Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-04-23
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States tug Bailey was destroyed by a
mine in Roanoke river.
10. December, 1864, the United
States gunboat Otsego, 974 tons, 10
guns, was destroyed by mine in
Roanoke river.
20. January, 1865, the United
States monitor Patapsco, S44 tons, 2
guns was destroyed by mine off
Charleston.
21. February, 1865, the United
gunboat Osceolo, 974 tons, 10 guns
crippled by drifting torpedo in Cape
Fear river.
%. March, 1865, the United States
gunboat Harvest Moon, 546 tons, 8
guns destroyed by mine at Charleston.
%. March, 1865, the United States
transport Thorne, 403 tons, destroyed
by mine in James river.
"a. March, 1865, the United States
gunboat Altken, 73 tons, l gun, de-
stroyed by mine in Blakely river.
25. March, 1865, the United States
monitor Milwaukee, $40, 4 guns, de-
stroyed by mine in Blakely river.
26. March. 1865, the United States
monitor Usage, 529 tons, 2 guns, de.
stroyed by drifting torpedo in Blakely
river.
27. April, 1865, the United States
gunboat Rodolph, 2l7 tons, 6 guns,
destroyed by mine in Blakely river.
%. April, 1865, the United States
gunboat Ida, 104 tons, gun destroyed
by mine in Blakely river.
20. April, 1865, the United States
gunboat Sciota, 507 tons, 5 guns, de-
stroyed by mine in Mobile Bay.
80. May, 1865, the United States
transport R. B. Hamilton, 400 tons,
destroyed by mine in Mobile Bay.
Here, in the infancy of submarine
warfare, the Confederates, who had
everything to learn, succeeded in blow
ing up and totally destroying "a Fed
eral warships and transports and dis
abling six others, while on their side
they escaped with the comparatively
trifing loss of three small vessels,
blown up accidentally by their own
mines, and one armorclad, the Albe-
marie, blown up by Federal torpedo
attack. Since this time the progress
and development of torpedo warfare
has been necessarily pushed forward
to perfection by the most eminent
chemists, scientists and engineers of
the age, while the increasing size,
weight and displacement of modern
battle ships and cruisers render them
more and more liable to destruction
by the latest forms of torpedo or
submarine mine attack than was the
fleet of smaller war ships engaged in
the Federal cause.
On January II, 1885, the well.known
shipbuilder, J. D'Aquilar Samuda,
launched from his works at Poplar an
armored cruiser for the Brazilian gov
ernment, which was named the Aqui-
daban. The success of this vessels
performances in regard to speed, man
euvring powers and perfection of Of
fensive and defensive capabilities
caused great interest to be accorded to
her not only in England, but through
out the world.
About this time the chief construc-
tor of the United States navy was on
visit to this country, buying up for
his government all the best and latest
information he could possibly obtain
of modern man of-war construction.
Following this visit Mr.. Hichborn, in
book he afterward published for pri-
vate circulation among American naval
officials, reproduced detailed plans of
the Aquidaban, and from these plans,
slightly enlarged, the Maine was built.
The Aquidaban was torpedoed by
the Paraguayans, and the Maine now
lies at the bottom of Havana harbor,
the victim of a mysterious explosion.