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The Daily Dispatch: may 29, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 13 (search)
Capture of the British steamer Stettin The British steamer Stettin, from Plymouth, England, via Nassau, and bound for this port, was captured shortly after daylight on Saturday last, off Cape Romain. The Stettin was lying off Romain the whole of the preceding night, her captain thinking that he was off the Charleston bar. Before break of day on Saturday, a sailing vessel fired into them, and the report soon drew the steamers to the locality. Our informant--Mr. Frederick J. Hillton, an Englishman, but for some years a resident of Mobile — seeing that escape from the blockaders was impossible, in company with the pilot, Mr. Henry A. Mullings, Mr. T. Grisson, of Wilmington, and a Capt. Smith, lowered one of the life boats and made towards the shore. They landed on Mr. Blake's plantation, on the South Santee, but before they had landed their steamer had fallen a prize to the Yankees. The Stettin was laden with powder, saltpetre, lead, iron, tea, coffee, and other valuable articl