of Charleston Harbor. , East Indiaman (trading vessel), 395 tons, 400 feet. Purchased by the Navy at Mystic, Connecticut, on 20 October 1861. Sunk in the main channel of Charleston, South Carolina, in December 1861. Sarah M. Kemp, was a schooner purchased at Baltimore, Maryland, on 13 August 1861. The ship was to be sunk in the channel leading into the North Carolina sounds; however, no record of her final disposition has been found. , a 606-ton whaleship purchased on 9 November 1861 at New London, Connecticut. She was beached with Peter Demill and Cossack on 8 December 1861 to serve as a wharf during the landing of troops at Tybee Island, Georgia, at the mouth of the Savannah River. (bark), 245 tons, 300 feet, mentioned in Melville's poem. Purchased for the Navy at New London, Connecticut, on 16 October 1861 by George D. Morgan and R. H. Chappell. Under Master O. Sisson she was loaded with blocks of granite from New England and sailed on 20 November 1861. On 19–20 December Tenedos and 15 other ships were sunk off the bar of Charleston's main channel. List of ships in the second fleet America (ship) 418 tons Dove (bark) 151 tons Edward (bark) 274 tons Emerald (ship) 518 tons India, (ship, 366 tons) was purchased at New Bedford, Massachusetts, on 14 November 1861, and sunk in the Maffitt's Channel approach to Charleston on 26 January 1862. Jubilee (bark) 233 tons Majestic (bark) 297 tons Marcia (bark) 356 tons Margaret Scott (bark) 330 tons This ship was bought from the US Marshall in New Bedford, after it had been confiscated as a slave ship. She was sunk 20 January 1862 in Maffitt's Channel in Charleston harbor. A woman named Margaret Scott had been executed in 1692 as one of the Salem Witches. Mechanic (ship) 335 tons Messenger (bark) 216 tons USS Montezuma 424 tons Newburyport (ship), of 341 tons, had been launched at Newbury in 1834 (ship) 368 tons (bark) 274 tons (bark) 261 tons, missing off Charleston, SC, 25 January 1862. (brig) 200 tons (ship) Valparaiso (ship) 402 tons was a bark of 311 tons, built as a whaler in 1836. Mentioned in Melville's poem as the Lee. See also American Civil War Union blockade Union Navy References Bibliography Treasures of the Confederate Coast: the "real Rhett Butler" & Other Revelations by Dr. E. Lee Spence, (Narwhal Press, Charleston/Miami, 1995)