I would strongly advise those researchers who rely on the data being placed in articles, on the Internet, and elsewhere by Maurice Rigby to check other more reliable sources, as there are numerous errors shown in his information, and more coming to light as I obtain primary documentation, and other information from official sources.
I have previously pointed a couple of errors relating to George Harwood of the CSS ALABAMA, and now, after checking the Texas State Cemetery web site (after Rigby boasted of providing information to that page), I find that he has made at least three errors, one of major concern, relating to Charles Godwin, another sailor on the CSS ALABAMA. [See the link below.]
Charles Godwin was NEVER a "Captain" in the Confederate States Navy. He only held the enlisted sailor's rating of Captain of the Afterguard. The CONFEDERATE STATES NAVY REGISTER for 1863 shows that a Captain, on sea duty, received an annual salary of $4200, while a Captain of the Afterguard received $24 a month (or $288 annually), a vast difference. Raphael Semmes was a Captain, in command of the CSS ALABAMA, and if Godwin was also Captain on the vessel, then they should have shared joint command, and Kell and the other officers would have been his subordinates, which was certainly not the case.
Another error provided to the TSC by this "expert" seems to indicate that in her 22 month cruise on the oceans and seas, the CSS ALABAMA passed through this period without the loss of a single life. Any student of the subject (such as I am) knows that there was an accidental death on the cruiser (Simeon Cummings), and then there were the deaths in battle and by drowning, off Cherbourg, in 1864.
And if being stuck aboard the cruiser, with only a small number of stopovers in some ports, and being allowed liberty on occasion, not having entered a Confederate port, or cruising the Arctic or Antartic seas, nor calling in to ports in Australia, Canada, Japan, the Sandwich Islands or numerous other ports is considered as having "travelled the world," then Godwin was obviously one of the most inexperienced of world travellers!
Numerous other errors have been found, and some pointed out, in articles on Clarence Randolph Yonge, William Param Brooks, and others of the CSS ALABAMA.
These are errors that have been located through well documented sources. Let the researcher beware!!