The Two-Inch Beam That Stranded a Confederate Ship
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The Two-Inch Beam That Stranded a Confederate Ship
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In August of 2007, four divers working the dark water of North Carolina's Pasquotank River pulled a silver-plated spoon from the silt, engraved with a crew member's name. It had waited there since a February morning in 1862, when a Confederate commander ran his ship for the safety of a canal lock with a Union fleet closing behind him. What single measurement decided whether that ship would reach shelter or burn at the water's edge?
In this episode, we trace CSS Appomattox from her 1850 launch as a Baltimore-to-Philadelphia passenger steamer through her wartime conversions, her role in the fall of Roanoke Island, and her final run up the Pasquotank during the Battle of Elizabeth City, asking how the fixed dimensions of a twelve-year-old commercial hull came to decide the outcome of a naval engagement.
Person: Commander Charles Carroll Simms
Location: Pasquotank River, northeastern North Carolina
Date: February 10, 1862
Case: css appomattox, formerly the passenger steamer empire
Status: burned by her own crew after her beam proved two inches too wide for the dismal swamp canal lock
- Built as Empire by William Cramp at Kensington, Philadelphia, laid down March 1850, launched June 22, completed October 1850, with engines by Reaney, Neafie and Company
- Measured 86 feet in length, 20 feet in beam, drew 7 feet 6 inches, and registered 120 tons burthen
- Armed at the time of the battle with only a single 32-pounder bow gun and a stern howitzer, after four promised rifled guns never arrived
- Scouted Ambrose Burnside's invasion force on February 6, 1862 — 60 transports, 12,000 troops, and 20 warships — before Roanoke Island fell on February 7–8
- The wreck was located after more than a decade of searching, with the identifying spoon recovered in August 2007 and the discovery announced publicly on November 10, 2009
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