The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-06-16
A Walk Among the Old Blockade Run

The Liverpool Mercury gives some in
telligencc of the fate of the old blockade
runners:
The occupation of the blockade.ruuners
being entirely at an end, the feet so long
and in so many cases so successfully en-
gagged in it are turning their faces home
ward again, and we daily hear of numbers
Of them being off the coast making for
London, Glasgow, or Liverpool. At this
port we have had our full share of them,
for on glancing up the list of vessels ly-
ing in the docks, we noticed no fewer
than twenty-five of them. In the Queen s
Dock we noticed the Alice, Captain Grant,
well-known runner of the blockade of
both Charleston and Wilmington, and
which must have repaid herself to her for
tunate owners over and over again !; she
was one of the most successful boats on
the station.
In the Sandon dock there is the Abb
gail, but she is a new steamer then there
is the Amy, which if we remember Alright,
had to put back to this port, when bound
to Bermuda, to begin her second career as
a blockade-runner. Another new steam
er, the Curlew, lies in the Coburg dock, ,
in the hands Of Messrs. Jones, Quiggiu &
Co. The Confederate States, Captain
Ramsey, occupies berth on the west side
of the Birkenhead Float; from her pres
ent nom de plume, and the changes she
recently passed through, it would be diff
cult to identify her with the steamer Lau-
rel, which conveyed the armament to the
new Confederate steamer Shenandoah, but
such is indeed the case.
The Caroline, Captain Hudgins, return.
ed from Nassau and Bermuda only last
week, making one of the fastest passages
home on record. She is q Clyde-b built
steamer, as is also the Emily, Captain
Egan, in the Canada dock. She, too, re-
turned, last week from Nassau. The Eu-
genie, Captain Porter, which has been for
some time lying up at Birkenhead, is per-
haps, one of the finest blockade.running
steamers in the port, as she is reported
fastest. She belongs to- Messrs. Frazier,
Trenholm u Co. The Fanny, in the Car
rier's dock, is fine steamer, sister ship to
the Emily and Caroline.
The Gibraltar, late Captain Reid, is
we'll known. She, it will be remembered,
conveyed to Charleston the two Blakely
guns which figured SO conspicuously in the
first if not in the more recent lombard
ment of that city. Capt. Reid, her COM
mander at the time, has, in command of
the Lynx, proved himself one of the most
daring Captains engaged in the business.
The Gibraltar is the Sumter which crea-
ted CONSERVATION among American ship
ping at the breaking out of the war, and
which, if we except the Nashville, was the
first Confederate vessel at sea. The Geor-
gia Bell, though magnificent looking YES
sci, has failed somewhere in the engine
room. She has never been at sea. The G..
Il. Watson, which, if we are correctly in
formed, is veritably the oldest blockade-run-
ner extant, is in the Carriers Dock. She
certainly was the last vessel that left
Charleston, the dock, shipping, etc., being
all fred by the Confederates as she steamed
from the wharf. The Hornet, Mazeppa,
Plover, Bay, Ruby, Rosina, Snipe and
Widgeon are all new vessels, models of
symmetry, and by their trial trips, are said
to be unrivalled in speed. The Chance
leon, Captain Wilkinson, is in the Clar-
ence Craving Dock. She, like the Gil
braltar, has figured in the double oapaci-
ty Of merchantmen and cruiser--having,