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WAR Si Blockade Runner Wi ado Forty-f Broken in two amidships, hard and , fast' ou a sand bar, about a ?nile olF shore from Seven Mile Beach, a deso late stretch of the New .Jersey coast, seventy milos from Philadelphia, is a vessel which, during the early part of th< civil war, sproul consternation among lin- Federal authorities un many, many occasion*. l''or years since that greatest siro ? ?. in modern history the craft luis i. plying the waters in the vicinity of New Vork and Philadelphia in the peaceful pur suit ol' commerce under the common place name ol' tho (juif Stream. I'ut ? when the conflict between North and and South raged fiercest she was one ! of the most successful blockade run- 1 ncrs that ever left a Southern port with a cargo of cotton or other va'ua- j hie freight or slipped hack imo Cou- j federate harbors with munitions of wai\ despite the watchfulness of offi- ! cers and crews who manned the block- j ading vessels of the North. In those early ?lays of her career thc vessel was variously called thc Caro lina, thc Kale and thc victory - for blockade runners changed names in those times as readily as they shifted cargoes or altered their course for safe harbors and sailing ports. But whatev er name thc craft hore at her bow or stern in war times she was a source nf trouble to the Union ves sels and crews. The daring aud in g-uuity of her skipper made her feared b Federal naval oflicers, and th J suc . -.-en she met with in exchanging products of thc Southland for arms and ammunition aided the rebel force s in their resistance to the Union army to an extent which will never ho known, but which was undoubtedly very material. Her career of trouble making was cut short in time sh''1 captured and subsequently did duty as u Union vessel under thc name of the Queen, blockading some of the very ports whose defenders, .s a blockade runner, site had previ .sly defied. Then came thc end of thc war; the sale of tho vessel to private parties and her entry on thc shipping records as a freighter, and finally her ignominious end in the clutch of thc Jersey sands. "Tho freight steamer Gulf Stream ashore off Anglesea, on thc Jersey coast. Crew rescued by life-savers." Such, in effect, was thc brief report given to the world of tho ending of the old vessel's career. To the general reading public this siujp'y meant that another hulk had been consigned to 1 the marino graveyard along thc Jersey J coast; that another craft had outlived ! its usefulness and would be abandoned 1 .to thc relentless buffeting and pound- ' ing of wind and waves until thc stanch oak beams should he wrouched ' apart and carried away ou the bosom J of the cvcr rcstlcss ocean, or perhaps 1 one or more be left sticking in thc 1 saud like giant fingers pointing warn ings tn other mariners J But the life savors and fishermen 1 along Seven Mile Beach are more f curious about sucn things lhau the ' average render of newspapers and they 1 were not long in learning that the ( Gulf Stream and tho Queen and the c Victory, Kate or Carolina were one 1 and tho same. Then as the captain- of I tho ill-fated craft told briefly of its career from Jaugching to foundering i the life cavers and fishermeu gave 11 voice to one sentiment. It was: 1 "She was worthy of a better fate." 1 Thc Gulf Stream, us the craft was c last called, went, ashoro in tho fog c Friday, January 30. She was laden \ with a general cargo and was da her \ way from New York to Philadelphia, t The Clyde Steamship Company, of J the Quaker City, are her owners and t the hales of wool and leather, heaps of I pig iroe and barrels of wines and t whiskeys which she carried were billed t to that company, lt was very foggy ? that morning, when, shortly after -I < o'clock, thc coast guard of tho Tba- 1 tam's Station heard the prolonged t tooting of a whistle that told of a ves- i - sei -in distress. There was a strong I southwest wind blowing and a heavy . sea was running. How the brave life-saving crew, un der Capt. R. S. Ludlam, put off in their boat and saved the crew of twenty men aboard thc stranded steam ar, with the assistance of the coast . guard from Anglesea, is not to be a part of this story. Sufhcicnt to say that all on board wcro rescued and . Capt. Jacob Swain brought ashore his papers and log hook, which never more will be used for thc Gulf Stream, for there was no saving the vessel. She struck the sand bar in such a way that abo broko just where the ougincs were : an i near where arc