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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 ...
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
On her maiden voyage from Scotland, where she was built, she encountered Union Navy ships engaged in a blockade of Charleston, South Carolina, and was heavily damaged before being scuttled by her captain. The wreck was discovered in 1965 and lies in the shallow waters of Charleston's harbor.
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 ...
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On 6 July she sighted her first large blockade runner, the schooner Ann accompanied by a small sloop; and a 3-day chase up Peace Creek ensued. On the 7th, Rosalie, frequently grounding in shallow waters, was joined by two cutters from USS Restless. On the 8th, the American seamen took their cotton-laden quarry.