Showing posts with label blockade-runner Elsie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blockade-runner Elsie. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
N.C. Civil War Timeline for September 1864-- Part 1: Captures of Two Steamers and a U.S. Congressman
Taken from the North Carolina Civil War Sesquicentennial site.
SEPTEMBER 4-- Capture of steamer Elsie. Hit the Elsie label to find out more about this blockade runner. I have quite a few entries about it.)
SEPTEMBER 8-- The only capture of a United States Congressman during the Civil War at Coinjack in Currituck County.
George Washington Julian was taken prisoner when Captain J.N. Maffitt ordered pilot J.B. Hopkins to take a detail of twenty Confederate sailors to the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal and capture the small mail boat Fawn. Julian was subsequently released in Elizabeth City.
SEPTEMBER 10-- Capture of steamer A.D. Vance.
--Old B-Runner
Saturday, September 20, 2014
Blockade-Runner Elsie
I have written about the capture of this ship several times already month. Some more information from the Clyde Blockade-Runners Camp 2168, Sons of Confederate Veterans, England.
The Elsie was built by John Scott & Sons of Greenock, Scotland.
Other blockade-runners built by them:
Constance
Flora II
Ivanhoe
Kenilworth
Marmion
Redgauntlet
Talisma
The Elsie is considered as one of the Clyde blockade-runners.
--Old B-Runner
The Elsie was built by John Scott & Sons of Greenock, Scotland.
Other blockade-runners built by them:
Constance
Flora II
Ivanhoe
Kenilworth
Marmion
Redgauntlet
Talisma
The Elsie is considered as one of the Clyde blockade-runners.
--Old B-Runner
Friday, September 12, 2014
The New York Times Opinion of the Blockade-Running Business: Some Success But Many Failures-- Part 1
From the September 13, 1864, New York Times "The Blockade-Running Business."
"The satisfaction with which we read that two noted blockade-runners, the Elsie and the Lord Clyde (Advance or A.D. Vance), have been captured within the past week, is sadly marred by the news that the Tallahassee is to leave Wilmington on Tuesday (to-night,) that another blockade-runner, the Edith, converted into a privateer (the CSS Chickamauga) is almost ready to follow the Tallahassee on the same errand, and that a dozen or more blockade-runners are in Halifax harbor, some of them bound for British ports with valuable cargoes of cotton."
The North Still Smarting from the Tallahassee's Cruise. --Old B-R'er
"The satisfaction with which we read that two noted blockade-runners, the Elsie and the Lord Clyde (Advance or A.D. Vance), have been captured within the past week, is sadly marred by the news that the Tallahassee is to leave Wilmington on Tuesday (to-night,) that another blockade-runner, the Edith, converted into a privateer (the CSS Chickamauga) is almost ready to follow the Tallahassee on the same errand, and that a dozen or more blockade-runners are in Halifax harbor, some of them bound for British ports with valuable cargoes of cotton."
The North Still Smarting from the Tallahassee's Cruise. --Old B-R'er
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Capture of Famed Blockade-Runner A.D. Vance
SEPTEMBER 10TH, 1864: The USS Santiago de Cuba, Captain Glisson, seized the blockade-running steamer A.D. Vance at sea northeast of Wilmington with cargo of cotton.
The Advance (as it was also called) was one of the most successful blockade-runners and was mentioned in the New York papers along with the capture of the Elsie, which had a much more brief career.
--Old B-R'er
The Advance (as it was also called) was one of the most successful blockade-runners and was mentioned in the New York papers along with the capture of the Elsie, which had a much more brief career.
--Old B-R'er
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
The New York Times Reports Blockade-Running-- Part 1: September 1864
From the September 13, 1864, New York Times.
Along with information about the capture of the blockade-runner Elsie, the paper also had these tidbits:
*** The prize steamer Georgia arrived at Beaufort, N.C., on the 9th, and would proceed to Boston.
*** It was reported at Beaufort that the Confederate steamer Edith was about to leave Wilmington, heavily armed.
From Halifax, N.S., Monday, Sept. 12.
*** The blockade-runners Old Dominion arrived here on Saturday night and the City of Petersburgh on Sunday morning. They have about eighteen hundred bales of cotton on board, destined for England, said to be payment of the interest for the rebel loan. They left Wilmington last Monday night.
The Georgia was on its way to prize court. It was feared that the Confederates would send another raider, the Edith, out to plunder the coast of the U.S. as the Tallahassee had recently done. Evidently, the Confederate government could get loans from England (govt. or private?) as long as they paid interest in cotton.
Lots of Activity. --Old B-R'er
Along with information about the capture of the blockade-runner Elsie, the paper also had these tidbits:
*** The prize steamer Georgia arrived at Beaufort, N.C., on the 9th, and would proceed to Boston.
*** It was reported at Beaufort that the Confederate steamer Edith was about to leave Wilmington, heavily armed.
From Halifax, N.S., Monday, Sept. 12.
*** The blockade-runners Old Dominion arrived here on Saturday night and the City of Petersburgh on Sunday morning. They have about eighteen hundred bales of cotton on board, destined for England, said to be payment of the interest for the rebel loan. They left Wilmington last Monday night.
