Underwater 60
WBM june 2017
The shipwreck of a Civil War-era blockade runner, Condor, just off Fort Fisher HHistory books are a great source of information. For instance, they can tell
you the Condor was a 220-foot, iron-hulled, triple-stacked, side-wheel steam-ship
built in Scotland specifically to be used as a blockade runner. They can
tell you that she ran aground during her maiden voyage on October 1, 1864,
coming to grief on a sandbar near Fort Fisher while trying to bring goods
into Wilmington during the Civil War.
A good historical source will include important details, like the resulting
drowning of the Condor’s most notorious passenger, Confederate spy Rose
O’Neal Greenhow.
PHOTO BY PETER NEWMAN/AERIAL IMAGES ILM. ILLUSTRATION COURTESY OF UNDERWATER ARCHAEOLOGY BRANCH.
