desc=American Civil War, CSS Alabama's Gulf of Mexico Expeditionary Raid: The 293-ton brig, on a voyage in ballast from Cienfuegos, Cuba, to Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, was captured and burned in the Caribbean Sea south of Hispaniola about 5 nautical miles south of Alto Velo Island (coord) by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( ).