

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SS Great Eastern

SS Great Eastern was an iron sail-powered, paddle wheel and screw-propelled steamship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and built by John Scott Russell & Co.

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St. Andrew Sound

St.

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St. Marks, Florida

St.

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Steam engine

A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.

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Steamship

A steamship, often referred to as a steamer, is a type of steam-powered vessel, typically ocean-faring and seaworthy, that is propelled by one or more steam engines that typically move (turn) propellers or paddlewheels.

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Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay is a large natural harbor and shallow estuary connected to the Gulf of Mexico on the west-central coast of Florida, comprising Hillsborough Bay, McKay Bay, Old Tampa Bay, Middle Tampa Bay, and Lower Tampa Bay.

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Tampa, Florida

Tampa is a city on the Gulf Coast of the U.S. state of Florida.

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The Bahamas

The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Theodorus Bailey (officer)

Theodorus Bailey (April 12, 1805 – February 10, 1877) was a United States Navy officer during the American Civil War.

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Union blockade

The Union blockade in the American Civil War was a naval strategy by the United States to prevent the Confederacy from trading.

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Union Navy

The Union Navy is used to describe the United States Navy (USN) during the American Civil War, when it fought the Confederate States Navy (CSN).

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United States Secretary of the Navy

The secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) is a statutory officer and the head (chief executive officer) of the Department of the Navy, a military department within the United States Department of Defense.

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USS Monitor

USS Monitor was an ironclad warship built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War and completed in early 1862, the first such ship commissioned by the Navy.

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USS Sagamore (1861)

USS Sagamore was a built on behalf of the United States Navy for service during the American Civil War. USS Adela and USS Sagamore (1861) are American Civil War patrol vessels of the United States, ships of the Union Navy and steamships of the United States Navy.

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Virginia Capes

The Virginia Capes are the two capes, Cape Charles to the north and Cape Henry to the south, that define the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay on the eastern coast of North America.

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Warship

A warship or combatant ship is a ship that is built and primarily intended for naval warfare.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Adela

Also known as Adela (blockade runner), CSS Adela, USS Adela (1862).

, Union blockade, Union Navy, United States Secretary of the Navy, USS Monitor, USS Sagamore (1861), Virginia Capes, Warship.

USS Adela, the Glossary

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1860s ships

Vessels captured by the United States Navy

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