From Wide Open Space-- Famous Blockade Runners.
Earlier this summer, the state of North Carolina opened the Condor Dive Site.
The blockade-runner Condor was 270 feet long, with a 24-foot beam and crew of fifty.
It was chased on its maiden voyage by blockaders but arrived under the guns of Fort Fisher safely on 1 October 1864 at Swash Channel Bar at the New Inlet entrance to the Cape Fear River and Wilmington, its destination.
However, it ran aground, possibly while avoiding the wreck of the blockade-runner Night Hawk.
--Old B-Runner
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