still visible the reo:- *fttwu shot holes, where in 1863 ^ tliiii v-two-pounder and a ball from anelevou inch gun went through her while she was running away from In ion vessels of war. There arc few tales of sea moro in uRIES. -?cked-J?an. the Block our Times. torcsling than tlie story of the Gulf Stream from the time of her launching. And so, to properly spin this yam, it will he necessary to go hack in history forty-two years ago. The vessel was built in Philadelphia and was launch ed :is tho Carolina early in 1801. She wa-an iron propeller vessel li 18 feet lon/, thirty feet beam, thirteen feet deep, with a draft ?d' only sis or seven feel, although of something over 700 tons burden, ll wai iii'.- intention of tin; Carolina's owners to engage her in trade, hut soon after she was launched came lin' firing on Sumter and the war was on. Invents followed each other rapidly in those days. President Lincoln pro claimed a blockade of thc Southern pints and every available boat the I inion tutees could hay or borrow was used to enforce the closing of the har bors of tho seceding States. It was then that blockade-running began. For to carry on thc war it was neces sary that thc Southern States should send away their cotton and other pro duce and receive in return arms and ammunition. To do this it was re quired to have ships that could outsail the Union gunboats and cruisers, for the blockade runner? had to slip through the cordon of watchful Union naval forces. It was thig kind of work which the Carolina was used for. Soou after her launching she was purchased by par ties backed by thc Confederate (Jov crmnent and her name was changed to the Kate. Under this title she bc camo one of tho most famous blockade runners. For months she was the hopi' of thc Confederates and the des pair of the Unionists. Naval records show that before she was captured she eluded tho blockading iieets no less than forty four times, each occasion netting thousands of dollars to her owners and bringing in much needed supplies to the rebels. Capt. Lockwood was jdaced in com mand of thc Kate by her owuers. Little is said of him personally in the war records, but he is mentioned wherever thc Kate is named, and the success which attended tho vessel's movements would indicate that bc was a most daring fellow. At first the Union blockade was la mentably inefficient. There were not enough boats, and those in charge of ' them, being unfamiliar with the South* 1 ern waters, became the laughingstock of their enemies. The blockade was called a "paper" one, and the Confed- ^ nracy insisted for a long time that 1 Lhere was no blockade, since her ships had little tl i flic ulty in getting in and 1 jut. I Latein 1S?1 the Kate began her ' work. She took on a cargo of cotton 1 it Charle??tou, and ono night, when * :hcrc was no moon, she slipped her ? sable and ?tood out to sea. 1 In due lime the Katu reached Kng and, where her cotton was sold for a i rood price and a load of arms' was i ?hipped. At that time, as is well I mown, langland wa? more friendly f oward the Confederacy, and a number I )f blockade runners were manned and i captained by Englishmen who went 1 tito the buoness, r?s high prices were. < )aid the crews of blockade rnnners. For the first year Ifittle mention is 1 nade in thc official records of the , ?vate, but the truth probably was the ' Cockade was so ineficefcive that thc; ' /nion vessels did not know when she 1 ?ame and went, l?ut towards th? mid lie of 1862 the Union forces hae> more estela and tho lines of tb?blockaders vere more closely drawn. Then it wa? hat the comings and goings of tho vate was noticed, usually to the mor ideation of those eouiraandiog tho dookading neeta It wsw after the hen notorious Kate had made moro han len voyages that ?he Was the subject of a strict inquiry on the part. )f Hear Admiral Goldsborough. The Kalo wax then sometimes known ap. he Carolina, and tho official ?r~.? uentt? of the timo about to be told of so refer to? her. Lo the annal? of the navy depart ment mention ia made of the Carolin? j in a letter written January li>, 1863? to William ll. Seward, Secretary of State, by Samuel Whiting, United States consul at Nassa?, New Provi dence in the Bahamas. The, letter was to the effect that a> few days pre vious the Carolina arrived at Nassau, had passed up the channel between tho Confederate ship Elizabeth Bon Bail and the Union gunboat Flambeau, and had dipped her flag to the Bon I sail, just as she wa9 opposite, the Un ion vessel. As tho harbor was a