Continued from October 22.
The Marion sank after drifting onto a torpedo it had previously placed, and the bottom of her hull was blown out.
The Marion sank in just thirty seconds on the night of April 6, 1863, off Charleston in 30 feet of water at the mouth of the Ashley River neat the mouth of Wappoo Creek.
Captain John Floyer was killed, and the ship's machinery destroyed.
--Old B-Runner
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