NEW YORK, Feb. 13.
The store ship Supply brings Ship Island dates of the 24th. She has on board the Captains and crew of the captured rebel steamer Anna Lunes and the schooner A. S. Pren, taken by the New London off Florida. Nothing new at Ship Island. – Troops healthy. Works progressing rapidly. The frigate Niagara, gun-boats New London, Hatteras, [Trasca], Coon, Pampero, Shipblock, Prince and brig J. P. Witherell, were anchored off the Island. The Supply boarded off Florida, on 30th, the British schooner, Saint Hart of Liverpool, whose Capt. said, was bound from Liverpool to Cardenas, but having no papers and being on the route to rebeldom, was taken by the Supply crew, put aboard and brought to this port. Her cargo is supposed to be arms and ammunition.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, February 14, 1862, p. 1
The store ship Supply brings Ship Island dates of the 24th. She has on board the Captains and crew of the captured rebel steamer Anna Lunes and the schooner A. S. Pren, taken by the New London off Florida. Nothing new at Ship Island. – Troops healthy. Works progressing rapidly. The frigate Niagara, gun-boats New London, Hatteras, [Trasca], Coon, Pampero, Shipblock, Prince and brig J. P. Witherell, were anchored off the Island. The Supply boarded off Florida, on 30th, the British schooner, Saint Hart of Liverpool, whose Capt. said, was bound from Liverpool to Cardenas, but having no papers and being on the route to rebeldom, was taken by the Supply crew, put aboard and brought to this port. Her cargo is supposed to be arms and ammunition.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, February 14, 1862, p. 1
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