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blockaderunn: was ni Nor Did Capt. Fenn Peck, a Ship, Although 1 by Yankee Captain Peck, on the quarter deck * ViAnconrl trtnripr UI a river iuu ui a. muuouuU Oft sailed the sea as a blockade runner. For acting quick he knew the trick Of playing discreet to slip the watch of the blockade fleet. Of the many skippers who distin- , guished themselves by running the blockade of Confederate ports during the war, probably the most successful j and therefore, most famous, was j Capt. Fenn Peck, of Charleston. Capt. j Peck went out of port to the un- j Known sea long ago, but his fame is i still fresh in the memory of a few j old-timers. Starling Lebby, L. M. j Coxetter, the Lockwood brothers, Tom and Bob, Peter Tecklenberg, j and others less well remembered, j won distinction in the damgerous game, but Capt. Fenn Peck made more runs than any of them and mnndftd off his career by never being | caught or losing a ship. Prior to the war Capt. Peck was in j the peaceful employment of a coast-, ing skipper. He commanded at dif- i ferent times the sea-going steamer ' Cecile, which plied between Charleston and Florida ports, and the river ! steamer William Seabrook, which j threaded the tortuous inland passage to Beaufort. But the advent of thej war carried him further off shore.! His first deep sea venture was made early in 1861, when John Fraser & Co. sent him to Liverpool to pilot an English steamship loaded with j arms into a Confederate port. Even then it was no easy voyage' to Liverpool, so Capt. Peck had to sail over both land and sea. He first i made his way to Canada and began j his ocean voyage from Montreal or j Quebec. Returning, he planned originally to bring his ship into Hatteras Inlet, on the North Carolina coast, but nearing that haven he overhauled a Federal merchantman and secured newspapers, which appsised j him of the fact that Hatteras Inlet had been taken by the Yankees. Knowing there was a big blockading j fleet off Charleston, he headed for Savannah and succeeded in bringing his vessel by night inside of Tybee Island. That was the first vessel to '* 1 1?'? pAnfodora^r mil 1116 OlUCKciUC UX lLie vuuicuwut,/| , but unfortunately I have not been j able to get her name and others give % i her the distinction which is ner due. She was afterward converted into the . Confederate gunboat Commodore! Tatnall. Brought Arms from Nassau. Shortly afterward Capt. Pgck was placed by John Fraser & Co. in command of his old vessel Cecile, in, which about 10 o'clock one night, he skipped out of Charleston harbor unobserved by the blockading fleet and proceeded to Nassau for a cargo of arms. Instead however, of returning j to Charleston he ran across the Flori- i da Strait to Smyrna, where he land- j ed his arms successfully. About the same time, the steamer .Kate, commanded by Capt. Tom i Lockwood, also from Nassau, and loaded with arms, made the same port. These two cargoes of arms were conveyed over land to Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, and with them j he fought the battle of Shiloh. An incident connected with the landing of those arms is illustrative of the! intrepidity of the blockade runners, i Capt. Lockwood wishing to take his wife and family over to Nassau j ran up to Charleston for them, while his ship the Kate, was unloading. Railroad communication between j Florida and Charleston was not in those days what it is to-day and Capt. Lockwood was longer in making the j round trip than he expected to be. When he returned to Smyrna, he found his mate had already carried i the Kate back to Nassau. Nothing daunted Capt. Lockwood purchased a sailboat and carried his family across the strait. Capt. Peck after bringing the Cecile back to Charleston was trans^ ^ V>T? T/-v Vl ir> T7VoO?>T? Jfr C n tn tVtP iCHCU O villi X A UOVl W v/ v . vv V..V, Herald, afterward renamed Antomila. He made one round trip in the Herald, but, for some reason that has been forgotten, turned her over for the second voyage to Capt. L. M. Coxetter, who will be remembered by old Charlestonians as the commander after the war of the steamer dictator. which plied for years between Charleston. Savannah and raeksonville. Capt. Coxetter successfully eluded the blockaders, but ran into a thrilling experience at the very end of his voyage. He made Nassau at night and lay in the offing to take a pilot aboard next morning. Feeling that his voyage was safely over he turned in for a good night's rest, after warning the mate not to let the ship drift more than a mile off shore. Nevertheless, when he went on deck i ER WHO iVER CAPTURED of Charleston, Ever Lose Frequently Chased Gunboats. ::t daybreak his ship was fully ten miles away from the entrance to the harbor. I~iu<?hed at Broadside. As he headed for port a man-ofwar was steaming down on him. He supposed it was the British ship stationed at Nassau and promptly sent aloft the Royal George. However, the approaching dog-of-war proved to be the United States sloop of war Adirondack, which ran alongside. The men behind Uncle Sam's guns could not have been as good in those days as in these, for the Herald was unhurt and the only effect of the broadside was to make Capt. Coxetter ring "full speed ahead." Then followed a blood-stirring chase; the Herald having the speed, but the Adirondack the weight of argument in the shape of broadside after broadside. Capt. Coxetter, pistol in hand, stood upon the top of a paddle box directing the course of his ship so as to avoid as much as possible the aim of the broadsides. Every time the Adirondack manoeuvred to t deliver a broadside he would steer the Herald so as to put her out of the course of the missiles. He handled his ship so well that, though somewhat damaged in rigging and smokestack, she was struck in the hull only once and there without serious injury. The United States officer commanding the Adirondack seemed to forget all about the threemile limit for the last shot he fired j flew over the Herald as she was passing the outer harbor buoy. The good people of Nassau were thrown into a fever of excitement by the early morning salute, and his majesty's station ship went down the harbor to meet the ingoing and somewhat dishevelled blockade runner. The latter was signalled to stop so as to be boarded. Her majesty's naval representative was properly indignant and he took written attestations from Capt. Coxetter and