During the Civil War the British built for the CSA naval cruisers that were used to attack Union merchant fleets. Some of the most famous cruisers were the Florida, Georgia, Sumter, Shenandoah, Chameleon and Tallahassee. The most well known was the Alabama. The ship was allowed by the British to go to sea and "taken to one of the Azores Islands". This source states the following. "The officers were confederates the crew British".
(Source: History of the United States Volume IV by E. Benjamin Andrews of the University of Nebraska and Brown University. 1913 by Charles Scribner's Sons
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