Tag: side-wheeler Savannah

Formerly the blockade-runner CSS Hope. Captured October 22, 1864, sent to a prize court. Photographed at City Point, Virginia, 1865.

Gibson and Gibson, Dictionary of Transports and Combatant Vessels Steam and Sail Employed by the Union Army, 1861-1868 says: SAVANNAH; sidewheel steamer; 1818 tons. Formerly Confederate blockade runner HOPE. Chartered Mar 17-Sept 4, 1865.