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Tuesday, 22 November 2011

American blockade runner Presto in 1864

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With a tonnage of 164 tons. When she stranded near the Battery Ruttledge on Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina, the monitors USS Leligh, Passaic, Catsikill and Nahant used her as a target for gun exercises during two days. Her wreck still exist today. For more details see the interesting site http://www.searesearchsociety.com/2010/08/shipwreck-1864-presto/