Battle of Cherbourg
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The <entity_0>, or sometimes the Battle off Cherbourg or the Sinking of CSS Alabama, was a single-ship action fought during the <entity_1> between a <entity_2> Navy warship, USS Kearsarge, and a Confederate States Navy warship, CSS Alabama, on <entity_3>, off Cherbourg, <entity_4>. She was escorted by the <entity_4> Navy ironclad Couronne, whose mission was to ensure that the ensuing <entity_5> occurred outside the <entity_4> harbor. Men aboard USS Kearsarge spotted the incoming Confederate raider, so they turned their ship around to take the impending <entity_5> out of <entity_4> territorial waters. The <entity_5> continued in this manner for several minutes; in the meantime, on the <entity_4> coast, hundreds watched the <entity_5>. Although it now lies in <entity_4> territorial waters, the U.S. government claimed possession of it on the grounds that Alabama had struck to Kearsarge and that the location had not been within <entity_4> territorial waters at the time of the <entity_5>. On 3 October 1989, <entity_4> and the <entity_2> signed an agreement recognising the wreck as a common historic heritage for both nations and established a joint scientific team for its exploration.
['battle', 'naval battle']