The CSS Oconee Founders in Heavy Seas

AUGUST 18TH

The CSS Oconee foundered in heavy seas (same date as the Hebe being chased ashore during a gale in NC) near St. Catherine's Sound, Georgia after running the blockade out of Savannah the night before. She was carrying a cargo of cotton "on navy account."

All hands were saved, but two days a later, a boat with 4 officers and 11 men was captured by the USS Madgie.

The Union commander of the Madgie stated that "it was probably her [Oconee's] intention to obtain iron on her return trip, in order to ironclad the new rams being built in Savannah."

--Old B-Runner