USS Beauregard-- Part 2: A Blockade Runner's Worst Friend

The privateer Beauregard was taken to Key West for adjudication and condemned for $2,147.47 with $1,854.92 for distribution among the Anderson's crew.

The U.S. Navy purchased the Beauregard for $1,810 on 24 Feb 1862 and replaced the 24-pdr rifle (which had been spiked by its Confederate crew when captured) with one 30-pdr. rifle and two 12-pdr. howitzers, commissioned 28 March 1862 and sent to the East Gulf Blockading Squadron.

On 2 April 1863, the USS Beauregard supported an attack on Tampa, Florida, and 28 July 1863 saw action at New Smyrna, Florida.

From July 1862 to May 12, 1864, the ship captured eleven blockade-runners, all but one as the only vessel entitled to share prize money. Those crew members made a good deal of extra money this way.

The USS Beauregard was sold at Key West June 28, 1865.

The Story of a Ship Serving Two Countries. Much More Successful as a Blockader. --Old B-R'er