01/16/1865
A brand-new British blockade runner sinks in a storm the day she sails from Liverpool, drowning forty-seven people
Crime/Disasters
09/30/1866
- 10/02/1866
A deadly hurricane hits the Caribbean, first the Turks and Caicos and then Nassau in the Bahamas.
Crime/Disasters
10/16/1861
Confederate diplomats James Mason and John Slidell slip through the Charleston blockade bound for Europe
US/the World
05/11/1865
In Cuba, a powerful Confederate warship reaches Havana from Lisbon in Portugal and learns that the war has ended
Battles/Soldiers
01/02/1862
In South Carolina, a Confederate steamer easily avoids the U.S. Navy and enters the blockaded port of Charleston
Battles/Soldiers
04/28/1862
New British built steamer Oreto arrives in the Bahamas, a secret purchase of the Confederate Navy
US/the World