3-016-978 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Confederate cruiser Georgia, 1864. Engraving from a drawing by Mr. Frank Wilson, of Birkenhead. '...the steamer Georgia, in the naval service of the Confederate States of America...formed the subject of a debate in the House of Commons on Friday, the 13th May, when Mr. Thomas Baring contended that the British ports ought to be shut against her, because she had been originally equipped and sent forth from a British port in violation of the laws of this neutral State...the Georgia, which was formerly called, the Japan..., was equipped by a Liverpool firm. Her crew was shipped by the same Liverpool firm for Shanghai, and sent round to Greenock by steamer...From the very first, however, the Georgia has been carrying on war against the United States, cruising in the Atlantic and burning a number of vessels. Her crew have now been paid off in Liverpool without any concealment, and the vessel is now laid up'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.