Vessels Engaged in Running the Blockade in 1863. (Those marked C had been captured or destroyed.) _Nina_ (C) _Leopard_ (C) _Antonica_ _Thistle_ (C) _Douro_ (C) _Calypso_ (C) _Granite City_ (C) _Flora_ _Ruby_ (C) _Eagle_ (C) _Havelock_ _Douglas_ _Annie Childs_ (C) _Wave Queen_ (C) _Giraffe_ (C) _Gladiator_ _Hebe_ (C) _Venus_ (C) _Juno_ (C) _Princess Royal_ (C) _Cronstadt_ (C) _Phantom_ (C) _Lord Clyde_ _Dolphin_ _Hansa_ _Ella_ _Spaulding_ (C) _Mary Ann_ _Mail_ (C) _Spunkie Cornubia_ (C) _Nicolai I_ (C) _St. John_ (C) _Hero_[3] _Gertrude_ (C) _Britannia_ (C) _Emma_ (C) _Georgiana_ (C) _J.P. Hughes_ _Banshee_ _Alice_ (_Mobile_) _Aries_ (_St. Thomas_) (C) _Neptune_ (C) _Norseman_ (C) _Merrimac_ (C) _Kate_ (C) _Orion_ _Siriens_ (_Sirius_?) _Atlantic_ _Eugénie_ _Cuba_ (_Mobile_) (C) _Raccoon_ _Arabian_ (C) _Jupiter_ _Gibraltar_ _Boston_ _Juno II_ _Scotia_ _Flora II_ _Herald_ _Elizabeth_ (C) _R.E. Lee_ _Beauregard_ _Sumter_ _Corsica_ _Bendigo_ _Diamond_ _Margaret and Jessie_ _Don_ _Pet_ _Charleston_ _Rouen_ _Hero II_ _Fanny_ _Stonewall Jackson_ Total, 75; captured and destroyed, 34. The "Hebe." Between the 15th of August and the 21st of October, 1863, the Federal fleet known as the "North American Blockading Squadron" drove ashore five blockade runners between New Inlet and Masonboro--the _Arabian_ inside the bar of New Inlet, which became an obstruction to our ships trying to pass her; the beautiful steamer _Hebe_ near Masonboro Inlet, the _Phantom_, the _Douro_, and the _Venus_ near each other off Masonboro Sound. As her classical name implies, the _Hebe_ was a fine example of marine architecture. She was loaded with a full cargo of drugs, coffee, clothing, and provisions, and although she was a fast ship of 14 knots, she seems to have made a bad landfall on the morning of the 18th of August, 1863, and while she was heading for New Inlet, distant about eight miles, she was intercepted by the Federal gunboat _Niphon_, when she up helm and ran ashore, the crew escaping in boats. When the Federals attempted to haul the _Hebe_ off the beach after she had run ashore, they met with formidable resistance by the Confederates. Owing to a heavy sea the _Niphon's_ boat was driven ashore and the Federals were attacked by a troop of Confederate cavalry and all of them were captured. A Confederate force of riflemen, supported by a battery of Whitworth guns, also attacked the cruiser _Niphon_ from the shore and drove the blockader away from the _Hebe_, but not before the Confederate had destroyed another Federal boat load of the enemy which attempted to land. The _Niphon_ and the _Shokokon_, the latter under the command of the celebrated Lieut. W.B. Cushing, then bombarded the _Hebe_ and set her on fire.