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Author: XhosaNavy
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An American Confederate three-masted schooner with an auxiliary steam engine built in 1862. Although the British, who had declared their neutrality during the American Civil War, tried to detain her, she slipped out to sea and took aboard her armaments in the Azores. She was commanded by Captain Raphael Semmes and operated against Federal shipping until sunk by the KEARSARGE in 1864. She cruised off the South African coast in 1863 calling in at Saldanha Bay, Cape Town and Simon's Town where her visits became immortalised in the well known South African song "Daar kom die Aliebama:
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Sisikhephe esineemasti ezimbini zeManyano saseMelika esine-enjini yokuncedisa yomphunga eyakhiwa ngo-1862. Nangona iBritane, eyathi yiyo yiyo eyakha le-injini ngexesha leMfazwe yobuKhaya yaseMelika, yazama ukuyibamaba, yaphuncuka yemka nezixhobo zayo kwi-Azores. Sasiyalelwa nguKapteni Raphael Semmes kwaye yayisetynziswa ngokuchasene nokuhanjiswa ngokudibeneyo nezinye iinqanawa yada yazikiswa yi-KEARSARGE ngo-1864. Yanduluka kulwandle loMzantsi Afrika ngo-1863 isiya e-Saldanha Bay, eKapa nase Simon's Town apho undwendwelo lwayo lwagcinwa kwade kwaqanjwa ingoma eyaziwa kakhulu yoMzantsi Afrika ethi "Daar kom die Aliebama".