Tod & Macgregor Shiplist

 

Yard No.:

 80

Name:

 CALEDONIA

Year:

 1856

Description:

 Paddle Steamer

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Tonnage:

 276

Length:

 163

Width:

 18.5

H.P.:

 90

Type:

 Iron

Customer:

 Stranraer Steam Company

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Notes:

          She was used as a blockade runner between January 1864 and May 1864, making two successful runs; Feb 12th 1864, to Wilmington North Carolina out of Nassau, returning on March 1st; and one failed one.

 

          A note about her Confederate captain:

(Bermuda History Quarterly Vol. 19, no 1, 1962) 31 Mar 1864, steamer "Caledonia/Caledocia" left here for Wilmington, commanded "by Capt Libbey, a new man, a Southerner."

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          However he did not prevail: on the 30th of May 1864, whilst attempting her third run, Caledonia was captured by the Keystone State and the Massachusetts, whilst trying to enter Wilmington, North Carolina.

[Lifeline of the Confederacy, Stephen R. Wise]