Galleon Hunter
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You guys are amazing ask a question and receive an intelligent answer... here are a few others I am trying to clear up for my book. I have looked at The Official Records of the Union & Confederate Navies, Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks, Graveyard of the Atlantic, Lifeline of the Confederacy, The Blockade Runners, Merchant Steam Vessels of the United States, etc.
Admiral Dupont, sank 1865 off the coast of NJ, everywhere I have found indicates she was a side-wheel steamer yet Gary Gentile in Shipwrecks of Delaware specifically states that a wreck there is NOT the Admiral Dupont because the Admiral Dupont WAS NOT a side-wheel steamer.
A few other Civil War Wreck problems...
The U.S.S. Sumter, one source claims she was built at Mystic CT in 1862 another Philadelphia in 1853.
USS Osceola built at Brooklyn in 1848 or New York in 1858.
USS Columbia, screw propeller or side-wheel steamer?
Confederate screw-steamer Havana, 169-tons, was chased ashore and burned in Dead Man’s Bay by the U.S.S. Isilda on June 5. Wise and Hemphill PLACE DEAD MAN’S BAY IN FL while another source places Dead Man's Bay in Texas??
A lot of times a mistake is made and other authors keep on repeating the same error. I ran into this when researching the USS Peterhoff. Several sources claim she was formerly a pleasure yacht belonging to the Czar of Russia. It is in several popular books, complete with picture depicting a side-wheel steamer. Yet the wreck of the Peterhoff is a screw-propeller. The source of the confusion stems from an error in a book published in 1924 and subsequently repeated numerous times. After much research, the Czar of Russia did have yacht named Peterhoff, but that vessel sank in 1850. The blockade runner Peterhoff never blonged to the Czar of Russia and was a screw propeller built at Sunderland, England in 1862.
So just because it's in print doesn't mean it's true. In most of these cases, there is enough info to see what is right and what is wrong, but in these cases, when you have conflicting information, it is often hard to sort out.
Anyway, thanks for any help with these new qyestions...
Galleon Hunter
Admiral Dupont, sank 1865 off the coast of NJ, everywhere I have found indicates she was a side-wheel steamer yet Gary Gentile in Shipwrecks of Delaware specifically states that a wreck there is NOT the Admiral Dupont because the Admiral Dupont WAS NOT a side-wheel steamer.
A few other Civil War Wreck problems...
The U.S.S. Sumter, one source claims she was built at Mystic CT in 1862 another Philadelphia in 1853.
USS Osceola built at Brooklyn in 1848 or New York in 1858.
USS Columbia, screw propeller or side-wheel steamer?
Confederate screw-steamer Havana, 169-tons, was chased ashore and burned in Dead Man’s Bay by the U.S.S. Isilda on June 5. Wise and Hemphill PLACE DEAD MAN’S BAY IN FL while another source places Dead Man's Bay in Texas??
A lot of times a mistake is made and other authors keep on repeating the same error. I ran into this when researching the USS Peterhoff. Several sources claim she was formerly a pleasure yacht belonging to the Czar of Russia. It is in several popular books, complete with picture depicting a side-wheel steamer. Yet the wreck of the Peterhoff is a screw-propeller. The source of the confusion stems from an error in a book published in 1924 and subsequently repeated numerous times. After much research, the Czar of Russia did have yacht named Peterhoff, but that vessel sank in 1850. The blockade runner Peterhoff never blonged to the Czar of Russia and was a screw propeller built at Sunderland, England in 1862.
So just because it's in print doesn't mean it's true. In most of these cases, there is enough info to see what is right and what is wrong, but in these cases, when you have conflicting information, it is often hard to sort out.
Anyway, thanks for any help with these new qyestions...
Galleon Hunter