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-- CIVILIAN SHIPS --
S.J. Waring (Schooner, in service 1861)
The American schooner S.J. Waring was about 150 miles
east of Sandy Hook, New Jersey, when she was captured by the Confederate
privateer Jefferson
Davis. Her captors put a prize crew on board and attempted
to take her to a Southern port for adjudication and sale. However,
on 16 July a member of her original crew, William
Tilghman, overwhelmed and killed the prize crew. He then sailed
the S.J. Waring to New York City, arriving on 22 July 1861.
This page features the only views we have related to the
schooner S.J. Waring.
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a larger view of the same image.
Photo #: NH 58895
"Schooner 'S.J. Waring', Recaptured from the Pirates by
the Negro Wm. Tillman."
Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 3 August
1861.
The civilian schooner S.J. Waring was captured by the
Confederate privateer Jefferson Davis in the Atlantic
off Sandy Hook, New Jersey, on 6 July 1861. On 16 July, William
Tilghman, the cook in her original crew, overwhelmed and killed
her Confederate prize crew with an ax, recapturing the vessel.
He brought her into New York on 22 July 1861.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 130KB; 580 x 675 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 59404
"The Attack on the Second Mate."
Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1861,
depicting the recapture of the schooner S.J. Waring on
16 July 1861.
S.J. Waring had been captured by the Confederate privateer
Jefferson Davis in the Atlantic on 6 July 1861. Ten days
later, her African-American cook, William Tilghman, overwhelmed
and killed her Confederate prize crew with an ax. He brought
her into New York on 22 July 1861.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 166KB; 740 x 585 pixels |
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