From the Cape Fear Civil War Shipwrecks District, NRHP, Site."0001 CBB. Beauregard."
The blockade-runner Beauregard also was known by the names General Beauregard and originally was the blockade-runner Havelock.
It was built in Glasgow, Scotland in 1858 and saw use as a coastal ferry boat until it was converted into a blockade-runner in early 1863.
An iron sidewheel steamer, it was 223-feet long with a 26 1/2-foot beam and a draft was 7'6".
The Beauregard was running into New Inlet on its 17th trip when it was boxed off by the blockaders and deliberately run ashore and destroyed. There are no reports of salvage.
--Old B-R'er
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