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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, 1861-1865Sprunt, James

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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

Name: 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
Author: Sprunt, James

Sprunt, James

Blockade; Derelicts; North Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865

Lamb, Mrs. William, story of devotion of, 157-163.

    Lamson, Lieutenant, U.S.S. _Nansemond_, official report by, 85-87.

    _Lancaster_, finding of derelict by, 9.

    Lawley, Francis C., correspondent of _London Times_, 160.

    _L.E. Cann_, derelict merchant ship, 9, 10.

    Lee, Gen. R.E., loss of gift sword for, 55.

    Lee, Admiral S.P., U.S. Navy, commanding North Atlantic Blockading
    Squadron, 74, 78, 106, 135, 143;
      official reports by, 98-100, 135, 136, 137-139.

    Lights. See Range Lights.

    _Lilian_, blockade runner, account of last successful run of, 263-285;
      capture of, 38, 203;
      chase of, 94, 95, 264, 265, 279-284;
      mentioned, ix, 39, 177, 202;
      quarantine experiences of, 181-188.

    _Loch Torridon_, steamship, swept by tidal wave, 36.

    Lockwood, Capt. Thomas J., blockade runner _Elizabeth_, 61;
      _Kate_, 115, 116, 117, 213.

    Lockwood's Folly, wrecks near, 52, 61, 106.

    _London_, sinking of, 22.

    Long, Joseph Brown, 131, 134.

    Lorraine, Sir Lambton, captain British man-of-war, _Niobe_, rescue of
    part of crew of steamer _Virginius_ by, 244, 245.

    Lost Liners, accounts of, 21-40;
      financial losses by, 23;
      number of, 22;
      number of lives lost on, 23.

    Lost liners, accounts of individual ships:
      _City of Boston_, 22, 24;
      _City of Glasgow_, 24;
      _Cyclops_, 25-29;
      _David G. Worth_, 21;
      _Huronian_, 24;
      _Naronic_, 24, 25;
      _Pacific_, 22, 24, 35;
      _Pericles_, 35;
      _President_, 22, 23, 24;
      _Tempest_, 24;
      _Thanemore_, 22.

    _Louise_, derelict merchant ship, 8.

    Lumina, N.C., wreck near, 55.

    _Lynx_, derelict blockade runner, 95-97, 102, 110.


    McCaleb, Flora, 112.

    McCrae, Lieut.-Col. John, quoted, vii.

    McDonald, Captain, ship _Storm King_, 184, 185, 186, 188.

    McDougal, George C., character of, 61;
      mentioned, 115, 116, 118;
      quoted, 213-219.

    Macon, Fort, 134.

    Maffitt, Eugene, 188.

    Maffitt, Capt. John Newland, account of activities in Confederate Navy,
    201-212;
      attempts to enter forts taken by Federals, 209, 210;
      character and ability of, 203, 204;
      daring run of, 143-148; dispute with American consul at Nassau, 216;
      finding of last port closed, 199, 201, 202;
      in command of _Lilian_, 39, 266;
      of _Owl_, xii, 110;
      last voyage in command of _Owl_, 208-212;
      mentioned, 109, 111;
      orders to, 110, 212, 266;
      paper on building of ram _Albemarle_, 202;
      regard of Federal officers for, 203, 204;
      remarkable run into Mobile Bay on _Florida_ by, 205-207;
      rescue of Spanish barque by, 145, 146;
      takes
    charge of ram _Albemarle_, 266;
      of _Oreto_ (_Florida_), 215, 278.

    Malingerers, stories about, 177-179.

    Mallory, Hon. S.R., Secretary of Confederate Navy, mentioned, 276;
      order by, 110, 111.

    _Malvern_, U.S.S., blockader, 137.

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