CSS Alabama Model Ship Kit Sloop 1862 – Mamoli (MV53)

The CSS Alabama Steam and Sail Sloop of War 1862 Model Ship Kit is manufactured by Mamoli Model Ship Kits & Mamoli Model Boat Kits. Mamoli focuses on historical accuracy and fidelity of scale. Mamoli wooden model ship kits offer a large variety of subject matter to please almost everyone. The materials used in their wooden model ship kits are always first class and the plans are highly detailed.

History of the CSS Alabama

CSS ALABAMA – Steam and sail sloop of war 1862, the most famous ship of the American Civil War, was a steam and sail sloop-of-war built for the Confederacy in 1862 by John Laird Sons & Co. in Liverpool, England under Captain Raphael Seames CSS Alabama engaged Union ships in the North Atlantic and the West Indies doing immense damage to the Union’s maritime trade. After leaving Cherbourg, France, where she had docked for repairs/CSS Alabama was assaulted by Kearsage. Although CSS Alabama fired more rounds than her heavily armoured opponent she lost the battle and was sunk off of Cherbourg.