Record Data Place Unit Type City or Town Containing Unit West Indies Events Date Type 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 People Documents Images
