Monday, October 6, 2014

150 Years Ago: Destruction of Another Blockade-Runner at Charleston

OCTOBER 6TH, 1864:  The USS Wamsutta reported the blockade-runner Constance hard aground and sunk near Long Island in Charleston Harbor while trying to enter the port.

Acting Master Charles W. Lee reported:  "...as she is completely submerged in about 3 fathoms of water I could ascertain nothing about her except that she is a Clyde-built vessel of the class of the Mary Bowers, and was evidently bound in."

--Old B-R'er

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