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The Daily Dispatch: October 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], The ship Thomas Watson. (search)
The ship Thomas Watson. --This ship, says the Charleston Courier, which we announced yesterday ashore near Folly Island, was burned on Tuesday afternoon by the Federal fleet now off this bar. Captain Allen, his officers, crew, and three passengers, reached here in boats yesterday evening. They gave us the following information: The Thomas Watson sailed from Liverpool on the 26th August, and had moderate weather all the passage. Her cargo consisted of 3,200 sacks of salt consigned to order, two printing presses and lithographic stone for Evans & Cogswell, and several bales of merchandize for Kerrison & Leiding. On Monday last at 10 o'clock A. M., got out of the Gulf Stream, and at 8 o'clock P. M., the same evening stood in for the Bar. At 5 o'clock, A. M., Tuesday, supposing the ship to be to the northward of this port, and while steering southwest by west, got ashore on the north breaker of Stono Inlet. After daylight discovered seven blockading vessels five near by and