CSS Alabama
The CSS Alabama had been hugely successful in sinking Union cargo ships yet it never was engaged in a sea battle with a Union warship. This changed in January of 1863. The USS Hatteras was on blockade duty off the coast of Galveston, Texas. The Alabama and the Hatters had a short engagement in which the Hatteras was lost due to the better cannons of the CSS Alabama.
CSS Alabama was created on 1862-08-24.
CSS Alabama ended on 1864-06-19.
What would become the CSS Alabama was built in Liverpool for the Confederate States of America. In order to avoid breaking the UK's neutrality laws, the ship sailed with a British crew to the Azores where eight guns were loaded on to the ship. Captain Semmes met the ship there and soon the new CSS Alabama was ready to begin sinking Union cargo ships.
The CSS Alabama was sunk by the US Navy off the coast of France, near Cherbourg, in 1864.
Confederate States Ship Alabama .
The CSS Alabama was basically destroyed off the coast of Cherourge, France. The serious damage was the result of the cannon fire from the USS Kearsarge .
The Union ship, Kearsarge, sunk the Confederate ship, Alabama.
The US ship, Kearsarge, sunk the Alabama near Cherbourg, France.
You mean the Battle of Cherbourg. Well, after the battle was over USS Kearsarge was still afloat, and CSS Alabama was underwater. I'd have to say the Union won this one.
The CSS Alabama was commissioned on August 24, 1862. It was built by Great Britain and was disguised as a supply ship while in British waters. It became a deadly Southern warship.