USS Adela (1862)
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. USS Adela (1862) was a steamer captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a gunboat in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways. In the spring of 1862, when the American Civil War was about a year old, Adela -- a fast, iron-hulled, sidewheel steamer which had been operating out of Belfast, Ireland, as a merchantman was purchased by some now unidentified agent who planned to use her for carrying arms…mehr

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. USS Adela (1862) was a steamer captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a gunboat in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways. In the spring of 1862, when the American Civil War was about a year old, Adela -- a fast, iron-hulled, sidewheel steamer which had been operating out of Belfast, Ireland, as a merchantman was purchased by some now unidentified agent who planned to use her for carrying arms and other contraband cargo through the Union blockade to the Confederacy. She steamed in ballast via Glasgow to Liverpool in May and toward the end of that month cleared the latter port, bound for the Bahamas where she planned to fill her holds with ordnance for the Confederate forces.