_Phantom_, derelict blockade runner, 90, 102, 103, 104. Porcher, Doctor, 275. Porter, Admiral David D., U.S. Navy, commander attacks on Fort Fisher, 162, 209; quoted, 204-207. Preble, Commander, U.S. Navy, failure to capture Confederate ship _Florida_, 205-208. _President_, lost liner, 22, 23, 24. Prioleau, Charles K., 262. _Ptarmigan_, blockade runner, 131. _Quaker City_, U.S.S., blockader, 99, 102, 133. Quarantine experiences of blockade runner _Lilian_, 181-188. Range lights, along Southern coast, 231; on the "Mound," 231-233. _Ranger_, derelict blockade runner, 97-100, 101, 102. Reed, Captain, blockade runner _Lynx_, 95-97. _R.E. Lee_, blockade runner, successful deception by, 226, 227. _Resolute_ (British), derelict merchant ship, 13, 14. Ridgely, Captain, U.S.S. _Shenandoah_, 78. Roberts, Captain. See Hobart. Roberts, Lieutenant, captain of the _President_ and the _Sirius_, 23. Roe, Lieut.-Commander F.A., U.S.S. _Sassacus_, official report by, 75-78. Roosevelt, Hon. Franklin D., letter relative to rescue of steamer _Korona_ from, 48, 49; order declaring _Cyclops_ lost signed by, 29. _Rosario_, steamship, swept by tidal wave, 36. _Rouen_, blockade runner, capture of, 198. _Royal Charter_, sinking of, 22. Russellboro, N.C. (colonial), 284. St. Philip, Fort, location of, 169. _San Francisco_, destruction of a derelict by, 14. _Sassacus_, U.S.S., blockader, 74-77, 82, 83. _Savannah_, derelict merchant ship, 41. Scharf, Colonel, mentioned, 202; quoted, 231. Scipio, family servant, story of, 271-275, 285. Scotch brig, story of capture in 1813, 247-249. Seddon, Hon. James A., Confederate Secretary of War, 91, 93. _Seminole_, U.S.S., rescue work of, 41-49. Semmes, Captain, mentioned, 203, 204. _Shenandoah_, U.S.S., blockader, abstract log of, 264, 265; chases _Lilian_, 78, 94, 95; mentioned, 141. Ships, causes of destruction of, 30-40; damage by tidal waves to, 36, 37; malicious destruction of, 9, 10, 37-40. _Shokokon_, U.S.S., blockader, 91. _Siddartha_, derelict barque, 7. _Sirius_, first English-owned steamer to cross Atlantic, 23. Smith, Capt. C.G., quoted, 235-237. Smith's Island, 223. Smithville, N.C. See Southport, N.C. _Southern Historical Papers_, extracts from, 157-163. Southport, N.C., mentioned, 223, 230; wrecks near, 115. Spanish barque, rescue by Captain Maffitt of, 145, 146. Spanish Government, recognition of American rights to steamer _Virginius_ by, 246. Spies, Federal, in Bermuda and Nassau, 276. Sprunt, Alexander, 63. Sprunt, Alexander & Son, letter relative to rescue of steamer _Korona_ from, 47, 48. _Spunkie_, derelict blockade runner, 102, 103. _Stars and Stripes_, U.S.S., blockader, 60.