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Photo #  NH 58895:  Schooner S.J. Waring.  Engraving published in 1861


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S.J. Waring (Schooner, in service 1861)

The American schooner S.J. Waring was about 150 miles east of Sandy Hook, New Jersey, when she was captured by the Confederate privateer Jefferson Davis. Her captors put a prize crew on board and attempted to take her to a Southern port for adjudication and sale. However, on 16 July a member of her original crew, William Tilghman, overwhelmed and killed the prize crew. He then sailed the S.J. Waring to New York City, arriving on 22 July 1861.

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Photo #: NH 58895

"Schooner 'S.J. Waring', Recaptured from the Pirates by the Negro Wm. Tillman."


Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 3 August 1861.
The civilian schooner S.J. Waring was captured by the Confederate privateer Jefferson Davis in the Atlantic off Sandy Hook, New Jersey, on 6 July 1861. On 16 July, William Tilghman, the cook in her original crew, overwhelmed and killed her Confederate prize crew with an ax, recapturing the vessel. He brought her into New York on 22 July 1861.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 59404

"The Attack on the Second Mate."


Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1861, depicting the recapture of the schooner S.J. Waring on 16 July 1861.
S.J. Waring had been captured by the Confederate privateer Jefferson Davis in the Atlantic on 6 July 1861. Ten days later, her African-American cook, William Tilghman, overwhelmed and killed her Confederate prize crew with an ax. He brought her into New York on 22 July 1861.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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