The Georgia was on its way to prize court. It was feared that the Confederates would send another raider, the Edith, out to plunder the coast of the U.S. as the Tallahassee had recently done. Evidently, the Confederate government could get loans from England (govt. or private?) as long as they paid interest in cotton.
Lots of Activity. --Old B-R'er
Rear Admiral Lee Reports Capture of the Blockade-Runner Elsie
I wrote about the capture of this ship on Sept. 5th and 6th.
From the September 13, 1864, New York Times.
"Rear-Admiral LEE, in a dispatch dated Beaufort, Sept. 7, says: 'The Elsie ran out of Wilmington on the 4th inst., and was captured the next day by the Keystone State [???] Quaker City. The Elsie was seen and fired upon when she ran out by the Niphon and Britannia, and was chased off by the Santiago de Cuba until lost in the darkness.
'At 10:30 the next day she was seen and captured, without papers or flag. A shell from the Quaker City exploded in the foothold of the Elsie, and destroyed about 150 bales of cotton. Part of the cargo was thrown overboard in the chase and there are now about 250 bales on board.
'The prize will be sent to Boston. The Elsie is a new steamer of light draft and fair speed, of the Rothesay Castle class, and this is her first trip.
'She will be made a useful vessel on blockade duty. The blockade is close and vigilant, but it is impossible to prevent its violation on dark nights by steamers built for the purpose.'"
What better ship to catch a blockade-runner than another blockade-runner.
I was unable to find out if the Elsie did become a Union ship.
--Old B-Runner
From the September 13, 1864, New York Times.
"Rear-Admiral LEE, in a dispatch dated Beaufort, Sept. 7, says: 'The Elsie ran out of Wilmington on the 4th inst., and was captured the next day by the Keystone State [???] Quaker City. The Elsie was seen and fired upon when she ran out by the Niphon and Britannia, and was chased off by the Santiago de Cuba until lost in the darkness.
'At 10:30 the next day she was seen and captured, without papers or flag. A shell from the Quaker City exploded in the foothold of the Elsie, and destroyed about 150 bales of cotton. Part of the cargo was thrown overboard in the chase and there are now about 250 bales on board.
'The prize will be sent to Boston. The Elsie is a new steamer of light draft and fair speed, of the Rothesay Castle class, and this is her first trip.
'She will be made a useful vessel on blockade duty. The blockade is close and vigilant, but it is impossible to prevent its violation on dark nights by steamers built for the purpose.'"
What better ship to catch a blockade-runner than another blockade-runner.
I was unable to find out if the Elsie did become a Union ship.
--Old B-Runner
Saturday, September 6, 2014
New York Times Announces Arrival of Captured Blockade-Runner Elsie in New York
From the September 13, 1864: IMPORTANT NAVAL NEWS.; The Prize steamer Georgia at Beaufort, N.C.. Another Pirate Ready to Leave Wilmington. A Fleet at Halifax.
I wrote about its capture in yesterday's post.
"The prize steamer Elsie, (British flag) in charge of Richard Wilkinson, Prize master, from Beaufort, N.C., on the 9th inst., arrived yesterday. She is bound to Boston, and after obtaining a Hell Gate pilot, proceeded.
"She was captured by the gunboats Quaker City and Keystone State on the 5th inst., in lat. 33 degrees 10' lon. 77 degrees 02' from Wilmington N.C. for Nassau, with cargo of 320 bales of cotton."
This gives a good description of what happened to blockade-runners after they were captured. The Elsie was captured on Sept. 5th, sent to Beaufort, leaving there on the 9th under a prize master and crew. Arrived in New York City on the 12th and was eventually going to Boston for prize court.
I'm not sure whether or not the Elsie was taken into Union service or sold to a private party.
--Old B-Runner
I wrote about its capture in yesterday's post.
"The prize steamer Elsie, (British flag) in charge of Richard Wilkinson, Prize master, from Beaufort, N.C., on the 9th inst., arrived yesterday. She is bound to Boston, and after obtaining a Hell Gate pilot, proceeded.
"She was captured by the gunboats Quaker City and Keystone State on the 5th inst., in lat. 33 degrees 10' lon. 77 degrees 02' from Wilmington N.C. for Nassau, with cargo of 320 bales of cotton."
This gives a good description of what happened to blockade-runners after they were captured. The Elsie was captured on Sept. 5th, sent to Beaufort, leaving there on the 9th under a prize master and crew. Arrived in New York City on the 12th and was eventually going to Boston for prize court.
I'm not sure whether or not the Elsie was taken into Union service or sold to a private party.
--Old B-Runner
Friday, September 5, 2014
Second Time No Charm for the Blockade-Runner Elsie at Wilmington
SEPTEMBER 5TH, 1864: The USS Keystone State and USS Quaker City captured the British blockade-runner Elsie off Wilmington with a cargo of cotton. The Elsie had been chased the previous night by blockaders after standing out from Wilmington, but had escaped in the darkness.
This date, however, the two Union ships spotted her and opened fire. The Elsie came close to escaping, but a shell exploding in her forward hold forced her to surrender.
--Old B-Runner
This date, however, the two Union ships spotted her and opened fire. The Elsie came close to escaping, but a shell exploding in her forward hold forced her to surrender.
--Old B-Runner
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