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The second USS Potomac was an old whaler the United States Navy purchased on 1 November 1861. She was a part of the "Stone Fleet ," a group of ships used to block the entrances to Confederate harbors during the American Civil War , and was sunk for this purpose on 9 January 1862.[1]
The sinking of the "Stone Fleet" is memorialized in a poem of that name by
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References
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships . The entry can be found here .
Shipwrecks
2 Jan: Northern Light
4 Jan: Santi-Pietri
9 Jan: USS Meteor , USS Potomac
20 Jan: USS Margaret Scott
23 Jan: Ocean Chief
24 Jan: USS Peri
25 Jan: USS New England , USS Stephen Young
26 Jan: USS India , USS Timor
7 Feb: CSS Curlew
8 Feb: CSS Sea Bird
10 Feb: CSS Appomattox , CSS Black Warrior , CSS Fanny , CSS Forrest
20 Feb: USS Isaac N. Seymour
25 Feb: USS R. B. Forbes
8 Mar: USS Congress , USS Cumberland
9 Mar: CSS George Page
10 Mar: USS Whitehall
March (unknown date): Camilla (or Memphis )
4 Apr: CSS Red Rover
7 Apr: CSS Grampus
8 Apr: CSS New Orleans
14 Apr: Erebus
19 Apr: USS Maria J. Carlton
24 Apr:
25 Apr: CSS Mississippi , CSRC Pickens , Pioneer , Washington , CSS Pamlico
28 Apr: CSS Louisiana , CSS McRae
April (unknown date): CSS Jackson , CSS Oregon , CSS Carondelet
10 May: USS Cincinnati , CSS Germantown , USS Mound City , CSS Fulton
11 May: CSS Virginia
15 May: CSS Jamestown
May (unknown date): CSS United States
6 Jun: CSS Little Rebel
16 Jun: CSS Maurepas
26 Jun: CSS General Earl Van Dorn
28 Jun: USS Island Belle
15 Jul: Johanna Wagner , USS Sidney C. Jones
21 Jul: USS Sallie Wood
24 Jul: Lord of the Isles
6 Aug: CSS Arkansas
14-15 Aug: USS Sumter
23 Aug: USS Adirondack
24 Aug: USS Henry Andrew , USS Isaac N. Seymour
10 Sep: USS Tigress
2 Oct: Iona
15 Oct: G. L. Brockenborough
25 Nov: USS Ellis
November (unknown date): USS Mingo
12 Dec: USS Cairo
31 Dec: USS Monitor
Unknown date: USS Noble
Other incidents