rebelatsea
Captain
- Joined
- Mar 30, 2013
- Location
- Kent ,England.
Indian Chief was a receiving ship at Charleston, has anyone got any technical information on her. She is described as being "large, three masted".
Wow, there's even less on her than I was expecting to find-- which wasn't much!
Paging @AndyHall -- is this something that might be in the Lytle-Holdcamper List? I'm guessing if she's not in there, that's another point against her being a steamer. (Other items leading to that conclusion are that steamers were too useful to have sitting around as a receiving ship, and in one entry on ORN, an officer is directed to transfer most of the Huntress's company to the Indian Chief-- but not the firemen, and coal heavers. Slender reeds, but they do fit the pattern.)
The ORN's are no help on this one either. This is what prompted my question. I could only think of Indian chief as a receiving ship.Absent other information, I'm assuming the name was unchanged when she was taken into Confederate service. (If it were something like "States Rights", it would be another story...)
Thanks Mark.Very slim info, but https://wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?220723 notes her as a three-masted schooner.