Minquas
Side-Wheel Steamer · Lost 1865 · The Outer Banks
Minquas and two supply barges were captured and burned on the Neuse River in April 1865.
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The Vessel and Her Loss
Minquas, also spelled Minquass, was a 160-ton side-wheel steamer built at Wilmington, Delaware, in 1864. Gaines records the vessel with two barges carrying quartermaster and commissary supplies on the Neuse River. Company A of the 67th North Carolina Regiment captured and burned the steamer and barges on April 7, 1865. The precise position and surviving remains are not established.
Vessel
- 1864
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- Wilmington, Delaware
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- 160 tons
- Steam, side wheels
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Loss
- April 7, 1865
- Fire
- Neuse River, North Carolina
- Neuse River
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- Quartermaster and commissary supplies carried by the steamer and two accompanying barges
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The Wreck Today
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Position
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- Neuse River, North Carolina
Evidence
Overall confidence: Documented (75/100)
Exact wreck position, present depth and surviving condition are not established in the reviewed sources.
W. Craig Gaines — Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks (LSU Press, 2008)
Individual Minquas/Minquass entry: side-wheel steamer, 160 tons, Wilmington construction in 1864; steamer and two supply barges captured and burned April 7, 1865 by Company A, 67th N.C. Regiment; cites OR 47:1:1134, 47:3:160 and MSV 146, 282.
