Evening star., 1898-05-21
PRIZE MONEY FOR SEA CAPTURE.
bohanzns for Officers and Crews of
BIOckaderS in Civil War

From the Boston Journal
in the civil war many of the Union
cruisers and blockaders made CAPTURES
winch enriched their officers and gave real
bonanzas to their crews Thus. tne gun
boat Amanda. when she captured the
Swan, made S2D2 ,229S availab BILE for distribu
tlon The gunboat Augusta netted a round
S4oD,eoo by making a prize of the British
blockade runner Princess Royal: the brig
cambridge also took hand in the capture
Oh the Swan, when 500 29S was set aside
ior distribution. The cruiser Bienville
earned S202,000 for her lucky officers and
crew IN the capture of the Stettin and
9ioo,tpo more in the capture of the Patras;
lhe frigate Brooklyn, one of Farrasut
ightlns fleet, got Si67 ,494 for catching the
blockade runner Magnolia: the sloop-of-
war CanandaigUa caught S147.114 with the
slippery Cherokee; the gunboat Cimerone
was iii great luck with her $3.50 600 prize
Ataianta; the Circassian. a captured block
ade runner herself, earned a cool ouarter
of a million when with Uncle Sarys hlre
the Minna ~ '|0u
The sioop-of-war Cumberland, that ILL
1ated but glorious ship. which aftarva ri
fell a first victim to the Merrimac was ona
OF the SIX craft which shared the captura
OF the S2.F9,Gl0 Hiawatha. The smart littla
gunpoat tiambeau took one 800 900 prize
me Sunboat Huntsville shared in the SI6T
WD Magnolia: the Iron Age captured Soso
900 in the Robert f. Lee: the Iroqriois a
snare of S2G0,oO0 in the Merrimac. The
Magnolia took the Memphis which. shin
and cargo, made $510,9l4 available for dis
tribution i
The Mercedita. now an ungainlv coal
barge out of Boston. shared in the Sl6T.-
U"e distribution due from the Magnolia as
her confederate prize. The loubla-ender
octorora netted $3.50 600 when she brought
the Victoria under her guns; the great
swift side-whee!er, the Quaker CITY, one of
the best ships which the Union navy alb
sorbed from the merchant marine earned
Si3S.v0 in the capture of the Amy War
WICK, *l5oe1 in the Douro and a share of
sl43Oo in the Lily; the Rhode Island am
other last side-wheeler merchant cruiser.
took S.3o,26i ont of the blockade runner
tronstadt. There We're few richer. nriza
funds than the S356, 900 which the r. r
Cuyier, another merchant cruiser captured
in the Kate Dale.
The Santiago de Cuba still another
FAMOUS merchant lighting ship and one of
the fastest of the Union cruisers. was an
especial terror to our blockade running
bIiIsh brethren She took about a dozen
prizes The richest of them were the sl36
po columbia, the S174 600 Britannia and
the $3.50 900 Victory. When the Somerset
captured the Circassian, a fine fast iron
craft. the courts decreed s2O0.0o0 for prize
money. The South Carolina built at South
Boston, stanch iron propeller which be-
lore the war used to run between Roston
and New Orleans. helped in the capture of
- yi'' wv ThdsHolia ana dozen other
lesser prizes. Even the numbering old Sup-
ply, a store vessel, and a sailing shin at
Ihat, made prize of the Stephen Hart. a
S2500 capture
Ire sloop-of-war Susquehanna earned
S5eoooo In the Ann; the double-ender Tioga
shared In the $3.50 900 Victory: the ninety-
day gunboat Unadilla caught s231 OoO in
the Lodona and a share of the s4OO 900 prize
money due for the Princess Royal. The
vanderbilt which that patriotic millionaire
gave to the service-his own private Yacht
took $4,000 in the Peterhoff: $500 600
more was earned for distribution when the
swift Atalanta fell a prize to the stout
monitor Weehawken