neu tral one, tho Carolina had no more to fear from tho Flambeau than if the latter was a thousand miles away. Consul "Whiting happened ioho tell ing of thc arrival of thc Carolina in Ithe presenco of Capt. Temple, of the Flambeau, and a number of other na val officers, a few days later. "Wi!!." remarked Capt. Temple, "if I liad been on board my vessel I would have acknowledged the salute of thc Canliua. She is an enemy, buta brave foo, and she did what was right in dipping her colors in a neutral port. "Dip the Stars and Stripes to a rebel ra^," wrote Mr. Whiting to Mr. Seward. "I told Capt. Temple I would sooner back my baud off than be guilty of such an act." Frequently thereafter did Mr. Whit ing have occasion to write to Mr. Seward, and in many of thc lottert mentioned that the Kate had arrive! at Nassau with a cargo of cotton, which always met with a ready sale. Nassau was a favorite port for thc blockade runners, as it was under British control and only 180 miles from thc coast of Florida. To avoid international complications the Con fed?rale ?kippers would dispose of their cargo to a firm, who would pre tend lo sell the stufl ou commission, ami the money thus acquired would usually be invested in munitions of war for the seccders. The cotton would be reloaded into English vessels and sent to Uugland, wluch country was in great need of it. Tho Kate, as were ether blockade runners, was painted a dull lead grey, a color hard to distinguish even a short distance away ?n thc daytime, and ren dering thc vessel almost invisible in the darkness of night. Anthracite coal was burned, producing little or no smoke, and when about to slip through thc blockading Meet all lights were ex tinguished, the hatches covered and thc steersman had to peer at the bin nacle lamp through a small slit in a piece of canvas. Atone time before her day came, the blockading fleet thought the Kate was t'oomcd to capture. She had been seen off the Florida coast in March, 1S*?ii, and had been chased by a num ber of Union vessels. She took refuge in Mosquito Inlet, near Port Royal, and hope ran high in the heart of the commander of the Atlantic squadron, S. F. Dupont, when ho received a message from thc captain of several ships, that at last the Kate was hemmed in. Dupont ordered the offi cers of the vessels to carefully guard lae inict waters, and they tried to, but the Kate made her escape one dark, rainy night, and waB free to con tinue her work. Another chapter of the naval records show that on August 10, 1862, James F. Armstrong, commanding the United States steamer Stato of Georgia, sta tioned off Wilmington, N. C., wrote to Rear Admiral Golsborough that he had learned from three contrabands, who came off the night before, that on August G the steamer Carolina or Kate, Lockwood, master, entered Wil mington from Nassau with liquor, clothing and fruit. She had bee? chased by some of the blockading Beet, Capt. Armstrong reported, and had lo throw part of her eargo over board to lighten her so that she could escape. i This news was received by the rear admiral with anything but favor, for the antics of Master Lockwood were beginning to pall on the Union fleet. 3o the rear admiral wrote back to L'apt. Armstrong, expressing his re ;ret at learning that the Kate had ?gain run the blockade. "This will never answer," reads the ?earadmiral's letter. "More vigilance must be exercised. Why ia it that jhe vessels stationed on the side the karolina entered have no knowledge of iho fact? Appoint a board of three impartial and suitable officers to in vestigate the subject of the entranco )? this vessel." The official inquiry was made, but imounted to nothing. The report of the inquiry was duly forwarded to the rear admiral. A few lays later Capt. Armstrong wrote tho rear admiral that the foroe of Union vessels off the coast of North Carolina was utterly inadequate to maintain the blockade. "The utmost? vigitanee is required from the vessels blockading," wrote Capt. Armstrong, "as the steamet Kate will endeavor to escape. On August 27, 1862, Capt. Arm strong again sounded a noto of warn ing to Hear Admiral Goldsborough, telling him that the Kate and a num ber of other vessels were preparing tc run ihc blockade. And the next heart of thc Kate was the escape, whicl Capt. Armstrong foared. It occurvet on the night of August 29 and tin Kate got safely out to sea. Thii brought forth a sharp letter from Act ing Rear Admiral S. P. Lee, of th flag ship- Minnesota, to Capt. Guatavu H. Scott, who at tho time-was th senior officer off Wilmington, N. C. "The department will be extreme! mortified to hear," wrote the aotin rear admiral, "that ihe Kate has ru the blockade of Wilmington, out b New Inlet, with a load of ootton, a article now so valuable that a sit gio cargo will purchase a largo quat tity of arms." And so tho Kate got off again saf ly with h'ir cargo. Sho must ha> made a quick trip to Nassau, whitb sho headed on most outward voyage for on September 25, about a mont later, she was lying to near Fort Ca well. Thero sho was discovered 1 thc Union gunboat Maratanza. 