From the September 13, 1864: IMPORTANT NAVAL NEWS.; The Prize steamer Georgia at Beaufort, N.C.. Another Pirate Ready to Leave Wilmington. A Fleet at Halifax.
I wrote about its capture in yesterday's post.
"The prize steamer Elsie, (British flag) in charge of Richard Wilkinson, Prize master, from Beaufort, N.C., on the 9th inst., arrived yesterday. She is bound to Boston, and after obtaining a Hell Gate pilot, proceeded.
"She was captured by the gunboats Quaker City and Keystone State on the 5th inst., in lat. 33 degrees 10' lon. 77 degrees 02' from Wilmington N.C. for Nassau, with cargo of 320 bales of cotton."
This gives a good description of what happened to blockade-runners after they were captured. The Elsie was captured on Sept. 5th, sent to Beaufort, leaving there on the 9th under a prize master and crew. Arrived in New York City on the 12th and was eventually going to Boston for prize court.
I'm not sure whether or not the Elsie was taken into Union service or sold to a private party.
--Old B-Runner
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