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Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 42: (search)
Bathiah Thayer; the Punjaub; the morning Star; the Kingfisher; the Charles Hill; and the Nora crosses the equator capture of the Louisa Hatch arrival at Fernando de Noronha. Reaching the blazed road, of which I spoke in the last chapter, I shortened sail, at the crossing mentioned, that I might waylay such of the passengers ply myself from her, by means of my boats, and hauling the two ships alongside of each other, at sea, was not to be thought of. I was bound to the island of Fernando de Noronha, that being the second rendezvous which I had assigned to my old Scotch collier, the Agrippina, and I resolved to take the Hatch in, with me, to abide conti. I now got up steam, and taking the prize in tow, for it was nearly calm, with but a few cats'-paws playing upon the water, made the best of my way toward Fernando de Noronha. At daylight, the next morning, we made the famous peak, some forty miles distant, and at half-past 2 P. M. we came to anchor in thirteen fathoms water.
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 43: (search)
Chapter 43: Fernando de Noronha its famous peak is a penal settlement of Brazil a vRing, and the rainy and dry seasons. Fernando de Noronha lies not a great way from Cape St. Roquocalities assigned them. The island of Fernando de Noronha is evidently of volcanic origin. Its wuman hands. We lay nearly two weeks at Fernando de Noronha, and I was never tired of gazing upon tine, goats, and domestic fowls abound. Fernando de Noronha stands as a great sign-board, as it wer we had seen and heard in the island of Fernando de Noronha. The next morning the Governor's wife the tallest pulling done, that day, at Fernando de Noronha, that was ever done by a Yankee boat's island. A number of ships that passed Fernando de Noronha that night, must have been astonished aland of Martinique, in the West Indies. Fernando de Noronha, where we are now lying in the Alabama,:— Figure 1 represents the island of Fernando de Noronha still under the Cloud Ring. It is earl
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 44: (search)
Chapter 44: The Alabama leaves Fernando de Noronha for a cruise on the coast of Brazil enters the great highway and begins to overhaul the travellers capture of the whaler Nye; of the Dorcas Prince; of the Union Jack; of the sea Lark a reverend Consul taken prisoner Alabama goes into Bahia what occurred there arrter—of a cruise on the coast of Brazil. In my stanch and fleet little ship, I was in a condition to defy both winds and currents. On the day after leaving Fernando de Noronha, I observed in latitude 5° 45′ S., and had thus run entirely from under the Cloud Ring. We were met by a bright sky, and the first gentle breathings of thet province. It was written after the style of a proclamation, was signed by the President, and strangely enough addressed to myself—supposed to be still at Fernando de Noronha, with the Alabama. After charging me with sundry violations of the neutrality of Brazil, it ordered me to depart the island, within twenty-four hours. In
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 45: (search)
we established at the crossing of the thirtieth parallel, north, all bound in this direction. And he has seen how this stream sweeps along by the island of Fernando de Noronha, on its way to the great highway on the coast of Brazil. The road thus far is wide—the ships having a large discretion. But when the road has crossed the abama—and he had a number of both heavier and faster ships—at the crossing of the 30th parallel; another at or near the equator, a little to the eastward of Fernando de Noronha, and a third off Bahia, he must have driven me off, or greatly crippled me in my movements. A few more ships in the other chief highways, and his commerce ers from merchants at Cape Town, welcoming us to the colony, and offering to supply us with coal, or whatever else we might need. I had left orders both at Fernando de Noronha, and Bahia, for the Agrippina, if she should arrive at either of those places, after my departure, to make the best of her way to Saldanha Bay, and await me<
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 48: (search)
the ocean are intensely heated by the fervor of an Indian and African sun, and flow off in quest of cooler regions through the Mozambique Channel. Passing thence over the Agulhas Bank, which lies a short distance to the eastward of the Cape of Good Hope, they reach that Cape, as the Agulhas current. Here it divides into two main prongs or branches; one prong pursuing a westerly course, and joining in with the great equatorial current, which, the reader recollects, we encountered off Fernando de Noronha, and the other bending sharply to the south-east, and forming the Gulf Stream of the South Indian Ocean, in which the Alabama is at present. What it is, that gives this latter prong its sudden deflection to the southward is not well understood. Probably it is influenced, to some extent, by the southerly current, running at the rate of about a knot an hour along the west coast of Africa, and debouching at the Cape of Good Hope. Here it strikes the Agulhas current at right angles, an
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 53: (search)
de. We did even greater damage to the enemy's trade with other powers. We broke up almost entirely his trade with Brazil, and the other South American States, greatly crippled his Pacific trade, and as for his East India trade, it is only necessary to refer the reader to the spectacle presented at Singapore, to show him what had become of that. I threw my ship, now, into the fair way, leading from the Cape of Good Hope, to the equatorial crossing, east of our old trysting-place, Fernando de Noronha; shortening sail, from time to time, and see-sawing across the highway, to give any Yankee ships that might be travelling it, the opportunity to come up with me. I held myself in check, a day or two, in the vicinity of St. Helena, experiencing all the vicissitudes of weather, so feelingly complained of by the Great Captive on that barren rock. Leaving St. Helena, we jogged along leisurely under topsails, the stream of commerce flowing past us, but there being no Yankee ships in the S