Steele, Captain, blockade runner _Banshee_, 84; mentioned, 74, 163. _Storm King_, 184, 185. Stubbs, Captain, blockade runner _Kate_, second, 118. _Susan Beirne_, blockade runner, ix, 199. _Tallahassee_, Confederate warship, 38. Taylor, Thomas E., escapes from Federal captors, 160, 161; mentioned, 153; quoted, 67-74, 83-85, 120-130, 163-166. _Tempest_, lost liner, 24. Terry, General, commands land attack on Fort Fisher, 209. _Thanemore_, lost liner, 22. Three-funnel boats, account of, 130, 131. Tidal waves, ships damaged by, 36, 37. _Titanic_, iceberg causes sinking of, 15. Topsail Inlet, wrecks near, 52, 75. _Tornado_, Spanish man-of-war, capture of steamer _Virginius_ by, 243. _Tuscarora_, U.S.S., blockader, 79, 99. _Umbria_, steamship, swept by tidal wave, 36. Usina, Capt. Michael, quoted, 108, 109. _Venus_, derelict blockade runner, 85-88, 90, 166. _Vesta_, derelict blockade runner, 97, 100, 101. _Vila_, derelict merchant ship, 10. _Virgin_, steamer. See _Virginius_. _Virginia_, blockade runner, name changed, 112. _Virginius_, steamer, barbarous treatment of officers and crew by Spaniards, 243, 244; capture of, 243; recognition by Spanish Government of American rights to, 246; rescue of part of crew of, 244, 245; sale of, 242; sinking of, 246. Vizetelly, Frank, correspondent of _London Illustrated News_, 160, 163. Vogel, Capt. Leo, 187. _Vulture_, blockade runner, 131. _Wachusett_, U.S.S., capture of C.S. _Florida_ by, 278. Walker, Maj. Norman S., Confederate agent, 131, 134. _Wartah_, steamship, capsizing of, 33, 34. Welles, Hon. Gideon, Secretary U.S. Navy, 100, 136, 142, 225. Western Bar of Cape Fear River, 223, 236. Whiting, American consul at Nassau, dispute with Captain Maffitt, 216; experience with Confederate flag, 216, 217. Whiting, Gen. W.H.C., commander Confederate forces in Wilmington, 91; mentioned, 67, 162, 191, 192; official report by, 91-93. Whitworth guns, 54, 58, 83, 91, 92, 93, 134, 170, 193, 197. _Wild Dayrell_, derelict blockade runner, 66, 72-78. Wilkes, Commodore, 108, 109. Wilkinson, Capt. John, account of activities in Confederate Navy, 221-227; commander blockade runner _Chameleon_, xii; C.S. steamer, _R.E. Lee_, 221; quoted, 221-231, 231-233. _Will-o'-the-Wisp_, blockade runner, 121. Williams, Robert, 198. Williams, Capt. Thomas, 21. Wilmington, N.C., advantages as port for blockade runners, 57, 94, 223, 266; approaches to, 266; Confederate troops stationed in and around, 92, 174; construction of Confederate ships at, 172, 174; effect of the war on, 227-229. Wilmington Historical and Literary Society, investigations by, 62-64.