USS Gem of the Sea Correspondence Book-- Part 4: Intentionally Sank a 'Worthless' Blockade Tunner

Continued from September 10, 2018.

January 1, 1863:    At anchor off the entrance to Indian River to Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, reporting the capture of  the blockade running sloop Ann bound for Nassau with four crew and a small cargo of salt and other provisions.

Baxter deemed her "old and leaky" and her cargo of insufficient value to be sent for  adjudication, so he destroyed her and much of her cargo., forwarded her papers to the commanding officer of the  East Gulf Blockading Squadron, and transferred her crew (four British subjects) to the gunboat USS Sagamore.

--Old B-Tunner