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L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion, chapter 3.57 (search)
eeping around the stern of the Albemarle, the Sassacus paid her attentions to the Bombshell, by whosrder was promptly executed in good faith, the Sassacus turned again to the Albemarle, whom she foundwas just then most opportunely exposed to the Sassacus, now only some eight hundred yards distant. unds of steam on, and throttle wide open, the Sassacus dashed upon her adversary, under a headway ofhull was forced under water by the bow of the Sassacus, till the water flowed over it from side to sAlbemarle blackening the bows and side of the Sassacus, as they passed within ten feet. A solid shotnd. Then, as the ram passed the wheel of the Sassacus, the crew of the latter drove solid shot intothis thick white cloud of stifling vapor, the Sassacus moved on, working slowly ahead on a vacuum alad vanquished her. The gallant captain of the Sassacus could not refrain from giving her another turolina from being lost to our Government. The Sassacus, although disabled in guns, machinery, and hu[12 more...]
L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion, chapter 3.58 (search)
The destruction of the Albemarle. The rebel iron-clad ram, the Albemarle, whose contest with and discomfiture by the Sassacus, in May, 1864, has been previously described in this volume, and which had become a formidable obstruction to the occupation of the North Carolina sounds by the Union forces, finally met her fate in October of the same year. During the previous summer, Lieutenant W. B. Cushing, commanding the Monticello, one of the sixteen vessels engaged in watching the ram, conceived the plan of destroying their antagonist by means of a torpedo. Upon submitting the plan to Rear-Admiral Lee and the Navy Department, he was detached from his vessel, and sent to New York to provide the articles necessary for his purpose, and these preparations having been at last completed, he returned again to the scene of action. His plan was to affix his newly-contrived torpedo apparatus to one of the picket launches-little steamers not larger than a seventy-four's launch, but fitted w