The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-12
MONEY FORSEA CAPTURE.
BOnanzns for Officers and Crews o.
BiOckaders in the Civil War.

In the civil war many of the Unior
| cruisers and blockaders made captures
which enriched their officers and gave
real bonanzas to their crews. Thus.
| the gun-boat Amanda, when she cap
| tured the Swan, made 500, ,29s avail
able for distribution. The gunboat
Augusta netted a round 100000 by
making a prize Of the British blockade
runner Princess Royal: the brig Balm
bridge also took a hand in the cap
ture OF the Swan, when $202,29S was
set aside for distribution. The cruiser
Bienville earned s202, 900 for her lucky
officers and crew in the capture of the
Stettin and $150.000 more in the capture
of the Patras; the frigate Brooklyn,
one of Farragut fighting fleet, got s167-
404 for catching the blockade runner
Magnolia: the sloop-of- Canandai-
qua caught $147,774 with the slippery
Cherokee; the gunboat Cimerone was
in great luck with her s450,0O0 prize
Atlanta; the Circassian, captured
blockade runner herself, earned cool
quarter Of a million when with Uncle
Sans bluetackets on deck she over
took and seized the Minna.
The sloop-of-war Cumberland, that
Inflated but glorious ship, which after
ward fell victim to the Merrimac
was one of the six craft which shared
the capture of the $2S9, 900 Hiawatha.
The smart little gunboat Flambeau
took one 100000 prize. The gunboat
Huntsville shared in the $4,000 Mag
nolia: the Iron Age captured s2SO000 in
the Robert +. Lee; the Iroquois
share of 100000 in the Merrimac. The
Magnolia took the Memphis, which,
ship and cargo, made $510,914 available
for distribution.
The Mercedita, now an ungainly
coal barge out of Boston, shared in
the s167 900 distribution due from the
Magnolia as her confederate prize. The
double -ender Octorona netted $330000
when she brought the Victoria under
her guns; the great swift side-wheel-
er, the Quaker City, one of the best
ships which the Union navy absorbed
from the merchant marine, earned
$13S000 in the capture of the Amy
Warwick, $150.000 in the Douro and a
share of $145, 900 in the Lily; the Rhode
Island, another fast side wheeler mer-
chant cruiser, took 1920, 264 out of the
blockade runner Cronstadt. There
were few richer prize funds than the
s356,O0O which the r, r. Cuyler, an
other merchant cruiser captured in the
Kate Dale.
The Santiago de Cuba. still another
famous merchant fighting ship, and
one of the fastest of the Union cruis-
ers, was an especial terror to our
blockade running British brethren. She
took about a dozen prizes. The rich
est of them were the $l36,000 Column
bia. the sl74O0O Britannia and the
s330,000 Victory. When the Somerset
captured the Circassian. a fine fast
iron craft, the courts decreed $500, 900
for prize money. The South Carolina,
built at South Boston, a stanch iron
propeller, which before the war used
to run between Boston and New Or
leans, helped in the capture of the
S167.00 Magnolia and a dozen other
lesser prizes. Even the numbering old
Supply, a store vessel and a sailing
ship at that, made prize of the Ste
phen Hart, a $250,00O capture.
The sloop- of-war Susquehanra earn
ed 5000, 900 in the Ann; the doube-ender
Tioga shared in the sS30,00O Victory
the ninety-day gunbcat Unadila
caught 1921 .Ooc in the Lodona ard a
share of the 100000 prize money due
for tine Princess Royal. The Wander
bilt. which that patriotic millionaire
gave to the service-his own private
yacht-took S373,O0C in the Peterhoff
$3.50, 900 more was earned for distribu-
tion when the swift Atlanta fell a prize
to the stout monitor Weehawken.