Blockade Runner IVANHOE

Doing a little 'googling' can across some info that Ivanhoe had a 'sister' Red Gauntlet that was built by the same company - Scott & Co., Greenock, in the same yard - Cartsdyke East, of the same type - Iron Paddle Steamer, was the same tonnage - 266 grt / 173 nrt, had a yard number one more than Ivanhoe - 107 vs 108, built for the same owner - William Boyle, London, completed the same month - 05/05/1864 vs 23/05/1864, and interestingly enough, was trapped in Mobile the same time frame -Vessel history / Blockade runner /trapped at Mobile AL by Union blockade. /12/4/1865 evacuated via River Tombigbee to Gainsville /6/1865 captured at Gainsville

No drawing or picture of her seems to exist either so the drawing @AndyHall posted might be as close as we can get...

Please see...

http://clydeships.co.uk/view.php?year_built=&builder=&ref=20020&vessel=IVANHOE

http://clydeships.co.uk/view.php?year_built=&builder=&ref=20021&vessel=RED+GAUNTLET
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Cheers,
USS ALASKA
 
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wreck in Aug 2018
Image courtesy of : Dreas Aj Andreasen

http://clydeships.co.uk/view.php?year_built=&builder=&ref=20020&vessel=IVANHOE#v

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wreck in Aug 2018
Image courtesy of : Dreas Aj Andreasen

http://clydeships.co.uk/view.php?year_built=&builder=&ref=20020&vessel=IVANHOE#v

Looking at the top pic, I wounder if Dreas Aj Andreasen is standing on the beach using an RPV to take the photo... :smile:

Cheers,
USS ALASKA
 
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Based on the aerial images of the wreck, Ivanhoe probably looked a lot like another purpose-built Clydebanker, Will o' the Wisp.

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I didn't see a detailed description of Ivanhoe's machinery, but it was likely a pair of oscillating engines similar to these.
 
A Confederate perspective of the Ivanhoe...

AFLOAT---AFIELD---AFLOAT

George S. Waterman

...On the night of June 30, 1864 (11 o'clock), she attempted to run into Mobile Bay through the Swash Channel, but was discovered. As soon as the easternmost boat made the signal to the fleet, "Vessel running in!" the Federal light-draft dispatch boat Glasgow, lying near the Swash, ran for the beach and soon discovered her and fired five shots. Thereupon the fort opened fire on this vessel, bringing her to; but the mischief was already done, the Ivanhoe being by this time so rapidly intercepted at right angles by the Federal dispatch boat that she had to be run ashore between the fort and the new redoubt (2,700 yards from the fort) known as Battery Bragg. The Gaines's howitzer launch, twelve-oared, commanded by Lieut. John A. Payne, and first cutter, ten-oared, under Midshipman Waterman, were immediately lowered, ready for the fray and bent on the rescue of the endangered vessel. The launch and cutter were manned by thirty-one sailors with muskets, revolvers, hand grenades, and cutlasses. We learned on boarding that her captain commanded twenty-eight officers and crew, mostly Englishmen. We transferred from the beach to the vessel a company of sharpshooters, under Captains Johnston and Fisher, First Tennessee Regiment, sent from the fort for her protection against boarding parties. The launch's and first cutter's crews took their station at the boat's falls. Every boat was lifted from its cradle, swung out on the davits, and lowered to the water's edge. We got two kedge anchors out, each with a long scope of cable, in order to get her off the beach; but all our efforts at the windlass, with the steamer "backing" with all her might, were unavailing, as the tide had turned ebb, and she was going at least fourteen knots per hour when she went ashore. Lieutenant Payne now advised that her almost priceless cargo of blankets, shoes, medicines, drugs, and provisions be lightered ashore in her small boats. Before daylight several gunboats drew nigh and shelled her, which forced many of the sailors and soldiers to crowd the small boats to their full carrying capacity, while those who found no room in the boats had to leap overboard and wade ashore, the water fortunately reaching only to their shoulders. But they returned when the gunboats withdrew...

Confederate Veteran, Vol. IX, No. 12 Nashville, Tenn., December, 1902.

For the full article please see - http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ga/topic/news/CV/cvmiscpg12.htm
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Cheers,
USS ALASKA
 
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"Swash channel" is a common term on the Gulf coast for a deeper channel that runs near and parallel to the shoreline, that prevents larger vessels offshore from getting close. Many bay entrances have them. It was a standard, if somewhat risky, route favored by runners.
 
Best thread for this -
Mobile’s many shipwrecks help tell the area’s long history
Apr 13, 2019 4:09 PM EDT
During last year’s search in Alabama’s Mobile River for the Clotilda -- the last known slave ship to arrive in the U.S. -- archaeologists also gathered data on all kinds of other artifacts that shed light on the area's rich history. NewsHour Weekend's Megan Thompson reports.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/mobiles-many-shipwrecks-help-tell-the-areas-long-history
 
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