The Archive · 1898

AMERICAN PRIZES

Daring the first eight days of the war the United States ships have taken thirteen prizes. The list is given below rena Ventura, of the Larinaga Line, hailing from Bilboa, Spain, captured on the 22nd April, when on the way to Pensacola, Fla., by the Nashville. Carried a cargo of lumber.

Pedro, of Bilboa, Spain, a freighter, captured off the coast of Florida on the 22nd April by the cruiser New Yorl:.

Mathilde, loaded with a cargo of rum, captured off Havana on April 23rd by the Sierra Morena, " two-masted schooner bound for Havana with a mixed cargo, captured by the Porter on April 23rd.

Catalina, a_steel_steamer of 5,291 tonnage, bound from New Orleans to Barcelena, Spain, with a cargo of 3,100 bales of cotton and 6,000 bundles of barrel staves. Captured on April 24th when off the coast of Cuba by the Detroit.

Miguel Jove=, of the Pennillo Line, from New Orleans to Barcelona, Spain, bound for the latter place with a cargo of cotton and staves. The steamer and cargo are valued at $400,000, and she was captured by the gunboat Helena off the coast of Key West on April 24th.

Saturnina, of Bilbao, Spain, captured off Ship Island, Miss., on April 24th by the revenue cutter WVinona.

Candidia, a two-masted schooner, with a cargo of charcoal, captured on April 24th by the gunboat [Wilmington joni; a_sinall schooner captured on April 24th' off Key West by the turpedoboat Porter.

Panama, a Transatlantic steamer and an auxiliary cruiser of the Spanish navy, cargo, captured; when? om ithe way from New York to Havana on April 26th by the lighthouse tender BZangrove.

Ambrosio Bohea, carrying $70,000 in silver and 300 casks of wine from Costa Rica to Havana, captured on April 27th off the coast near Cardenas by the monitor Terror.

Guido, a steamer hailing from Bilboa, Spain, captured on the 27th of April off the coast near Cardenas by the monitor Terror. Bound from Corunna to Havana with a cargo of provisions and money. Steamer and cargo valued at $400,000.

Engracia, a sloop, captured on the 29th of April near Cabanas by the Newport.—Kobe Chronicle.

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