1 Capt. Scott, of thc gunboat, repot cd later that he approached thc Kate aa near as practicable, so as to keep out of range of the guns of thc fort. With a rifle gun he fired on the vessel, and came within such range that thc blockade runner had to weigh anchor and sait up the ."iver. She brought to a little way up, but the shots from the rifle gun of tho Maratanza again dropped perilously close to her and she was obliged to go farther up stream, where she was safe. The Kate, according to Scott, was very speedy, and he reported that she prob ably slipped through the blockading fleet, going ia on the night of Septem ber 24, 1802, which was dark and rai?y. This escapade of the Kate gave much annoyance to Acting Rear Admiral Lee, and he wrote to Com mander Scott, who had fired on her, that it seemed that the blockading fleet was not placed in the best posi tion to prevent blockade running, in view of thc many times thc Kate had entered and left Southern ports. The next oflicial record of thc Kate's movements is under date ol November 4, 1802. On that date thc Mount Vernon and the Daylight, ol the Union forces, attacked a larg? English bark off New Inlet, N. C. near Masonboro Inlet. The Confed crates stationed on shore sallied out tc the aid of the bark, aud the land forcei in boats succeeded in capturing twe boats from tho Daylight and one fron the Mount Vernon, together witt three officers and eighteen men. Bui eventually thc crew of the bark wai taken and the vessel burned. Th? mate of the bark, when questioned said the bark had passed at sea, a fev days before, thc blockade runne Kate. The Kate or Carolina-both namei were used-kept on running the block ade. She seemed to be impervious t< shot and shell, for as she slipped ii and out of the blockade she was iire< on time and again, with little or n< damage. In the navy records of th operations of the Union and Confed erate vessels there are frequent refer enees lo thc vessel, usually a state ment from one commander to anothe that he regretted to inform his supe rior that, the rebel steamer Carolina o Kite, as the caso might be, had agai slipped in under their noses with valuable cargo. Or perhaps the r< cord would be varied by a mentio that the boat nad slipped out agai with a valuable eargo of ootton. All sorts of efforts were made t capture or destroy the persistent blocl ade runner and there sprang up a fee ing of rivalry among the various ca] tains of the blockading squadron 1 see who would be the man luck enough to sink the floating rebe And it was not always easy sailing f< tho blockade* runner. Many a tin she was chased for hours, and thei were occasions when only by saorifi ing part of the eargo could the shi make speed enough to escape. Oftc part of the load of piteh would 1 placed under the boilers to get up greater head of Bteam. Once in slipping through a blocka ing lino the rebel craft was near taken because at the same time si was making the trial a clumsy ?id wheeler also attempted to run tl blockade. The-splashing of the pa dies of tho side-wheeler was borne thc ears of the erew of a Union gu boat and an alarm was given. T Union boat burned rockets, which d: closod tho presence of the Carola and then trained several guns on ht The shot flew thick and fast foi time, but Lockwood, seeing that co cealment was no longer possible, p on a full1 head of steam and cut for The firing brought a number of t blockading fleet together, and t Carolina, as she was then called, well as the stearne* which- had eaus nil the mischief, was under a bec fire. *B?t tho former managed to dr away beyond the range of the roo! lights, and the next morning she v under the Confederate batteries. T was one of the dosest calls the Ca lina had and Master Lockwood, telling about it afterward, used to i there was a minute when he thou] it was all up with his craft. The master of the Carolina had ingenious system of notifying those shore who wove interested in the oi that she was