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The Confederate Mystery Ship

Our American Stories / Lee Habeeb
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September 26, 2022 3:00 am

The Confederate Mystery Ship

Our American Stories / Lee Habeeb

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September 26, 2022 3:00 am

On this episode of Our American Stories, on July 9th, 1864, the Union army suffered a loss... that just so happened to save the United States and help solidify Lincoln's re-election.

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Georgianna started getting made in Glasco 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. Maybe I can rival United States.

The coffee, so what they did have that was money from selling the cash crops overseas and so they would get some of these ports, the building ships they cut this boat started getting made and there's an interesting spy game that happened between United States spies were over there watching the development of this boat because they have suspicions that was sent to the South and it was decent but so was it was an iron hold ironclad ship still had to mass that was fairly large.

It was mostly pretty fast and they were little concerned about it and I kept an eye on it and sure enough before they got you going sees it claimed that was actually going to the south and set sail with crew from Breitling to discuss child's actions Invite well maybe so their only job was to bring overseas delivered to Charleston that wasn't fit out as a worship.

It was still just a civilian ship source actually in the hole because the person who financed it was a profiteer during the war, southern profiteer and he was in a smuggling button spins anything he could smuggling was in the Senate over empty. I put all of these resources and trust is a really buns pencil make you rich well all the metal pins being used for cannons, but the uniforms the civilian population has absolutely minimal access to the supplies so he's looking for to bring a man have a payday and then he's going to transfer ownership of the vessel to the Confederate Navy and then they can do it as I see fit to be a commerce writer pretty fast. Maybe would get out and make havoc on the whaling fleet or something along those lines.

So it's coming across the ocean with no weapons of installed supposedly had for cannons in the hallway at the Museum. The other two are still mysteriously unknown, so maybe what I can find that to cannons, at least in the whole and is coming across and it has to do has to break the blockade plan that the north to the world was the Anaconda plan to choke himself. One of those is they can mostly afford a blockade on the bigger seller points in the can control the Mississippi River constrict the south of the submission. The harbor trust was blockaded by a sizable fleet, and so they had stake blockade. All the main harbor niche also comes from used to come from the South itself in the South to get into the city get over the sandbar and into an anchoring slot cut 57 whole, so to speak in the ship doesn't have. It's not like the paddleboat go over what are we going is a decent draft will there's a side channel, a channel that runs right along I scenic beach actually follow the beach down and then take my pajama then cut the harbor right where near portable trios and so the Confederates own the tablet or on the forks so luckily think they get too close but once you're inside the system forks as a blockade runner generally safe. Well, the trying to sneak and try to stay dark but there's an issue spotted by a look at ship but not necessarily military vessel but what is visits of Access America claim effective fame racing yacht that took place in some of the early races 1900s overseas action one them, and it was never expected winks American will actually gets commandeered by the U.S. Navy and it's a look at voting trust spots the Georgianna trying to sneak into the harbor and so it raises the lookout of five smalltime that raises the guns of the larger ships tonic and ships marriage have huge tenets rounds of fire, and pretty soon the drawing board and also is in their fight Confederate crew is here delivering the ship so they summarily turn it toward shore run aground. They all get off the boat. The paddle sure the cruise gets a relatively safe escape from his so the blockade showing the boat to try to destroy the forks also on the lands that showing the boat diluted what might be on board both sides keep showing the book showing Michelle in the boat and eventually burns them about the water line and there was a rumor that on board. This boat was a box of gold and is not treasure anything like that but you have a foreign citizens delivering this they have to have some way to pay them paying any domestic monies that help push a spate of gold currency that it would have submitted a the crew they don't know that gold is ever taken off the boat or if it made you left on the butt with both sides that are destroying the books and that neither side concluded that sexual led to the discovery was still golden board peasant on the stable was found his millions and millions of buttons, pins, everything just scattered across the seafloor around this thing they're still there actually have some on this planet sort cannons. There's also John's medicine on judging different various oils or bottles of oil as well.

So all of these are intended to be brought into the port immediately offloaded so Georgianna has unfortunately consumers and seamlessly sunk.

Kansas was mounted on the Georgianna state in the whole of the ship and then the Georgianna would stay would say undisturbed because throughout the war. Multiple ships will actually run into it and crash either on top the Georgianna or they would get a little bit closer to the city of Charleston and then sink and sure about generally debate decent job you connect to helping blockade that blockade that little blockade runner channel so you know, helping them more than the Confederates, but it's a fantastic great work on the production storytelling by Monty Montgomery.

Special thanks to John Freeman, Confederate history ship here on our American story.

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