The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-02-25
WAR STORIES.
Blockade Runner Wr ,cked--Ran the Block
ade Forty-four Times.

Broken in two amidships, hard and
fast. on a sand bar, about a mile off
shore from Seven Mile Beach, a desc
late stretch Of the New Jersey coast,
seventy miles from Philadelphia, is a
vessel which, during the carly par, Of
tho civil war, spread CONSERVATION
among the Federal authorities IN
many, many occasions. For ycars
since that greatest slrur.lr in modern
history the craft has been plying the
waters in the vicinity Of New York
and Philadelphia in the peaceful plr-
suit Of under the
place name Of the Gulf Stream. But
when the conflict between North and
and South ragged i%icrccst she was one
Of the most successful blockade run
ncrs that ever left a Southern port
with a cargo Of cotton or other vaiua-
bic freight or slipped back into Con-
fcdcratc harbors with munitions Of
war, despite the watchfulncss Of Off
GERS and crews who manned the block
aiding vessels Of the North.
In those early days Of her career the
vessel was variously called the Caro-
lima, the Kate and the victory-ror
blockade runners changed names in
those times as readily as they shifted
cargocs or altered their course for safe
harbors and sailing ports.
But whatever name the craft bore at
her bow or stern in war times she was
a source of trouble to the Union YES
sells and crews. The daring and in
g~nuity Of her skipper made her feared
~ Federal naval officers, and tn, sue
. -scs she met with in exchanging
products Of the Southland for arms
and ammunition aided the rebel forces
IN their resistance TO the Union army
to an extent which will never be
known, but which was undoubtedly
very material. Her career of trouble
making was cnt shor! in time; she was
captured and subsequently, did duty
MS a Union vessel under the name of
the Queen, blockading some OF the
very ports whose defenders, 4, q
blockade runner, she had prcvi n.slv
dehcd. Then came the end Of the
war; the sale Of the vessel to private
parties and her entry on the shipping
records as a f%rcightcr, and finally her
lgnominious end in the clutch of the
Jersey sands.
Tho freight steamer Gulf Stream
ashore off Anglcsca, on the jersey
coast. Crew rescued by lifc-savers."
Such, in effect, was the brief report
given to the world of the ending of the
old vessels career. To the general
reading public this Simply meant that
another hulk had been consigned to
the marine graveyard along the Jersey
coast; that another craft had outlivcd
its usefulness and would be abandoned
to the relentless buffcting and pound
ing Of wind aud waves until the
stanch oak beams should be wrcached
apart and carried away on the bosom
OF the ever restless ocean, or pcrhaps
one or more be left sticking IN the
sand like giant fingers pointing warn
ings t" other mariners.
But The life savers and fishermen
along Seven Mile Beach are more
curious about sucn things than the
average reader Of newspapers and they
were not long in learning that the
Gulf Stream and tho Queen and the
Victory, Kate or Carolina were one
and the same. Then as the captain of
tho Inflated craft told briefly Of its
career from launching to ioundc,ing
the life savers and fishermen guve
voice to one sentiment. 1t was:
"She was worthy Of a better fate
The Gulf Stream, as the craft was
last called, went ashore in the fog
Friday, January 30. She was laden
with a general cargo and was On her
way from New York to Philadelphia.
The Clyde Steamship Company, of
the Quaker City, are her owners and
the bales Of wool aud leather, hcaps Of
pig iror and barrels Of wines aud
whiskeys which she carried were billed
to that company. 1t was very foggy
that morning, when, shortly after 4
o'clock, the coast guard Of she Tha-
tam's Station heard the prolonged
footing of a whistle that told Of o YES
sci in distress. There was a strong
southwest wind blowing aud a heavy
sea was running.
How the brave life-saving crew, IN
der Capt. II. S. Ludlam, put off in
their boat and saved the crew Of
twenty men aboard the stranded steam
1T ILo occ;ctonce IF the coast