Derelicts: An Account of Ships Lost at Sea in General Commercial Traffic

Derelicts: An Account of Ships Lost at Sea in General Commercial Traffic - And a Brief History of Blockade Runners Stranded Along the North Carolina Coast, 1861-1865

An Account of Ships Lost at Sea in General Commercial Traffic and a Brief History of Blockade Runners Stranded Along the North Carolina Coast 1861-1865 "Some night to the lee of the land I shall steal, (Heigh-ho to be home from the sea!) No pilot but Death at the rudderless wheel, (None knoweth the harbor as he!) To lie where the slow tide creeps hither and fro And the shifting sand laps me around, for I know That my gallant old crew are in Port long ago Forever at peace with the sea!" The Song of the Derelict. Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. About twenty-five years ago I wrote for the Southport Leader a series of stories of the Cape Fear blockade from my personal experiences as a participant in the blockade runners Advance, Eugnie, North Heath, Lilian, Susan Beirne, and finally in the Alonzo, which greatly interested the Cape Fear pilots who had taken part with me in this hazardous service and were found entertaining by some other readers. Later, in the year 1901, I contributed at the request of Chief Justice Walter Clark for his admirable North Carolina Regimental Histories an account of my personal adventures and observations in the North Heath, Lilian, and Susan Beirne, in the capacity of purser, or paymaster, at the age of seventeen and a half years, and as prisoner of war on the Keystone State and the Glaucus, Federal cruisers, and later prisoner of war in Fort Macon and in Fortress Monroe. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 56277
Author: Sprunt, James
Release Date: Dec 31, 2017
Format: eBook
Language: English