Bermuda Confederate Headquarters and the Globe Hotel St. George's Parish

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I thought you mike like these photos as well. These were at the museum in Hamilton in Bermuda. Confederate Naval Swords from England and the flag Washington flew in The First Revolution. Y’all can also see Confederate bills too....

Completely agree !

Great Bermuda tour @8thFlorida .
 
Great pictures! I am very surprised with how small the flag is though. And how did Bermuda ever get it?
 
Nautical flag etiquette of longstanding is in order here.

Typically, a ship's national flag will be an inch long for every foot of the ship's length.

Many vessels also fly 'courtesy flags' from their rigging that acknowledge the jurisdictional waters they're transiting. These are typically a half-inch long per each foot of the ship's length over all.

Many different sized vessels landed at Bermuda during both the American Revolution and the American Civil War.

Ergo, an eighty-foot vessel would fly an eighty-inch national flag, plus a 40-inch courtesy Bermudan (or Confederate) flag and so on, depending on the vessel's size.
 
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Indeed - until Yellow Fever struck...

Year / White / Coloured / Military / Convicts & Officers / Total Deaths / Total Population / Percent of Population

1864 / 217 / 20 / 206 / 28 / 471 / 13536 / 3.5%

Before anyone asks, I have no idea why the compiler grouped Convicts & Officers together...

Cheers,
USS ALASKA
I included this display regarding the yellow fever epidemic.
 
Thank you @8thFlorida. I love Bermuda and know where I will tour the next time I visit!!!
Here is a good map if you dive at all. I haven’t studied it too much but I can see at least one blockade runner the Mary Celestia was wrecked off the coast of Southampton Parish.
 

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Here is a good map if you dive at all. I haven’t studied it too much but I can see at least one blockade runner the Mary Celestia was wrecked off the coast of Southampton Parish.
Mary Celestia has long been rumored to have been run aground intentionally. There's a Bermudan production company that has uncovered additional evidence of that, and completed principal photography for a documentary, but as far as I'm aware it has not been released.

It's a very well-known and spectacular wreck for diving.

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Similar feathering paddlewheel shown here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/36584779@N05/albums/72157645030234676
 
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Mary Celestia has long been rumored to have been run aground intentionally. There's a Bermudan production company that has uncovered additional evidence of that, and completed principal photography for a documentary, but as far as I'm aware it has not been released.

It's a very well-known and spectacular wreck for diving.

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Similar feathering paddlewheel shown here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/36584779@N05/albums/72157645030234676

I would love to see this wreck. Thanks @AndyHall for adding to the thread.
 
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And as if we needed any more evidence as to how pro Southern the island was, I just read an article from 2012 in which the National Museum of Bermuda found archived pictures of the island from 1861 in which the Bonnie Blue flag is prominently displayed over British Bermuda. The article claims that the Bonnie Blue Flag was also flown over Ft. Sumter at the outbreak of war. Bermuda attitudes were decidedly pro Southern and they despised the Union Consul Charles Maxwell Allen. The article is a MUST read from Bermuda’s Royal Gazette.

http://mobile.royalgazette.com/article/20120414/ISLAND09/704149973



Nautical flag etiquette of longstanding is in order here.

Typically, a ship's national flag will be an inch long for every foot of the ship's length.

Many vessels also fly 'courtesy flags' from their rigging that acknowledge the jurisdictional waters they're transiting. These are typically a half-inch long per each foot of the ship's length over all.

Many different sized vessels landed at Bermuda during both the American Revolution and the American Civil War.

Ergo, an eighty-foot vessel would fly an eighty-inch national flag, plus a 40-inch courtesy Bermudan (or Confederate) flag and so on, depending on the vessel's size.[/QUOTE
 
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Mary Celestia has long been rumored to have been run aground intentionally. There's a Bermudan production company that has uncovered additional evidence of that, and completed principal photography for a documentary, but as far as I'm aware it has not been released.

It's a very well-known and spectacular wreck for diving.

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Similar feathering paddlewheel shown here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/36584779@N05/albums/72157645030234676
The Montana is another great Blockade Runner wreck. I’m sure you’re familiar but it’s just as interesting. This is the bow from the website below. The wreck is found in the map I posted as well.
http://bermudasun.bm/content/news/l...a-wreck-features-in-uk-tv-series/3/1297/76775
 
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This is great stuff @8thFlorida . Don't know how I missed this thread. It was about to be pushed off the page too.
 
This is great stuff @8thFlorida . Don't know how I missed this thread. It was about to be pushed off the page too.
Thanks for keeping it alive @bdtex . This is a topic I really am getting into because I haven’t read too much about it and I think it’s very interesting to others as well. Really cool topic and we combined our love of history with our vacation. I have a few more interesting pictures as well. I can share them when I have time.
 
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