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Charleston but missed her and it was thought they landed on Romain beach. She was officially traveling in ballast, but because the death of Haiti's president was considered imminent, the timing was certainly right for her again carrying guns and/or a significant quantity of money for either
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and prominent officials are also said to be parties to the plot. The outbreak of the revolution, which had been considered imminent for some time, partly due to
Hippolyte's poor health, was expected daily so the time was certainly ripe for the smuggling of both guns and money.
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indignant captain claimed she was totally innocent. Her capture and the circumstances of her release resulted in an international incident. Haiti ended up paying $ 7,500 for the "unlawful" seizure, and the State of
Illinois passed a resolution honoring Captain Kellogg.
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struck on Cape Romain shoals and stove a hole in the engine room compartment. The water quickly filled the fire rooms, rendering the engines useless. The steamer floated off the shoals soon after striking, and at 3 a.m. sank in six and one half fathoms of water, the
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A reporter made an investigation of the arms on the Clyde docks. Some 500 rifles, in cases of ten each, were piled up on top of each other at the entrance of the dock. The cases were marked in large stenciled letters, 'Rifles,' and addressed to 'S. Cape
Haytien.'
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When the Clyde People endeavored to ship arms through the insurgents secretly, the
Haytian consul in this city endeavored to stop the ship. But now that the company is shipping warlike material openly no word is said in opposition to its plans.
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The cases of rifles were piled up all around three larger cases. One case was about 10 by 12 by 15 feet. This case and two other smaller ones of about 6 by 4 by 10, also marked "S. Cape
Haytien," bore in heavy stenciled black letters the words
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was not for her own use, but it was cargo, and said to be the first of $ 1,000,000 meant to replace a previous issue of paper money. The money was probably being replaced because it had been issued by the prior
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300:, which sails in a few hours for ports in Hayti and San Domingo. The greater part of her hold, it appears, will be used for storing place for arms and gunpowder for the alleged Haytian rebel, Hyppolyte.
373:) who were supporting the overthrow of a government would not have accepted paper money because it could become worthless simply with the change of regime. The same article mentioned that the
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But the most deadly of all these warlike appliances was discovered when a wooden box about fifteen feet long, one foot square and with both ends carefully sealed with zinc, was examined.
464:"bearing Northwest by West, half West, six miles distant." The crews took to the boats, saving only part of their clothing. The engineer with ten men went off to board the steamer
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381:, which they hoped to convert to a warship. Gold was then approximately $ 20 an ounce, so $ 80,000 in gold would have been approximately 4,000 ounces.
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was described as in "fair condition, and is a very successful piece of wrecking work." It was this act of salvage that placed her into
American hands.
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According to Spence the wreck is "in surprisingly good condition with most of the ship relatively intact and sitting upright."
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This steamer was definitely a powerful and well-built ship as evidenced by the fact that she was selected and used to tow the
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shoring up the existing regime, or for financing an insurrection. Such money would have needed to be in gold, not paper.
185:. She was named after the Ozama River in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, which was one of her regular ports of call.
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Fifty cases of cartridges are also on the dock addressed to the same party. The cases each contain 1,000 cartridges.
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overall 216 ft 5 in (65.96 m); quarterdeck 76 ft (23 m); forecastle 30 ft (9.1 m)
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733:, (Oswego, New York), Volume 51, #248, November 23, 1894, p. 1, c. 4 "A Dozen Shipwrecked Sailors Rescued"
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The dock of the Clyde
Steamship company at Pier 15, East river, is fast assuming the appearance of an
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Twenty-Fifth Annual List of
Merchant Vessels of the United States, for the year ended June 30, 1893
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The wreck site was discovered in 40 feet of water off Cape Romain by underwater archaeologist Dr.
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on prior trips, was seized by the
Haitians who returned her only after the American man-of-war
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carried $ 300,000 in paper money to Haiti in March 1889. The paper money brought in by the
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through the engine type, length, width, type of decking, and other construction details.
455:, bound from Philadelphia to Charleston in ballast. Captain Bennington reported that the
745:, (New York), Extra 2 o'clock edition, September 12, 1894, p. 1, c. 7 "Ten Men Executed"
700:(Salt Lake City), Volume 25, #165, November 24, 1894, p. 1, c. 1 ("Stuck on the Shoals")
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648:, (Oswego, New York), Volume 51, #248, November 23, 1894, p. 1, c. 3 "Southern News"
396:. The president's son-in-law was implicated and was ordered to be shot but escaped.
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picked up off the Georgetown Bar Captain Bennington and twelve men of the steamer
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684:, (San Francisco), November 24, 1894, p. 1, c. 5 "On Romain Shoals, The steamer
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of the best make and latest improvements. It was also marked 'S. Cape Haytien.'
