Capture of Blockade-Runner Calypso-- Part 2

Two boats had already left with a number of people on board, including four females. The Florida sent men to board the ship and found that efforts had been made to scuttle it, but the leaks were plugged.

The crew had broken into the the ship's stores and pillaged. Clothing, bottles and bedding were strewn all over the ship. "Many were more or less intoxicated."

The ship "proved to be the Confederate steamer Calypso, four days out of Nassau, bound for Wilmington, N.C., by way of New Inlet. No ship's papers were discovered on board and but one flag (Confederate, or rebel) hidden away in a washboard.

The captain, without hesitation, acknowledged her to be a Confederate vessel and stated his cargo to consist of liquors, medicines, drugs and provisions, with probably some articles for the rebel Government."

More to Come. --Old B-Runner