DECEMBER 30TH, 1861: Flag Officer Foote wrote Assistant Secretary of Navy Fox of the pay scale he was using: "In the case of Masters and Pilots, I have been obliged, in order to secure the services of efficient Men, to pay 1st Masters $150. per month, 2nd Masters $125. 3rd Masters $100. and 4th Masters $80. per month, while Pilots are paid $175. per month.
"These prices are much less than the incumbents received in ordinary times, while they have been provided with table furniture and stores, bedding &c, which I have not allowed them."
It Costs Money To Fight a War. --Old B-Runner
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Friday, December 30, 2016
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Talking About That Recruiting Poster-- Part 2
Continued from Sepember 26th.
What was the Navy offering? So far, it was safer, food and shelter guaranteed, and less time to be served. Then, the recruiting poster went on to list what the sailor could earn. Ordinary Seamen pay was comparable to the Army at $14 a month, but an experienced seaman could earn $4 more and landsmen (no sea experience) $2 less. And, as a bonus, sailors gor an extra $1.50 a month for Grog!!! I imagine if you didn't partake, you could sock that money away.
And now for the best thing, there was PRIZE MONEY to be had. The poster mentioned $50,000,000 in prize money given out to warships capturing blockade-runners so far in the war.
Sign Me Up. --Old B-Runner
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Naval Happenings Dec. 27th-31st, 1861: More Money and Goodbye Biloxi
DECEMBER 30TH--
Flag Officer Foote wrote Secretary of Union Navy Welles what he was paying some of his men: "In the case of Masters and Pilots, I have been obliged, in order to secure the services of efficient Men, to pay 1st Masters $150. per month, 2nd Masters $125. 3rd Masters $100. and 4th Masters $80. per month, while Pilots are paid $175. per month. He went on to say that this was less than they would get during peace time. I'm figuring they weren't Navy men, but hired for their knowledge of the rivers. Pilots would be especially important in the narrow and shallow rivers.
DECEMBER 31ST--
Biloxi, Mississippi, surrendered to a landing party of sailors and Marines covered by the USS Water Witch, New London and Henry Lewis. A small Confederate battery was destroyed, two guns and schooner Captain Spedden captured.
** Two boats under Acting Masters A. Allen and H.L. Sturges from the USS Mount Vernon, destroyed the Confederate lightship off Wilmington which had been fitted out as a gun boat.
DECEMBER 31 TO JANUARY 2ND--
Naval squadron including USS Ottawa, Pembina and Seneca and four armed boats carry howitzers joined an amphibious attack on Confederate positions at Port Royal ferry and Coosaw River. Disrupted Confederate attempts to isolate Union forces on Port Royal Island.
Could Have Used the Lightship. --Old B-Runner
Flag Officer Foote wrote Secretary of Union Navy Welles what he was paying some of his men: "In the case of Masters and Pilots, I have been obliged, in order to secure the services of efficient Men, to pay 1st Masters $150. per month, 2nd Masters $125. 3rd Masters $100. and 4th Masters $80. per month, while Pilots are paid $175. per month. He went on to say that this was less than they would get during peace time. I'm figuring they weren't Navy men, but hired for their knowledge of the rivers. Pilots would be especially important in the narrow and shallow rivers.
DECEMBER 31ST--
Biloxi, Mississippi, surrendered to a landing party of sailors and Marines covered by the USS Water Witch, New London and Henry Lewis. A small Confederate battery was destroyed, two guns and schooner Captain Spedden captured.
** Two boats under Acting Masters A. Allen and H.L. Sturges from the USS Mount Vernon, destroyed the Confederate lightship off Wilmington which had been fitted out as a gun boat.
DECEMBER 31 TO JANUARY 2ND--
Naval squadron including USS Ottawa, Pembina and Seneca and four armed boats carry howitzers joined an amphibious attack on Confederate positions at Port Royal ferry and Coosaw River. Disrupted Confederate attempts to isolate Union forces on Port Royal Island.
Could Have Used the Lightship. --Old B-Runner
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