Shenandoah and Alabama

[USS ALASKA]

https://vineyardgazette.com/news/2016/07/07/war-ships-past-educational-beauties-today

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USS ALASKA

 

[Carronade]

Good article except for "Capt. Raphael Semmes had no compunction about burning Union ships even after he knew his Confederates had lost the war." First of course they are mistaking Semmes for Waddell. More importantly, Waddell continued operations while the situation was ambiguous; Lee had surrendered, but the last word from commander in chief Davis was to carry on regardless. Waddell ceased operations when it became clear that the war was over.

Nor does Waddell hold the record for postwar combat. The American sloop Peacock attacked and captured the East India Company brig Nautilus on June 30, 1815, over four months after the peace treaty ending the War of 1812 had been ratified (February 17; it had been signed in Ghent on December 24, 1814).

Fun fact - the first ship captured in the War of 1812 was also a brig named Nautilus, but American.