his subalterns that a British ship, flying the British flag, had not only been fired upon on the high seas by the United States sloop of war Adirondack, but also actually chased and fired on at the harbor mouth. Primed with that explosive ammunition the British frigate steamed forth to overhaul the United States j sloop of war and Capt. Coxetter and his still shivering crew expected soon to hear the latter blown out of water, j But a blissful silence ensued and later in the day the two war vessels were descried steaming amicably into harbor side by side. What had happened was something like this: Y4> 9H1UUK iWtUCU It. | The British commander showed his j hand to the United States commander. The latter expressed astonishment of the strength of the cards and admitted it would be useless to play out the game. The proper thing was to apologize for disturbing the serenity of her majesty's representatives and forthwith salute the British flag. The salute was cordially returned and the visiting officers were invited up to town for refreshments. At the best hotel in Nassau, that afternoon, according to an eye witness, there was an animated discussion of the evtraordinary happenings of the 6ea, accompanied by a continuous fusilade of popping corks. All of which goes to show with what ease international complications may be averted if the parties in acting possess the requisite discretion. Capt. Peck's next vessel was the Leopard. later called Stonewall Jackson. He made two successful trips in her and then turned over the command to a Capt. Black. Capt. Black ran safe out of Charleston harbor and returning had escaped the blockaders. But coming in the Swash channel he ran too close in shore and grounded on the bar that runs out on the Isle of Palms side of Breach Inlet. The Jackson never made port again. She left her bones on the bar, but at least a part of her cargo was saved. * The foregoing facts have been gleaned from Capt. Peck's son, Thomas F. H. Peck, who was chief engineer on all of his father's ships. Chief Peck, now 73 years old, lives at 18 Bee street in this city. He is badly crippled by rheumatism, but his j mind is clear, though he is somewhat forgetful of dates and names not intimately connected with his personal experiences. He is now generally known as Capt. Peck, but he modestlvy explains that he got the title from commanding the steam dredges of the Marine and River Phosphate Mining Company that dug up the bottom of the Stono river for phosphate rock after the war. Son Also Played the Game. Capt. Thomas Peck, as engineer, < WAR MUNITIONS FOR ULSTE Guns and Cartridges to Resist He Rule. Belfast. Ireland, April 25.?A c signment of 4 0,000 rifles and 5< 000.000 rounds of ammunition fi Germany was landed at isola points on the coast of Ulster ] night and distributed by means 200 automobiles to the various he Quarters of the Ulster "volunteei The Ulster men who declare th< selves determined to offer armed sistance to the introduction of he rule were mobilized early last ni and guarded the landing places ; roads until the distribution of arms had been completed. The polire were powerless '< all communications were interru ed. Cabinet Stirred. London, April 25.?Gun-runn exploit of the Ulster "voluntee stirred the British cabinet into s den activity to-day. Premier quith, who was on the way for country residence for the week-e was stopped by telegraph and retu ed to London immediately. There conferred with Augustin Ben chief secretary for Ireland, and c er colleagues in the cabinet. Ma Gen. Sir Cecil MacReady, of the i office, participated in the conferei m i Full line legal blanks and bh books can be had at Herald B( Store. Mail orders promptly fille ran the blockade even more freque ly than his father and like him 1 the good luck never to be captu or run ashore. His last ship was Alice, which ran the blockade w the regularity of a packet liner, as puts it. Almost every ten days i was on the go between Charleston Wilmington and Nassau or Hamilt Bermuda. A steamer named Fai ran with equal regularity, but C* Peck cannot recall who commam her. The Alice was owned by Willian Bee & Co. and commanded first Capt. James Eagan and Capt. Gn The Durser of the Alice was Eug Jervey, a nephew of Theodore D. J vey, one of the members of the f of William C. Bee & Co. After the war Eugene Jervey ? became a member of the firm. H< still living, and now connected v the Virginia-Carolina Chemical c< pany. The carpenter of the Alice 1 Hugh Ferguson, afterward for ? eral years sheriff of Charleston co ty. Ferguson died some years ag The Alice was a fast steamship those days, capable of making ab 13 knots an hour. She was about 000 tons burthen and could carrj least 1,200 bales of cotton. Be much faster than the majority blockaders, she usually had little d cultv in eluding them, but on voyage she had a narrow and m< orable escape. It was toward close of the war. The Federals, i fiting by Iheir blockading experiei had posted a second line of cruis on the west edge of the Gulf Strei so as to intercept blockade runn leaving port by night at dayli next morning. The Alice had Wilmington by night and esca ^ x ^ nro Knt rj in6 dtsl nue ui uiu^nuuvio, uub u morning was menaced by a purs under full press of steam and sal away up to windward. Cotton Dumped Overboard. To lesson the chances of detect steam blockade runners did not ( ry sails. The pursuer, thereft held a substantial advantage and 1 visibly gaining. Capt. Grant ki that his main chance of safety 1 edging up to windward so as to 1 the enemy into a course where sails could not draw, but he had b caught so far to leeward that he 1 in a fair way to be caught before could get far enough to windwj The enemy continued to gain and last chance of the Alice lay in thr ing her cargo overboard. Accordir over went the cotton bales. In 550 bales were pitcnea into tne and as her burthen was lightened Alice began to drop the enemy. ' Gulf Stream was like a cotton stor yard. Every merchantman in si* and there happened to be a g many, bore down on the floating bj and lowered boats to pick them However, the Alice escapd with so: thing like 700 bales, which she la ed safe in Nassau. The Alice kept out of the clutc of blockaders to the end, and a: the close of the war was taken acr the ocean from Nassau to Engla with the prestige and glory of an beaten racer. While Capt. 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