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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Prize Arrived

NEW YORK, May 29 – The prize steamship Stella, from London, arrived from the gunboat [Bichle].  She was captured on the morning of the 24th off cape Roman while attempting to run the blockade at Charleston.  Her cargo of brandy, wines, salt peter, &c., is valued at half a million dollars.  She was from Nassau, N. P., and her crew reports another large steamer expected from Nassau, the same to run the blockade.  She is an iron propeller of 100 hores power and 800 tons burthen.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 31, 1862, p. 3

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