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Taken: Circa 1864
Caption: Steamship Colonel Lamb (Blockade Runner, 1864)
Additional Description: Colonel Lamb, a 1788-ton side-wheel steamer, was built at Liverpool, England, in 1864 for employment running the Federal blockade of the Confederate coast. She successfully ran into the port of Wilmington, North Carolina, in late November 1864 and escaped back to sea the next month. In January 1865, with east coast blockade running at an end, she went to the Gulf of Mexico but was found unsuitable for operation into Galveston, Texas, and returned to England a few months later. Reportedly sold to Greek interests and renamed Bouboulina, she was destroyed in an explosion while loading munitions at Liverpool in 1866 or 1867. U.S. Naval Historical Center [Lithograph NH 55257]
Submitted: March 16, 2010, by Bernard Fisher of Richmond, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p100728
File Size: 0.117 Megabytes

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