Hebe
Blockade Runner · United Kingdom · Lost 1863 · The Outer Banks
An English twin-screw blockade runner was driven ashore in a gale near Fort Fisher, with fifteen Union sailors captured trying to board her.
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The Vessel and Her Loss
Hebe was a London-built iron twin-screw steamer carrying coffee, medicine, and military supplies when USS Niphon and Shokokon forced her ashore at Federal Point during a gale on 18 August 1863. Her crew escaped and salvaged most of the cargo before Confederate shore batteries captured fifteen Union sailors whose boats had capsized trying to board the wreck. Union warships shelled and destroyed the hulk's boiler and machinery in the days that followed.
Vessel
- 1863
- J. & W. Dudgeon
- London, England
- Iron
- 165 ft
- 23 ft
- Not established
- Steam, twin screw
- Not established
Loss
- August 18, 1863
- Enemy action
- Federal Point, about 8 miles north of New Inlet, North Carolina
- Atlantic Ocean
- Wilmington, North Carolina
- Not established
- Not established
- 0
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The Wreck Today
- 13.5 feet depth of hold
- Not established
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Position
- Not established
- Position not established
- Fort Fisher, Kure Beach, North Carolina
Evidence
Overall confidence: Documented (80/100)
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies (Carolana.com transcription)
Dimensions, cargo, casualty, and loss circumstances.
