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Here's John Freeman. With the story. Mm. It's called the SS Georgiana, not the CSS as Confederate ships were sometimes called, but the SS, because technically at the time. technically it was a civilian ship.
So, Georgiana started getting made in Glasgow, actually in Scotland, because it's a neutral territory and When the South went to war in the Civil War, they didn't really have the Industrial base to build a navy that could rival the United States. I mean, that's a tall feat.
So what they did have though is money from selling their cash crops overseas. And so they would get Some of these ports to build them ships that they couldn't.
So, this boat started getting made, and there was an interesting spy game that happened between United States spies who were over there. watching the development of this boat because they have suspicions. This boat was gonna get sent to the south. And it was a decent boat.
So it was an iron-hulled, iron-clad steamship that still had two masts. And it was fairly large. It was supposed to be pretty fast. And they were a little concerned about it. And they kept an eye on it, and sure enough, before they could actually go and seize it, claiming that it was actually going to be delivered to the south, it had set sail.
With a crew from Britain or the Scottish Isles, and it actually was captained by an ex-Royal Navy officer.
So their only job was to bring it overseas, deliver it to Charleston. That wasn't fit out as a warship yet. Still, just a civilian ship with stores actually in the hold because the person who financed it. was a profiteer. During the war, a southern profiteer, and he was going to smuggle in buttons, pins, anything he could smuggle in.
He wasn't going to send it over empty.
So he put all of these resources in it. He was going to smuggle it to Charleston. And he said, Really, buttons and pins will make you rich?
Well, If all the metal for pins is being used for cannons and all the buttons are being used for uniforms, the civilian population has absolutely minimal access to these supplies.
So he's looking forward to bringing them in and have a payday and then he's going to transfer ownership of the vessel to the Confederate Navy and then they can deal with it as they see fit, probably be a commerce raider. It's supposed to be pretty fast. Maybe it would get out and wreak havoc on the whaling fleet or something along those lines.
So it's coming across the ocean with no weapons installed. Supposedly, it had four cannons in the hull. We have two of them here in the museum. The other two are still mysteriously unknown, so maybe one day I can find them if I'm lucky enough.
So it's got two cannons, at least in the hull, and it's coming across. And what it has to do is it has to break through the blockade. The plan that the North took during the war was called the Anaconda Plan. They're going to choke out the South. One of those is they can mostly afford a blockade around the bigger southern ports.
And then they're gonna control the Mississippi River. And with that, they're gonna constrict the south into submission. The harbor at Charleston was blockaded by a sizable fleet. And so they had to sneak through the blockade.
Well, the main harbor near Charleston comes from, well, used to come from the south. You'd have to set up from the south to get into the city. You'd get over the sandbar and into an anchoring spot called, I think it's called Five Fathom Hole.
So to sneak in, this ship doesn't have a very narrow draft. It's not like it's a paddle boat that can just go over just a couple feet of water, but oh, it needs a decent draft.
Well, there's a side channel called Moffett's Channel. That um runs right along a nice scenic beach, actually. They're gonna try to follow the beach down and then take Moffett's Channel and then cut into the harbor right where near um Fort Moultrie is. And so the Confederates own the town, they own the forts.
So the blockading fleet can't get too close. But once you're inside the system of forts as a blockade runner, you're generally safe.
Well, they're trying to sneak in, trying to stay dark. But there's an issue. They get spotted by a lookout ship. It's not necessarily a military vessel, but what it is, is it's The SS America, I believe is its name. It's actually a famed racing yacht that took place in some of the early races in the 1800s overseas and actually won them.
And it was never expected to win because America never participated.
Well, it actually gets commandeered by the U.S. Navy and it's a lookout boat in Charleston and it spots the Georgiana trying to sneak into the harbor. And so it raises the lookout and it fires with its small gun. That raises the guns of the larger ships, like the Housatonic and the other ships in the area, to have huge 10-inch rounds that they can fire. And pretty soon the Georgiana is getting pummeled because they don't have any weapons on board.
And also, this isn't their fight. They aren't a Confederate crew. They're just here delivering the ship.
So they summarily turn it towards shore. under the ground. off the boat, they paddle ashore and The cruise gets through relatively safe and unscathed. The problem is you have a boat sitting here now.
So the blockade starts shelling the boat to try to destroy it. The forts also on the land start shelling the boat because they don't want anybody to loot it for what might be on board.
So both sides keep shelling the boat, shelling the boat, shelling the boat. And eventually it burns down about to the waterline. There was a rumor. that on board this boat was a box of gold. And it's not, you know, treasure or anything like that, but you have a foreign citizen delivering this, they have to have some way to pay them.
Paying them in your domestic money is not going to be any help, so let's just pay them in gold currency.
So they would have had some way to pay. The crew, they don't know if that gold was ever taken off the boat or if it may have been left on the boat when both sides started destroying the boats and neither side could loot it. That's actually what led to the boat's discovery: maybe there was still gold on board. It hasn't been found to this day, but what was found is millions and millions of buttons and pins and everything just scattered across the seafloor around this thing. And they're still there.
We actually have some on display next to our cannons. There's also jugs with medicine on them, jugs with different various oils or bottles with oil as well.
So all of these were intended to be brought into the port and then immediately offloaded.
So the Georgiana has unfortunately unceremoniously sunk. The cannons that were supposed to be mounted on the Georgiana stayed in the hull of the ship. And they're the Georgia Air Wood Stay. It wouldn't say undisturbed because throughout the war multiple ships would actually run into it and crash either on top of the Georgiana or they would get a little bit closer to the the city of Charleston and then sink. uh in shore, but George Anna really did do Decent job for the Union of actually helping blockade that little blockade runner channel.
So, you know, ended up helping them more than the Confederates, but uh. It's a fantastic history. And great work on the production and storytelling by Monty Montgomery. A special thanks to John Freeman, the Confederate Mystery Ship. Here on Our American Story.
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