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cook and steward were charged with mutiny by their captain, and held for the
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Laws of the state of Illinois Passed by the Thirty-Seventh General Assembly
624:, (Bridgeport, Connecticut), Volume 19, #155, December 29, 1888, p. 1, c. 3
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was the second of the great dredges to be used in the construction of the
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588:, (Boston, Massachusetts), Volume 58, #17810, May 15, 1885, p. 7, c. 1
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government had paid $ 80,000 in gold for the wood hulled steamship
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The attendant on the dock said that the mysterious box contains a
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in 1881, at Leith, Scotland. She had a colorful history, with a
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600:, (Richmond, Virginia), #10671, September 12, 1885, p. 3, c. 3
552:, (Richmond, Virginia), #10671, September 12, 1885, p. 3, c. 3
540:, (Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1893), p. 340
234:
756:"Smuggler's Shipwrecked Steamer Found : Discovery News"
426:, Captain Kellogg, threatened to shell Port-au-Prince. The
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in 1979. Spence identified the wreck in June 2013, as the
288:. A contemporary newspaper carried the following account:
157:, weighing 1028 tons, was the former British steamer
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Sims-Dudley 4 Inch Dynamite Gun on a field carriage
181:, and the second, in 1894 on the outer shoal of
66:Ramage and Ferguson's shipbuilding yard at Leith
296:during war times. At the pier is the steamship
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241:into Norfolk by the American wrecking steamer
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8:
435:1894: Wrecked at Cape Romain, South Carolina
416:, which had been openly involved in weapons
517:"SS CRAIGALLION Yard No 29 Ramage-Ferguson"
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636:, April 4, 1889, "Hayti's Rival Claimants"
113:1,028.01 gross; 766.37 net; 762 under deck
806:Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1894
357:, or because it had been devalued due to
576:, Triple Sheet, February 20, 1884, p. 10
438:
672:, (Springfield, Illinois, 1891), p. 220
660:, July 2, 1889, "Indignant Yankee Tars"
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197:from New York to Central America, the
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177:twice, the first time in 1885 in the
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7:
229:and was wrecked. She was afterwards
388:coincided with the discovery of a
137:15 ft 1 in (4.60 m)
129:30 ft 1 in (9.17 m)
14:
1227:Shipwrecks of the Carolina coast
1222:Shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean
31:
392:to overthrow Haitian president
447:On November 23, 1894, the tug
1:
209:1885: Wrecked in the Bahamas
409:1889: Seizure for smuggling
217:, which was in distress at
183:Cape Romain, South Carolina
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1217:Maritime incidents in 1894
688:Struck and Then Went Down"
280:There is no question that
221:in April 1885, parted her
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586:Boston Evening Transcript
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1232:Treasure from shipwrecks
622:Bridgeport Morning News
443:Cape Romain Lighthouses
105:General characteristics
521:www.leithshipyards.com
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598:The Richmond Dispatch
550:The Richmond Dispatch
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163:Ramage & Ferguson
151:The American steamer
1212:Ships built in Leith
698:The Salt Lake Herald
334:1889: Shipping money
213:The British steamer
189:1884: Towing history
58:W.P. Clyde & Co.
1179: /
527:on 20 January 2014.
225:, drifted upon the
760:news.discovery.com
731:Oswego Daily Times
646:Oswego Daily Times
562:Oswego Daily Times
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341:The New York Times
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100:, 23 November 1894
74:17 May 1881 as SS
1183:33.005°N 79.359°W
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743:The Evening World
462:Cape Romain light
268:1888: Gun running
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1104:Sarah Dixon
875:Valkyrie II
863:Los Angeles
371:Filibusters
367:Mercenaries
314:Gatling Gun
215:Craigallion
175:shipwrecked
161:, built by
159:Craigallion
98:Cape Romain
76:Craigallion
1207:1881 ships
1201:Categories
1174:79°21′32″W
1171:33°00′18″N
814:Shipwrecks
503:References
379:Carondelet
286:gunrunning
262:Grand Jury
247:Cragallion
173:. She was
171:gunrunning
142:Propulsion
1127:RMS
1116:Pickhuben
1032:Huntcliff
971:Wairarapa
887:Matchless
827:Kearsarge
710:The Times
418:smuggling
394:Hippolyte
359:inflation
935:Jingyuan
911:Chaoyong
899:Colonist
402:legation
398:Attachés
375:Legitime
369:(called
243:Resolute
231:salvaged
71:Launched
1112:19 Nov:
1092:Lurline
1076:c. Oct:
1064:c. Aug:
1040:21 Mar:
1028:12 Feb:
1003:c. Dec:
991:22 Dec:
979:23 Nov:
967:24 Oct:
955:26 Sep:
947:Yangwei
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931:17 Sep:
923:Zhiyuan
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835:26 Feb:
466:Planter
428:Ozama's
423:Ossipee
361:and/or
294:arsenal
258:Ozama's
223:hawsers
179:Bahamas
110:Tonnage
82:Renamed
63:Builder
25:History
1153:1895 →
1146:← 1893
1100:9 Nov:
1088:9 Nov:
1052:3 May:
895:9 Sep:
883:3 Sep:
871:5 Jul:
851:Aarhus
839:Detmar
823:2 Feb:
355:regime
239:Nassau
167:mutiny
118:Length
1124:Unkn:
995:Abana
983:Ozama
686:Ozama
494:Ozama
483:Ozama
457:Ozama
453:Ozama
414:Ozama
386:Ozama
350:Ozama
346:Ozama
298:Ozama
282:Ozama
237:from
235:towed
227:reefs
154:Ozama
87:Ozama
55:Owner
49:Ozama
959:Ohio
390:plot
233:and
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126:Beam
93:Fate
44:Name
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