Blockade Runner Lelia-- Part 1: Built Specifically to Run the Blockade

From the August 29, 2019, London Daily Mail  "Wreck of the 19th century ship in Liverpool Bay built secretly to help slave -owning Confederate  forces in the US Civil War is granted special protection" by Jack Newman.

I am not sure why the English press made such a big deal about the Confederacy having slaves in their articles about the ship.

**  Was a purposefully-built ship to run the Union blockade.

**  Sank in a ferocious storm on its maiden voyage, January 14, 1865 with loss of 47 on board.  Now at bottom of Liverpool Bay.

**  Another seven lives lost when Liverpool No. 1 Lifeboat  sank while trying to  pick up Lelia survivors.

**  Built at Millers Shipyard in Toxteth, one of a small number of ships built in England in complicity with the Confederacy.  (Again, complicity as if that was a bad thing?)

**  Wreck discovered and identified in the 1990s when a bell marked "Lelia 1864" found.

**  Partially buried remains are 50 feet deep , 10 miles north west of Hilbre Point on the Wirral.

--Old B-Runner