Blockade Prizes and Bounty Money, 1898

Spanish-American War, 1898. The prize crew going to take possession of the Spanish Colon after she was run aground after the Battle of Santiago, Cuba, July 1898. From Journal of Naval Cadet C.R. Miller, USN. 1898. Description: NH 2201 As the war in the Hormuz and the resulting blockade stretch into their 10th and fifth weeks respectively, and following up to yesterday’s Warship Wednesday on the blockade-enforcing lighthouse tender Mangrove, here is a closer look at the prizes from the Spanish-American War. The first Spanish ships, the steamers Buena Ventura and Pedro, were captured on 22 April 1898 by the battleship USS New York and her accompanying escorts, with the gunboat Nashville claiming the prior. The USS Nashville (Gunboat No. 7) fired the first shots of the war across the bow of the Spanish steamer Buena Ventura, outbound with a cargo of Mississippi pine lumber from Pascagoula to Rotterdam, to bring her to a stop on 22 April 1898, nine miles from Sand Key Light. The capture…