Blockade Captures

22 Oct 1864

North Carolina. USS Eolus, Acting Master William O Lundt, captured the Confederate blockade-running steamer Hope near Wilmington with a cargo of machinery.


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Capture of the blockade runner HOPE by the United States steamer AEOLUS off Wilmington, Oct. 22, 1864


Please see @dosplatanus thread https://civilwartalk.com/threads/confederate-blockade-runner-hope.217518/

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22 Oct 1864

South Carolina. The British blockade-running steamer Flora was chased by USS Wamsutta, USS Geranium, and USS Mingoe off Charleston. It ran ashore and was destroyed the next day by gunfire from monitors and the batteries on Morris Island.


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US Light House Tender Geranium under way, circa the 1890s, by N.L. Stebbins, Boston, MA. This steamer served as USS Geranium in 1863-1865. US Naval History and Heritage Command Photo # NH 96608. Courtesy of US Coast Guard Historian.


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Generic lithograph representing the Sassacus-class gunboat USS Mingoe. Wikipedia John Spivey


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24 Oct 1863

North Carolina. USS Calypso, Acting Master Frederick D Stuart, captured the blockade-running British schooner Herald off Frying Pan Shoals with a cargo of salt and soda.


USS Calypso I (Gunboat)(former Confederate vessel)
(Gunboat. tonnage 630 (gross register); length 175'2"; beam 26'6"; draft 12'0"; speed 12.0 knots; complement 70; armament 2 30-pounder rifles, 4 24-pounder rifles)

The first Calypso, an armed streamer, was captured on 11 June 1863 off Wilmington, N.C., by Florida; purchased from the prize court on 12 October 1863; and commissioned on 24 September 1863, Acting Master Frederick D. Stuart in command.


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24 Oct 1864

Florida. USS Nita, Acting Lieutenant Robert B Smith, captured an unmanned schooner off Clearwater Harbour after her crew had escaped ashore.


USS Nita (former Confederate vessel)
(SwStr: t. 210; l. 146-; b. 22-4-; dph. 7-; dr. 5-; cpl. 46; a. 1 12-pdr. how., 2 heavy 12-pdr. sb.)

Nita, a wooden sidewheel steamer built in 1856 at Mobile, Ala., was captured while carrying food and medicine from Havana toward Mobile by Union blockading schooner De Soto 17 August 1863. Taken to Key West, under a prize crew, Nita was condemned by a prize court; transferred to the Navy 10 September 1863; and commissioned 8 January 1864, Actg. Vol. Lt. Robert B. Smith in command.


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24 Oct 1864

Florida. USS Rosalie, Acting Ensign Henry W Wells, captured an unidentified blockade running sloop off Little Marco, with a cargo of salt and shoes.


USS Rosalie (former blockade runner)
(Sloop: tonnage 28; length 45-; beam 17-; depth of hold 5-; draft 3-6-; armament 1 12-pounder smooth bore)

The sloop Rosalie, commanded by Master W. R. Postell, was intercepted and seized on 16 March 1863 by USS Octorara while attempting to run cargo from Bermuda into the beseiged [sic; besieged] port of Charleston. Sent to Key West for adjudication [sic; adjudication], she was purchased by the Navy on 6 May 1863; fitted out as a tender; and commissioned in June 1863, Acting Ensign Charles P. Clark in command.


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25 Oct 1863

Texas. USS Kittatinny, Acting Master Isaac D Seyburn, captured the schooner Reserve off Pass Cavallo.

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1863 October 25th

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27 Oct 1861

Texas. USS Santee, Captain Henry Eagle, captured the brig Delta off Galveston.

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1861 October 27th

October 27 1861 Saturday East Kentucky Operations Go to October 28 1861 Atlantic Ocean. The CSS Sumter captured and burned the American schooner Trowbridge, after removing five months’ supply…
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Painting of USS Santee, date unknown by artist Rear Admiral J.W. Schmidt USN US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 85592-KN..


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27 Oct 1862

South Carolina. Boat crews from USS Flag, Lieutenant-Commander Charles C Carpenter, and USS Restless captured the British steamer Anglia at Bull's Bay.

