Trivia 04-29-2020 Ships

[Trivia Master]

The incident involving the Star of the West is a well-known part of the Fort Sumter crisis. But there was another ship involved in a similar incident because her Master did not know about the events then underway in Charleston. Lost, he actually thought he was entering Savannah Harbor!
A. What was the name of the other ship fired on by rebel forces while trying to enter Charleston Harbor?
B. Who was the ship's Master?
C. When did the incident occur?

credit: @WJC

 

[hughes]

A. Rhoda B. Shannon
B. Joseph Martz
C. April 3, 1861

 

[stuart1861]

- Rhoda H. Shannon, a schooner out of Boston
- Captain Joseph Marts
- Wednesday, April 3, 1861

 

[kholland]

A Rhoda H Shannon
B Joseph Marts
C April 3d


















C

 

[captaindrew]

A. Rhoda H. Shannon B. Captain Joseph Marts C. April 3, 1861 http://civilwarmeanderings.blogspot.com/2011/04/150-years-ago-rhoda-h-shannon.html

 

[Eleanor Rose]

A. What was the name of the other ship fired on by rebel forces while trying to enter Charleston Harbor? Rhoda H. Shannon
B. Who was the ship's Master? Captain Joseph Marts
C. When did the incident occur? April 3, 1861
Source

 

[luinrina]

The ship is the Rhoda H. Shannon, a private schooner bound from Boston to Savannah to deliver ice. Her master, Captain Joseph Marts, had lost orientation in bad weather. He believed Morris Island to be Tybee Island. The incident occured on April 3, 1861.

Sources: https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...erica-was-born/2011/03/18/AFQyRuHD_story.html, http://civilwarmeanderings.blogspot.com/2011/04/150-years-ago-rhoda-h-shannon.html

 

[Pollaco]

The schooner RHODA H. SHANNON was captained by JOSEPH MARTS, It was fired upon on APRIL 3, 1861.

 

[sarladaise]

A. American schooner Rhoda H. Shannon
B. Joseph Marts
C. April 3, 1861

moultrie.battlefieldsinmotion.com/General-Timeline.html

 

[JOHN42768]

Schooner Rhoda H. Shannon
Captain Joseph Marts
April 3, 1861
source: http://civilwarmeanderings.blogspot.com/2011/04/150-years-ago-rhoda-h-shannon.html

 

[ErnieMac]

A. What was the name of the other ship fired on by rebel forces while trying to enter Charleston Harbor? Rhoda H. Shannon.
B. Who was the ship's Master? Joseph Marts.
C. When did the incident occur? April 3, 1861.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/when-fort-sumter-was-fired-on-in-1861-modern-america-was-born/2011/03/18/AFQyRuHD_story.html

150 Years Ago: The Rhoda H. Shannon

With rumors flying around Charleston that the Federal government was soon going to make an attempt to reinforce and resupply Fort Sumter, th...

civilwarmeanderings.blogspot.com

 

[Michigander]

1. The schooner R. H. Shannon
2. Captain Mounts
3. April 3, 1861
Source

 

[FarawayFriend]

1) The name of the vessel was R.H. Shannon
2) Her master was Captain Mounts
3) The incident occurred April 3rd, 1861

Source

 

[warbird43]

A. What was the name of the other ship fired on by rebel forces while trying to enter Charleston Harbor ? The schooner Rhoda H. Shannon, bound for Savannah, Georgia (100 miles to the south) with a cargo of ice.

B. Who was the ship's Master ? Joseph Marts

C. When did the incident occur ? April 3, 1861.

 

[hoosier]

A. The name of the ship was the Miss Directed.
B. Her master was Richard Riegels. His grandson Roy, who inherited his grandfather's sense of direction, picked up a fumble and ran toward his own goal in the 1929 Rose Bowl, thereby gaining everlasting notoriety as "Wrong Way Riegels."
C. The date - April 1 (what else?)

Edit - Gee, I almost got the date right.

hoosier

 

[Wallyfish]

R.H. Shannon
Captain Mounts
April., 3' 1864

Source

 

[Soldier Boy]

A. The Rhoda H. Shannon (schooner)
B. Joseph Marts
C. April 3, 1861

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...erica-was-born/2011/03/18/AFQyRuHD_story.html

War of the Rebellion: Serial 001 Page 0239 Chapter I. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION. | eHISTORY

ehistory.osu.edu

 

[Ole Miss]

What a poser! One of the best questions submitted. After diligent searches I am beaten.
Regards
David

 

[Peace Society]

It is difficult to determine a person's intelligence, but there is no question that Captain Joseph Marts, skipper of the Rhoda A. Shannon, a schooner out of Boston, was astonishingly ignorant. He would later admit he had heard something of trouble in Charleston, and that some sort of Confederacy had been established somewhere down South, but beyond that he was really not much of a reader and did not follow the news.

Allegiance p. 234 by David Detzer Harcourt 2001

He was just trying to deliver a cargo of ice to Savannah, did not know the area well, and had been confused by storms off Hatteras.
pp. 234-237 cover entertainingly this incident of April 3, 1861.



for once, I remembered where I read it : )

 

[General Casey]

Searched high and low and have no clue