through tho line i ready to discharge her eargo. every light darkened, she would the blockade, and then, when i shore, she would display two Hg] one above the other, in tho rigging tho shore side, hut a screen on sea side kept this gleam from the \ of tho-' i- on the blockading vest Tho lookout on shore would Sis; answering lights, and the Carol! crew would kr . w that all waa safe that they could run into the barbe This triok was afterward taken vantago of by tho Union forces, by praotioing it they captured a i ber of blockade runners. Thc Carolina was ono of the fir the blockade runners to put into ] tice the blowing off of exhaust s under water. Thc exhaust pipe carried down below deok and thu noiso mado hy. tho csoaping s oould not bo heard. Quietude wi important factor in getting thr the enemy's line. With-such regularity had tho h ado runner's voyages been made, pite tho effortB uf the Union fleet to capture her, that the owners of the craft re-named her the Victory and under this name she continued her trafficking. But the vessel was not altogether immune and after having completed her forty-fourth voyage from supposedly blockaded ports she fell a prize to the Union vessel, the Santiago de Cuba, June 21, 1863. A few dajs before that the Victory had \ quietly slipped out from Charleston, with a valuable cargo of cotton and other freight, en route for Nassau. She went along with fair weather and Master Lockwood and his crew were congratulating themselves on having again fooled the Yankees. But whilo they were probably gloating over their success a lookout perched on the crosstree* of the Santiago de Cuba, commanded by R. II. Wyman, had sighted the Victory. They were then about fifty-five miles southwest from Eleuthcra Island. ^ The Santiago de Cuba headed for the Victory aud the captain of the blockade runner changed his course to due east, hoping to put distance be tween himself and his pursuer. But the Santiago de Cuba was a swift '..teamer and soon came within range of the Victory. The Santiago fired a shot from her forward rifle gun, but it fell short. Then there belched forth olouds of black smoke from tho funnel of the Confederate vessel. Capt. Lockwood, in his efforts to make speed, was burning rosin from the boat's cargo in her boilers. But still the Santiago de Cuba gained. Lock wood next sought to lighten his craft, and about 150 bales of cotton wero tossed into the sea. But this only served to postpone the inevitable. For five hours the raoe kept up bofore Capt. Wyman had his vessel where he could train several guns on the block ade runner. As the latter had no guns for defence there was nothing to do but surrender. The Victory did not lower her colors, for she carried none, but Skipper Lockwood ran up a white flag and a prize crew from the Santiago de Cuba wus sent aboard the vessel. Lockwood had no papers to show, for he had thrown them over board when he saw he oould not es cape. The Victory had on board 875 bales of cotton, in addition to the 150 thrown overboard. J&esides the cot ton she had 1,000 pounds of tobacco and i,hirey barrels of turpentine. She also had her bunkers full of good an thracite coal obtained from Nassau on ber previous trip there. This coal led to the discovery that the fuel had been exported from the United States, and, having been sold to English firms in the Bahamas, was purchased for the use of Confederate vessels As soon as this fact was learned the Union G-overnment stopped the exporting of coal until the war ended. At the time of the capturo of the Victory there were nor other Union vessels in sight. Some time after terward, however, the Union gunboats Tioga and Octorara, picked up seven ty-nine bales of cotton of the 150 thrown over from the Confederate steamer. The Victory was sent to Boston, and there she was taken by the Govern ment and her name was changed to the Queen. 'Her eargo and the value of tho vessel was $306,421 37, aud after all expenses had been deducted there was $299,908.45 left, which amount was divided among the officers and crew of the Santiago de Cuba. Years after the war was over Capt. Lockwood told how he had t?o long eluded capture while iu command of the old Victory. After getting his cargo he would wait in the harbor for a dark night, preferably a rainy or foggy night. Then, knowing every inch of the water, he would wlip out between two of the blockaders, which, because of the stretch of coasts they had to patvol, were sometimes far apart. 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