Savannah (Confederate privateer)

Privateer Savannah
The Confederate States privateer Savannah, letter of marque No. 1, captured off Charleston, by the U. S. brig Perry, Lieut. Parrott.”

The Savannah was a fifty-three-ton schooner was converted to an Atlantic Coast privateer after hostilities began in 1861. The ship was lightly armed with a single eighteen-pounder cannon, of War of 1812 vintage, that had been converted into a rifled gun. The privateer Savannah took one merchant ship as a prize of war before being captured by the USS Perry after two weeks of service.

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