USS Peri was one of the ships of the Stone Fleet, sunk in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina as a blockade during the American Civil War.
Peri was purchased by the Union Navy at Portland, Maine on 29 November 1861 for the Stone Fleet. Intended to be sunk on 25 January 1862 as an obstruction in Maffit's Channel, Charleston Harbor, a gale on 24 January pushed her out to sea where she drifted for three days.[1]
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Coordinates: 32°44′42″N 79°49′37″W / 32.745°N 79.827°W / 32.745; -79.827
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Shipwrecks |
- 2 Jan: Northern Light
- 4 Jan: Santi-Pietri
- 9 Jan: USS Meteor, USS Potomac
- 20 Jan: USS Margaret Scott
- 23 Jan: Ocean Chief
- 24 Jan: USS Peri
- 25 Jan: USS New England, USS Stephen Young
- 26 Jan: USS India, USS Timor
- 7 Feb: CSS Curlew
- 8 Feb: CSS Sea Bird
- 10 Feb: CSS Appomattox, CSS Fanny, CSS Forrest
- 20 Feb: USS Isaac N. Seymour
- 25 Feb: USS R. B. Forbes
- 8 Mar: USS Congress, USS Cumberland
- 9 Mar: CSS George Page
- 10 Mar: USS Whitehall
- March (unknown date): Camilla (or Memphis)
- 7 Apr: CSS Grampus, CSS New Orleans
- 14 Apr: Erebus
- 19 Apr: USS Maria J. Carlton
- 24 Apr: CSS General Lovell, CSS Governor Moore, CSS Manassas, Sweepstakes, USS Varuna
- 25 Apr: CSS Mississippi, Pioneer, Washington
- 28 Apr: CSS Louisiana, CSS McRae
- April (unknown date): CSS Jackson
- 10 May: USS Cincinnati, CSS Germantown, USS Mound City, CSS Fulton
- 11 May: CSS Virginia
- 15 May: CSS Jamestown
- May (unknown date): CSS United States
- 6 Jun: CSS Colonel Lovell, CSS General Beauregard, CSS General Bragg, CSS General M. Jeff Thompson, CSS General Sterling Price, CSS General Sumter, CSS Little Rebel
- 26 Jun: CSS General Earl Van Dorn
- 28 Jun: USS Island Belle
- 15 Jul: Johanna Wagner, USS Sidney C. Jones
- 24 Jul: Lord of the Isles
- 6 Aug: CSS Arkansas
- 14-15 Aug: USS Sumter
- 23 Aug: USS Adirondack
- 24 Aug: USS Henry Andrew, USS Isaac N. Seymour
- 10 Sep: USS Tigress
- 15 Oct: G. L. Brockenborough
- 25 Nov: USS Ellis
- November (unknown date): USS Mingo
- 12 Dec: USS Cairo
- 31 Dec: USS Monitor
- Unknown date: USS Noble
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