The 290
By: Scott O'Dell.
Publisher: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Naperville, Ill
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781402213267
Subjects: Semmes, Raphael, -- 1809-1877 -- Fiction; Alabama (Ship) -- Juvenile fiction; Alabama (Ship) -- Fiction; Seafaring life -- Fiction; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations -- Juvenile fiction; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.; Juvenile fiction.
Other titles: The two ninety; The two hundred ninety
Description: A shipyard apprentice finds high adventure aboard the S.S. Alabama, originally called simply the 290, a Confederate ship which sails the Atlantic destroying Union vessels. Includes facts about the ship's history and Captain Raphael Semmes.