A correspondent of the Havana Diario de la Marina writes from Nassau, under date of Jan. 12th:
“You will have heard by the Reindeer, that her Britannic
Majesty’s steamer Conqueror of 100 guns, has gone ashore at Rum Key. The Bulldog went to her aid and brought away
yesterday forty cannon and as many men of her crew as she could receive on
board. On the 10th the Steady also went
to the relief of the Conqueror, and found her, we learn, in a hopeless
condition, filled with water and badly logged. – The Nimble had left to carry
the news of the disaster to Admiral Milne, who is at Bermuda
The Conqueror is one of the finest vessels of the British
navy. It has been built but seven years,
and its engine is one of 800 horse power.
It had transported a battalion of marines to Jamaica, and was on its way
back, under canvas alone, to Bermuda, by way of the Crooked Island
Channel. The undertaking was rash and
unusual, and has resulted as I have told you.
Much indignation is felt here at the action of the United
States Consul in selling to H. B. M.’s steamers Bulldog and Steady coal sent
hither for the supply of American naval vessels.
Several vessels were with cargoes destined for ports of the
Southern Confederacy, have recently sailed from Nassau.”
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, February 1, 1862, p. 2
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