CSS Alabama's South African expeditionary raid

CSS Alabama worked its way slowly back and forth in the vicinity of Cape Town in one of the least successful of its seven raids, capturing a few U.S. barks. While operating in this area, the United States Navy's put into Simon's Town in pursuit of Alabama, but had no luck in finding the evasive Confederate raider. Alabama rendezvoused a few times with its allied ship, . After this patrol station, Alabama sailed eastward into the Indian Ocean to continue its unhindered commercial raiding as far as Indonesia. ==Raid bounty==