This steamer was built abroad in 1863 for the Confederate Government. At daybreak on the morning of the 7th of January, 1864, the cruiser _Montgomery_ saw the _Dare_ with Confederate colors flying near Lockwood's Folly, heading for Cape Fear. The _Montgomery_ and her consort the _Aries_ gave chase, the latter heading off the _Dare_, which endeavored to escape, but being in range of the guns of both pursuers for about four hours, she headed for the beach, and was stranded at 12.30 p.m. a little to the northward of North Inlet, near Georgetown, S.C. The weather was very stormy and the surf very high so that one of the Federal boats, in attempting to board the _Dare_, was capsized and her crew made prisoners by the Confederates behind the sand dunes. Other Federal boats reached the stranded vessel and set her on fire. The officers and crew of the _Dare_ escaped to the shore. The "Bendigo." In 1863, when the demand for suitable merchant steamers to run the Wilmington blockade could not be met, even at enormous prices, the eager buyers began to bid on the Clyde River steamers. Some of extraordinary speed but of frail construction were lost on the long and often tempestuous voyage across the Atlantic via Madeira and Bermuda, while others succeeded in passing the blockade with almost the regularity of mail boats. Of such was the _Bendigo_, previously named the _Milly_. Her description was as follows: Topsail yard schooner _Bendigo_; steamship of Liverpool, late _Milly_, 178 tons, built of iron, hull painted green, three portholes on either side fore and aft of paddle boxes. Elliptic stern, carriage and name on same painted white, bridge athwartships on top of paddle boxes; after funnel or smokestack, with steam pipe fore part of same, fire funnel or smoke stack with steam pipe fore part of same; draws eight feet six inches aft and eight feet forward. I am putting this description (now obsolete) on record because it was a type of many other blockade runners in 1863-64. The _Wilmington Journal_ of January 11, 1864, described the stranding of the blockade runner _Bendigo_ at Lockwood's Folly Inlet, from which it appears that the wreck of the blockade runner _Elizabeth_ was mistaken by the _Bendigo_ for a Federal cruiser, and in trying to run between the wreck and the beach the _Bendigo_ was stranded. The _Bendigo_ was discovered at 11 a.m. January 4, 1864, by Acting Rear Admiral S.P. Lee on his flagship _Fahkee_, who attempted with the assistance of the _Fort Jackson_, _Iron Age_, _Montgomery_, and _Daylight_ to haul off the _Bendigo_, in which they failed because the Confederate batteries on shore drove them off with the loss of the _Iron Age_, which got aground and blew up. The _Bendigo_ was set on fire and abandoned and her hull may be still visible at Lockwood's Folly Bar. The "Antonica."