Trivia #12 Escaped! (6/19/2013)

[chellers]

Captain Semmes and 41 others

 

[Horse]

38 to 41

 

[AUG]

41

 

[sockknitter]

I have read 36 to 40 in various documents.

 

[Mark F. Jenkins]

Forty-one, per p. 257 of William Marvel's The Alabama & the Kearsarge: The Sailor's Civil War, a terrific book that I can never recommend highly enough.

 

[GELongstreet]

ca. 30

 

[bixby272]

42 including Capitan Semmes

 

[ExNavyPilot]

The British yacht Deerhound picked up Semmes and 41 others of his crew after his ship, CSS Alabama, sank in the battle with the USS Kearsarge off Cherbourg, per the Naval History and Heritage Command.

 

[sarladaise]

42

 

[recon1au]

38 to 41 Confederate sailors

 

[Trivia Master]

I'll accept anything between 30 and 42.