Many blockade runners were given corresponding names, _Owl_, _Bat_, _Badger_, _Phantom_, _Lynx_, but none seemed to be more appropriate than that given to a little toy steamer from the Clyde named _Spunkie_. She was not fast but she managed to make several successful runs. When I saw her in Nassau I could scarcely believe that this little cockleshell of a boat had crossed the North Atlantic and had run through the blockading fleet. The commander of the Federal cruiser _Quaker City_ reported to Admiral Lee February 13, 1864, that he had discovered the _Spunkie_ ashore at daylight on the 9th on the beach a short distance west of Fort Caswell, but he could not determine whether she was attempting to run in or run out. Two tugs belonging to the blockading fleet made repeated but ineffectual efforts to float the _Spunkie_ and she still lies near Fort Caswell. As the _Spunkie_ was loaded with blankets, shoes, and provisions for the Confederate soldiers, there is no doubt she was trying to come into the river by the Western Bar when she ran ashore. The "Phantom." This was a new Confederate steamer built abroad on the most approved lines for the Confederate Government. She was a handsome iron propeller of about 500 tons, camouflaged, as were all blockade runners, to decrease her visibility. The usual method was to paint the hull and smoke funnels a grayish green to correspond with the sea and sky and the coast-line sand dunes, which often made them invisible even at close range. There were two Federal cruisers most dreaded by the blockade runners because of their great speed: the _Connecticut_ and the _Fort Jackson_. The former made many prizes. At daylight, the morning of September 23, 1863, when about fifty miles east by north of New Inlet, the _Phantom_ was discovered by the _Connecticut_ standing to the eastward. The _Phantom_ was bound from Bermuda for Wilmington with a very valuable cargo of Confederate arms, medicine, and general stores. She had evidently made a very bad landfall too far to the northward and eastward at daylight and was running away from the land until darkness would help her into Cape Fear River, when she would face the fleet again. But the _Connecticut_ gave chase at her top speed and after four hours' vain effort to escape, the _Phantom_ suddenly hauled in and ran ashore near Rich Inlet, where she still lies. The crew escaped in their own boats, after setting the _Phantom_ on fire. The Federals attempted to put out the fire and salve the _Phantom_, but failed to do so. The "Dare."