Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. Series 1, Volume 6. Page: 62
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ATLANTIC BLOCKADING SQUADRON.
p. m. on that day we were underway in obedience to it. Near mid-
night we gave chase to a vessel showing a light, the men being at
quarters. At about 1 o'clock a. m., the 3d instant, the vessel we were
running for came in collision with this ship, running head on to her on
the starboard side, striking her nearly head on about our fore chains;
our helm at the time was hard to starboard. She proved to be the
U. S. S. Seminole, Commander Thomson. When she struck she swung
alongside of us, and we were in contact some minutes. After we sep-
arated I sent a boat on board to ascertain the damage sustained and
to know if the Scminole required any assistance. The boat soon
returned and the officer informed me that she had carried away her jib
boom and the head of her bowsprit, but did not require assistance.
This ship sustained no damage of any account.
About 11 a. m. of the same day, we overhauled and recaptured, after
a long chase, the American schooner Mary Alice, a prize to the rebel
privateer D)ixie, captured in latitude 290 N. and longitude 770 10'. I
put a prize master and crew on board and ordered her to New York.
Soon after we intercepted the brigantine Sarah Starr, an American-
built vessel under English colors, just out from Wilmington, N. C.,
with a cargo of naval stores, bound for Liverpool. She was national-
ized as an English vessel by the English consul of the States of North
and South Carolina, by a provisional register. The cargo was all the
produce of North Carolina, and, with the vessel, belonged to a gentle-
man, a passenger on board, a native of Rhode Island, but for many
years a resident of North Carolina, named Monroe. He is now on
board and seems to consider the whole proceeding, as to the vessel and
cargo, as a perfectly legal one on his part. His views and mine did
not accord, and I captured her and ordered her, under charge of a prize
master and crew, to New York. The captain of the Sarah Starr is a
rabid secessionist. Soon after the capture of this vessel the steamer
Rhode Island came near us, and her commander, Lieutenant Trenchard,
came on board to inform me he had fresh provisions and stores on
board for us. It took us till 8 o'clock in the evening before we got
through with all the business in hand, and had been lying to four or
five hours. One of the prizes, the Sarah Starr, drifted very fast to lee-
ward, and twice I had to run down to her. After all was gotten
through with we stood on our course. About 11 o'clock p. m. we found
the ship in shoal water, and she touched lightly on the outer part of
Frying Pan Shoal. Reversed the engine and backed her out without
difficulty or damage.
While lying to so long, and necessarily changing our course so often,
we must have been drifted to the southward and westward by a cur-
rent. The wind was very light and variable and the sea very smooth.
I have on board this vessel 22 persons taken out of vessels captured
or recaptured, namely: Three from the brigantine Hannah Balch, one of
whom, Chauncey Knapp, has shipped as ordinary seaman on board
this vessel for three years), 6 from the brigantine Solferino, 5 from the
schooner Mary Alice (privateersmen), and 8 from the brigantine Sarah
Starr, including Mr. Monroe (before mentionedd, the owner of the vessel
and cargo, as he informs me himself, with the exception of 50 barrels of
spirits of turpentine. A list containing the names of these persons is
here enclosed.
We have about ten or twelve sick people on board, including a
maniac from the Vandalia, who ought to be sent to the hospital, and I62
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United States. War Department. Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. Series 1, Volume 6., book, 1897; Washington D.C.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth192841/m1/85/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.