USS Maria Theresa (1861)

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USS Maria Theresa was a sailing ship of 330 tons.

Purchased on 31 October 1861 by the US Navy at New Bedford, Massachusetts for $4,000 for use as part of the Stone Fleet. Filled with stone, it was intentionally sunk, along with 15 other vessels (in an unsuccessful effort to stop blockade runners from using the main shipping channel into Charleston Harbor) about four miles south-southeast of Fort Sumter and three miles east-southeast of the light on Morris Island, South Carolina.^[1]

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1. ^ Treasures of the Confederate Coast: the "real Rhett Butler" & Other Revelations by Dr. E. Lee Spence, (Narwhal Press, Charleston/Miami, 1995) [ISBN 1886391017] [ISBN 1886391009], p. 146