S. J. Waring (1853)

The S. J. Waring. Illustration shows the side view of a 2-masted schooner on the water.

The S. J. Waring was captured by the Confederate privateer Jefferson Davis in the Atlantic off Sandy Hook, New Jersey, on 6 July 1861. On 16 July, William Tillman, the cook in her original crew, overwhelmed and killed her Confederate prize crew with an ax, recapturing the vessel. He brought her into New York on 22 July 1861.

She was built in Port Jefferson, Long Island, in 1853.

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