RG 21 - U.S. District Courts, Admiralty Case Files - Alabama Confederate Court
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Admiralty Case Files, 1861-1865
National Archives Identifier 4558425
This series consists of case files relating to admiralty claims. They deal with such matters as prizes, ransom, and military salvage; petitory suits to try title to a ship independently of possession of the vessel; possessory actions to recover ships to which a party is entitled by right; and a great variety of maritime contracts and torts. Typical maritime contracts relate to charter parties; affreightment; the carriage of passengers and their baggage, and the carriage of goods; marine insurance; demurrage; pilotage; towage; lighterage; wharfage; and for the purchase of supplies and repairs; salvage; bottomry; seamen's wages; and the maintenance and care of ill or injured seamen. Typical maritime torts involve collision; loss of or injury to a cargo; and personal injury or ill usage arising between the master and officers on one hand and the seamen or passengers on the other.
| Box Number |
Case Number |
Plaintiff |
Defendant |
Year |
Notes |
| 1 |
|
Confederate States |
Schooner Hortense |
1861 |
|
| 1 |
|
Carson, Ben et al |
Schooner May & Cargo |
1861 |
|
| 1 |
2 |
Phelps |
Schooner Smith Townsend |
1861 |
|
| 1 |
4 |
Confederate States |
Steam Boat Planter |
1861 |
|
| 1 |
5 |
Confederate States |
Ship Danube |
1861 |
2 folders |
| 1 |
329 |
Martin, Michael, L. |
Six Bales of District Cotton |
1865 |
|
| 1 |
6 |
Andrews, Greenleaf, et al |
Steamer Fox |
1863 |
2 folders |
| 1 |
|
Duke, James, et al |
Steamer Boston |
1863 |
|
| 1 |
|
Gee, James, T. |
Steamer Denbeigh et Cargo |
1863 |
|
| 1 |
|
Duke, James, et al |
Barge Lenox |
1863 |
|
| 1 |
|
Jefferson, E.M. |
Schooner Adelaid |
1864 |
|
| 1 |
|
Duke, James, et al |
Schooner Norman |
1863 |
|
| 1 |
|
Foster, P.O., et al |
Ship Donegal & Cargo |
1864 |
|
| 1 |
|
Jefferson |
Schooner Martha & Cargo |
1862 |
|
| 1 |
|
Simpkins |
Three Boats |
1862 |
|
| 1 |
|
Duke, James |
Barge Tesiana & Cargo |
1863 |
|
| 1 |
|
Dick, Steamer, et al |
Steamer Donegal & Cargo |
N/A |
|
| 1 |
|
Smith Booth & Ufford |
Burke |
1833 |
|
| 1 |
|
Confederate States |
Schooner Isabel |
1862 |
|
