More famous than the ship herself was one of her passengers,famous Confederate spy and supporter Rose O'Neal Greenhow, who died in the surf when her small boat overturned while making her escape from the vessel.
Tradition maintains that she was weighed down with vital dispatches to Confederate President Jefferson Davis and $2,000 in gold.
There is a diorama of her death from the old Blockade Runner Museum at the Carolina Beach Town Hall on US-421. She was buried in Wilmington's Oakdale Cemetery.
--Old B-R'er
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