Habana (called Havana by some sources), a 437-ton steamship, was launched at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in December 1857. During the late 1850s and early 1860s she was employed in commercial trade between New Orleans, Louisiana, and Havana, Cuba. She was purchased by the Confederacy in April 1861 and converted at New Orleans into the cruiser CSS Sumter. Sold to private interests in December 1862, she was renamed Gibraltar and made two successful blockade running voyages during the remainder of the American Civil War. She was reportedly lost in a storm in the English Channel in 1867.
This page features our only view of the steamship Habana, also called Habana.
For views of this ship as a Confederate cruiser, see: CSS Sumter (1861-1862).
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For views of this ship as a Confederate cruiser, see: CSS Sumter (1861-1862).
If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
Page made 11 February 2001