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1862 October 27th

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Anglia (British steamship and blockade Runner, 1847-1865). Renamed Admiral DuPont in 1863 Anglia, a 473 gross ton iron side-wheel steamship, was built at West Ham, England, in 1847. She was active as a blockade runner in 1862, making a successful round-trip voyage between Nassau, Bahamas, and Charleston, South Carolina, in July-September. A second trip through the blockade ended with her capture in Bulls Bay, S.C., by boats from USS Flag and USS Restless, on 27 October 1862. After adjudication by the U.S. prize court Anglia was sold to new owners, who renamed her Admiral DuPont in January 1863 and employed her until 8 June 1865, when she was sunk in a collision.

Civilian Ships--Steamship Anglia (1847-1865)

This page features the only views we have related to the steamer Anglia, which was renamed Admiral DuPont in 1863
www.ibiblio.org

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Blockade Runner Anglia Line engraving published in The Soldier in Our Civil War, depicting Anglia anchored in port. She was captured at Bull's Bay, South Carolina, on 27 October 1862 by boats from USS Restless and USS Flag. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. NH 58711


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27 Oct 1863

Texas. USS Granite City, Acting Master C W Lamson, captured the schooner Anita off Pass Cavallo with a cargo of cotton.

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1863 October 27th

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USS Granite City (side-wheel steamer)(former blockade runner)
(SwStr: t 450; l. 160'; b. 23'; dph. 9'2"; a. 6 24-pdr. howitizers, 1 12-pdr. rifle)

Granite City was originally a Confederate blockade runner, and was captured in the Bahama Islands 22 March 1863 by U.S.S. Tioga. She was bought by the United States from the New York Prize Court for $55,000 and delivered to the Navy at New York 16 April 1863, Acting Master Charles W. Lamson in command.


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27 Oct 1861

Virginia. A boat expedition from USS Louisiana led by Lieutenant Alfred Hopkins surprised and burned three Confederate vessels at Chincoteague Inlet.

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1861 October 27th

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28 Oct 1862

Florida. USS Sagamore, Lieutenant-Commander George A Bigelow, captured the blockade-running British schooner Trier off Indian River Inlet


Depending upon WHICH Indian River Outlet...it is a 120 some mile long lagoon...

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28 Oct 1864

Maryland. USS Adolph Hugel, Acting Master Sylvanus Nickerson, seized the sloop James Landry for violation of the blockade regulations.


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28 Oct 1864

North Carolina. USS Calypso, Acting Master Stuart, and USS Eolus, Acting Master Lundt, captured the blockade-running British steamer Lady Sterling at sea off Wilmington with a cargo of cotton and tobacco.


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USS Eolus capturing the blockade runner Lady Sterling off Wilmington, North Carolina, 28 October 1864. Phototype by F. Gutekunst, Philadelphia, PA., published circa the later 1800s. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 2014.


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USS Hornet photographed by C.W. Yates, at Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1865. This ship was formerly the blockade runner Lady Sterling, captured off Wilmington in October 1864. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 5119, donation of Ralph Dudley, 1943.


USS Hornet V (Former blockade runner Lady Sterling)
(SwStr: t. 835,l. 242'; b. 26'6";dr. 13'3" ; a. 8g.)

The fifth Hornet was built as the Confederate blockade runner Lady Sterling at Blackwell, England, in 1864; taken prize and set afire off Wilmington, N.C., by Bolus and Calypso of the Atlantic Blockading Squadron 28 October 1864; sold by the New York Prize Court to the Navy; commissioned 24 April 1865, Acting Master Joseph Avant in command; and renamed Hornet 17 June.


The Many Faces of Lady Sterling
From Civil War blockade-runner to U.S. Navy prize vessel to presidential yacht to Cuban privateer, this English beauty had a career that might best be described as 'eclectic.'
Alan Fraser Houston
April 2016
Naval History
Volume 30, Number 2

When the British-owned and newly built side-wheel steamer Lady Sterling proceeded down the River Thames on 12 August 1864, her ultimate destination was the Confederate port of Wilmington, North Carolina. She was built for speed, and her owner anticipated huge profits by running cargoes past the well-armed Union vessels blockading that port. On the dark night of 28 October, after several attempts to pass the Confederacy's soft sands, she cleared Western Bar Inlet of the Cape Fear River. Encountering Union shellfire, she caught fire and was captured—her smuggling career thwarted at the outset. But much more lay in store for her, and no one would have anticipated that the Lady Sterling, a Union prize, would be modified for the "special accommodation" of none other than Abraham Lincoln. Even so, the 16th President would never set foot on her.

Full detailed article here - https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2016/april/many-faces-lady-sterling

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