October 16, 1863: USS Tennessee and the Blockade Runners

OCTOBER 16, 1863:  Commodore H.H. Bell reported that the USS Tennessee, Acting Lieutenant Wiggin, had seized blockade running British schooner Friendship off Rio Brazos, Texas, with a cargo of munitions from Havana, and caused the schooner Jane to be destroyed by her own crew to prevent her capture.

--Old B-Runner