{"product_id":"css-alabama-w-o-sail","title":"CSS Alabama w\/o Sail","description":"\u003cp\u003eDimenssion: L: 31.5 W: 9.5 H: 23.5 Inches\u003cbr\u003eHistory: In 1862, John Laird Sons and Company of Liverpool, England built the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama for the Confederate States of America. Launched as Enrica, the vessel was fitted out as a cruiser and commissioned as CSS Alabama on 24 August 1862. Under Captain Raphael Semmes, Alabama spent the next two months capturing and burning ships in the North Atlantic and intercepting American grain ships bound for Europe. Continuing its path of destruction through the West Indies, Alabama sank USS Hatteras near Galveston, Texas and captured its crew. After visiting Cape Town, South Africa Alabama sailed for the East Indies where it spent the next six months cruising for enemy shipping. While there, the formidable commerce raider destroyed seven more ships before redoubling the Cape of Good Hope and returning to Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003eA great item for Civil War buffs! This is an outstanding FULLY ASSEMBLED wood model of the C\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eS\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eS\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eAlabama, the Confederate States ship that menaced Union merchant and naval vessels\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eMaster craftsmen using historical photographs, drawings or original plans meticulously handcraft these highly detailed wood models from scratch\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eThey are built to scale with high-grade wood such as: western red cedar, rosewood, and mahogany\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eThey are 100% hand built individually using plank-on-frame construction method and are similar to the building of actual ships\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eEach model requires hundreds of hours to finish and must go through a demanding quality control process before leaving the workshop\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eThis beautiful C\u003c\/li\u003e","brand":"Old Modern Handicrafts Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47978049241276,"sku":"OMHI-T292","price":919.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/store.virventures.com\/products\/css-alabama-w-o-sail","provider":"Virventures","version":"1.0","type":"link"}