Crowninshield, George, Jr., privateersman, brings home the bodies of Captain Lawrence and Lieutenant Ludlow, ii. 225. _Croyable_, French gun-ship, captured off the Delaware, and renamed the _Retaliation_, i. 316, 400. Cruisers, Confederate, tales of the, iv. 407–451. _Cuba_, Federal merchant-ship, captured by Confederate cruiser _Sumter_, iv. 415. _Cumberland_, Federal sailing sloop-of-war, opens fire on the ironclad _Merrimac_, iv. 200; is rammed by the _Merrimac_, 201; in a sinking condition, 202; continues firing as she goes down, 203. Cumberland Head, Plattsburg Bay, Macdonough’s squadron at, iii. 149. Dabney, John B., American consul at Fayal, iii. 187; his report on the fight between the _Carnation_ and the _General Armstrong_, 195, 196, 198–201. Dacres, Captain James Richard, ii. 55; surrenders to Captain Hull, 94. Dahlgren, Rear-admiral John Adolph, his smooth-bore gun introduced, iv. 489. Dahlgren, Admiral John A. B., relieves Dupont of his command, iv. 489. Dale, Commodore Richard, master’s mate on _Lexington_, i. 68; escape of, from English prison, 123; joins Paul Jones’s fleet, 230; resourceful conduct of, 256, 260–262; wounded, 266; gallant conduct on the _Trumbull_, 295–297; placed in command of squadron in the Mediterranean, 334. Dartmoor Prison, Rev. Joseph Bates imprisoned in, iii. 294. _Dartmouth_, merchant-ship, tea thrown from, in Boston Harbor, i. 13. _Dash_, privateer of Baltimore, captures schooner _Whiting_ in Chesapeake Bay, ii. 241. _Dauphin_, American ship, captured by Algerian pirates, i. 309. Dauphin Island, Mobile, iv. 379; Federal troops landed on, 385. “Davids,” torpedo boats, first used at Charleston, iv. 497; derivation of name, 498. Davis, Captain Charles, relieves Commodore Foote, iv. 289; his inactivity, 293. Davis, Captain Charles H., replaces the buoys at Port Royal, iv. 171. Davis, Jefferson, proclamation inviting applications for letters of marque, iv. 85. Davis, Gunner’s Mate John, heroism of, iv. 110; promoted and honored, 111. Davyson, Captain Thomas, surrenders to the _Providence_, i. 282, 283. Dead Sea, exploration of the, iii. 464. _Deane_, American frigate, with the _Boston_, captures six prizes, i. 284, 287. Deane, Silas, member of first Marine Committee, i. 36; American commissioner to France with Franklin, i. 117. De Camp, Commander John, iv. 314. _Decatur_, American privateer, throws her guns overboard, ii. 75. Decatur, Lieutenant James, in the attack on the city of Tripoli, i. 361; killed by the Tripolitans, 362.