Blockade runner VIXEN off Fort Monroe,Fort Monroe,Virginia,VA,Civil War,1864

Title: Fort Monroe, Virginia. Blockade runner TEASER off Fort Monroe
Date Created/Published: 1864 Dec.
Notes:

Vixen was one of three sisters built by Charles Mare at Pitchers Northfleet yard on the Thames and registered in the ownership of the European Trading Company in October 1864 . She was 225 feet long 26 feet breadth and drew 9 feet 6 inches with a 180HP 2 cylinder engine, the ships were described as of 'frail construction to keep down her weight with overly large paddle boxes' In December 1864 while running into Wilmington NC she was chased by two Union warships, Vixens captain headed upwind at full speed . At this point things started to fall apart, her lightly constructed hull began to flex so badly that a gap opened in the deck above the boilers causing the firemen to be drenched by water breaking across her bows . Things started to get worse, the floats of her paddles began to fall apart under the strain of the chase smashing into the paddle boxes and damaging them, when all the floats here gone she began to drift with her wheels still churning to keep her pumps working. The USS Rhode Island took Vixen in tow and headed for Norfolk VA for emergency repairs . At a prize court the vessel was condemned and sold to William A Hazard in May 1865.

Shipbuilding and Ships on the Thames, Proceedings of the third symposium 2006 Greenwich from an article by Kevin J Foster.

Title from Civil War caption books.
Caption from negative sleeve: Blockade runner VIXEN, off Fort Monroe, Va. December 1864.
Corresponding print is in LOT 4182.
Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Glass negatives--1860-1870.
Bookmark /cwp2003006413/PP/
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