3-011-728 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Deerhound rescuing a portion of the crew of The Alabama, 1864. American Civil War - view of the sea battle off Cherbourg on 19th June, '...from the plan and information supplied by Mr. George T. Fullam, an officer of the Alabama'. The USS Kearsarge sank the confederate ship Alabama, originally called No. 290. The yacht Deerhound, owned by Robert Lancaster, '...was present during the whole of the battle, and was happily instrumental in saving the lives of Captain Semmes, thirteen officers, and twenty-six men of the Alabama, when they had leaped into the water as their ship went down...Captain Winslow [of the Kearsarge] does not mention the way in which the officers and crew of the Alabama were saved upon the sinking of their ship...The Deerhound has earned, in our opinion, the fairest honours of the day. Mr. Lancaster and his captain indignantly deny the statement that an arrangement was made with the Deerhound by Captain Semmes, before the engagement, that the yacht should hover about the combatants and render assistance to the Alabama'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.