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Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 37: operations of the East Gulf Squadron to October, 1863. (search)
troduction of all kinds of material by means of small vessels that could enter the shallow harbors, streams and inlets with which this State abounds. But notwithstanding the advantages these small craft possessed for eluding the blockaders, they could not carry on their trade with impunity. From the time that Bailey took command, up to the end of the year, more than 100 vessels were captured or destroyed by the squadron. From Cape Canaveral, all along the eastern shore of Florida to Cape Sable, are numerous passages and inlets where vessels could with safety land their cargoes of arms or provisions in a night and be out of sight of the blockaders when daylight came. Following the coast up to the northward were the Ten Thousand Islands, Charlotte Harbor, Tampa Bay, Crystal River. Cedar Keys, Suwanee River, Appalache Bay, St. George's Bay, Appalachicola, St. Andrew's Bay, and a thousand other places of refuge too numerous to mention. Arms and munitions of war of all kinds cou
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wrecks. (search)
York, wrecked on Blackwater Bank, the master mistaking the Blackwater for the Tuskar light; only twenty-four out of 419 persons saved......night of April 27-28, 1859 Steamship Indian, from Liverpool to Portland, strikes on Seal Ledge, about 65 miles east of Halifax, and breaks in two amidships; twenty-four lives lost......Nov. 21, 1859 American emigrant vessel Luna wrecked on rocks off Barfleur; about 100 lives lost......Feb. 19, 1860 New mail steamer Hungarian wrecked near Cape Sable, N. S.; all on board (205) lost......night of Feb. 19-20, 1860 Steamer Canadian strikes on ice-field in Strait of Belle Isle, Newfoundland, and founders in half an hour; thirty-five lives lost......June 4, 1861 British mail steamer Anglo-Saxon wrecked in a dense fog on reef off Cape Race, Newfoundland; about 237 out of 446 lives lost......April 27, 1863 Steamer Constitution wrecked on Cape Lookout shoals; forty lives lost......Dec. 25, 1865 Steamer Evening Star, from New York to N
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 3: (search)
were the bulwarks of France in America against English ambition. De Puysieux, the French minister for foreign affairs, like the English Secretary, Bedford, was earnestly desirous of avoiding war; but a fresh collision in America touched the sense of honor of the French nation, and made negotiation .hopeless. A French brigantine with a schooner, laden with provisions and warlike stores, and bound from Quebec to the river St. John's, was met by Rous in the British ship of war Albany off Cape Sable. He fired a gun to bring her to; she kept on her course: he fired another and a third; and the brigantine prepared for action. The English instantly poured into her a broadside and a volley of small arms; and after a short action compelled her to strike. The Albany had a midshipman and two mariners killed; the French lost five men. The brigantine was taken to Halifax, and condemned in the Admiralty Court. Cornwallis to Lords of Trade, 27 November, 1750. On the side of France, indigna
The Daily Dispatch: June 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], An unfortunate Ocean steamer company. (search)
An unfortunate Ocean steamer company. --The steamer Canadian, lost on the 4th instant, was the second boat of the same name lost by the line between the Canada and Liverpool. She was an iron steamer of 2,000 tons, with several bulkheads, and was builds at Greenwich last year. The first steamer Canadian was lost by striking upon the "Pillar" below Quebec, in June, 1857. The Indian went ashore on the eastern end of Nova Scotia, November 21, 1859, and of the 115 passengers, 84 were lost. The Hungarian, with 125 passengers and crew of 50, was wrecked on a rock near Cape Sable, February 19, 1860.--These four steamers belonged to the same line.
