The first ''Alabama'' was a 74-gun Ship Of The Line , started in 1818 , though never completed as such. She was eventually launched in 1864 as the storeship '' New Hampshire ''.
The first ship completed as ''Alabama'' was a fifty six ton Revenue Cutter built at New York in 1819 . She captured more than a dozen slavers and pirates, and sold off in 1833 .
The third ''Alabama'' was a sidewheel steamer merchant vessel that was commissioned in 1861 during the American Civil War . She served as a troop and cargo transport.
