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The blockade runner Mary Bowers, Captain Jesse DeHorsey (or Horsey), bound from Bermuda to Charleston, South Carolina with an assorted cargo, struck the submerged wreck of the SS Georgiana in fourteen feet of water a mile off of Long Island (the present day Isle of Palms, South Carolina) on August 31, 1864.
The last blockade runner to make its way into Wilmington's port was the SS Wild Rover, on January 5, 1865. The fort was attacked a second time on January 13, and after a two-day siege it was captured on January 15 by the Union Army and Navy. [69] Several blockade runners previously docked upriver managed to escape in the midst of the battle.
Owned by the Charleston Importing and Exporting Company, Syren made her first run on 5 November 1863, importing supplies for the Confederacy from Nassau to Wilmington. Syren completed a record 33 runs through the Union blockade, the most of any blockade runner, before invading Union forces captured her while Syren was berthed at Charleston ...
American Civil War, Union blockade: The sidewheel paddle steamer, a blockade runner carrying a cargo of cotton, ran aground off Sullivan's Island while trying to leave Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. [31] [71] [72] [73] Her wreck was captured by the monitor USS Catskill ( United States Navy) on 18 February. [73] Nereid United Kingdom
The Floating Battery of Charleston Harbor. CS Navy wooden floating batteries were towed into firing positions, and as in the case at Charleston Harbor, used for makeshift defense. CSS Danube, floating battery [34] CSS Memphis, floating battery [35] CSS New Orleans, floating battery, scuttled: April 7, 1862 [36] Floating Battery of Charleston Harbor
Her cargo was found to be rifles, swords, and other contraband. The next day, 26 April 1862, while still in convoy with Ella Warley, she captured another blockade runner, the schooner Mersey of Charleston. On 30 April, he took yet another schooner, Maria of Charleston. Having already detached 59 men for prize crews, Ridgely decided he could ...
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A. S. Henckle and George Alfred Trenholme of Charleston, South Carolina. While her new owner, Charles K. Prioleau, hoped to realize a profit from operating the steamer, he evinced even more interest in proving the Federal blockade of the South ineffective and therefore non-binding in international law. By proving the Union Navy's efforts to ...