The Daily Dispatch: August 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], Five Dollars reward. (search)
reported that W. W. Corcoran has been arrested for treason by the Provost Marshal; he has been supposed to be a warm friend of the Confederate cause, and to have had caucuses at his house, where traitors would meet and compares notes and congratulate themselves upon the successes of their friends. He has now, it his arrest incorrect, been checked in his career. The Tortugas. The Tortugas is a bleak and barren sand key in the Gulf of Mexico, about one hundred miles Southwest from Cape Sable. It is cheerless and uncomfortable, decidedly one of the most uncomfortable points to which the Government is obliged to send its insubordinate. The Federal mutineers, banished to Tortugas, do not go as soldiers, but as unarmed laborers, and will be compelled to work upon fortifications, much as penitentiary convicts do in quarries and sand- banks. Another arrest. A New York paper, of Monday, says: Yesterday afternoon, Capt. Quinn, who is recruiting in Harlem for the Temma
The Daily Dispatch: February 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], European News. (search)
Slidell asked him for his papers, to show his authority for the course he was taking. The tipstaff replied that he had none, on which Mr Slidell declined to leave; but he at length yielded to the solicitations of Col. Dymock, the commandant of the fortress, who begged him to go, as he knew the man, and that no papers could be produced. The four prisoners were taken from Fort Warren in charge of the tipstaff and six marines, without any officer, and conveyed forty miles in a steam tug to Cape Sable, where they were transferred to Her Majesty's gunboat Rinaldo, Captain Hewitt, which was lying off to receive them. The Rinaldo bore up for Halifax for four days, and was then driven by the violence of the storm that was raging to Bermuda They all landed at Bermuda, and remained there one day. Admiral Milue ordered the Rinaldo to take them on to St. Thomas to catch the mail steamer for England, offering the Commissioners, however, if they preferred it, to send them on in Her Majesty's shi
The Daily Dispatch: August 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
August 17.--The rebel steamer Tallahassee on Thursday destroyed twenty-five vessels off Mattinicus Rock. She was manned mostly by Nova Scotia men. After sending the crews and passengers of the vessels destroyed into Friendship by a small craft, she steered in an easterly direction. Boston, August 17.--A dispatch from the American Consular Agent at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, to this city, states that six more vessels were destroyed by the pirate Tallahassee on Monday, six miles from Cape Sable. Thirty men of the crews were landed at Yarmouth in a destitute condition. The pirate was in sight on Monday morning. A raid into Illinois--five steamers captured and Bonded. Cairo, August 15. --About five hundred rebel cavalry, under Colonel Johnson, crossed the Ohio river into Illinois, at Sabine Bar, on Saturday. The steamers Kate Robinson, Jenny Perkins, Nightingale, Famine, Brandon and Clara Hall were all aground at that place, and were captured, with a large amount of
The Daily Dispatch: September 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], The cruise of the "Tallahassee." (search)
ht, Mr. Tynaus, our chief engineer, reported the coal fast going, and in order to get a fresh supply to continue our operations among the fishermen, Captain Wood turned for Halifax, and at dark we were dashing off thirteen knots an hour towards Cape Sable. Wednesday, 17th.--At 6 o'clock, when I woke were on Brown's bank, about forty miles from the cape. It was a dull, smoky day, the sea calm and the air cool. Although in the middle of August, an overcoat was not uncomfortable. Saw severa At 9, captured brig Neva, of East Machias, Maine, from Lyngan bay, C. B., to New York with a cargo of coals. Bonded for seventeen thousand five hundred dollars and prisoners put on board. Two o'clock, Made the Nova Scotia coast above Cape Sable, and during the day skirted along it, just near enough to distinguish the houses, villages and forts by the shore. A large steamer, standing to the southward, passed us at 3 P. M., but we had too little coal to give chase, even if night had no
The Daily Dispatch: September 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], [Second week.] (search)
ht, Mr. Tynaus, our chief engineer, reported the coal fast going, and in order to get a fresh supply to continue our operations among the fishermen, Captain Wood turned for Halifax, and at dark we were dashing off thirteen knots an hour towards Cape Sable. Wednesday, 17th.--At 6 o'clock, when I woke were on Brown's bank, about forty miles from the cape. It was a dull, smoky day, the sea calm and the air cool. Although in the middle of August, an overcoat was not uncomfortable. Saw severa At 9, captured brig Neva, of East Machias, Maine, from Lyngan bay, C. B., to New York with a cargo of coals. Bonded for seventeen thousand five hundred dollars and prisoners put on board. Two o'clock, Made the Nova Scotia coast above Cape Sable, and during the day skirted along it, just near enough to distinguish the houses, villages and forts by the shore. A large steamer, standing to the southward, passed us at 3 P. M., but we had too little coal to give chase, even if night had no