USS William Lee (1836) - List of Ships in The Second Fleet

List of Ships in The Second Fleet

  • America (ship) 418 tons
  • Dove (bark) 151 tons
  • Edward (bark) 274 tons
  • Emerald (ship) 518 tons
  • India, (ship, 366 tons) was purchased at New Bedford, Massachusetts, on 14 November 1861, and sunk in the Maffitt's Channel approach to Charleston on 26 January 1862.
  • Jubilee (bark) 233 tons
  • Majestic (bark) 297 tons
  • Marcia (bark) 356 tons
  • Margaret Scott (bark) 330 tons This ship was bought from the US Marshall in New Bedford, after it had been confiscated as a slave ship. She was sunk 20 January 1862 in Maffitt's Channel in Charleston harbor. A woman named Margaret Scott had been executed in 1692 as one of the Salem Witches.
  • Mechanic (ship) 335 tons
  • Messenger (bark) 216 tons
  • Montezuma (ship) 424 tons
  • Newburyport (ship) 341 tons
  • New England (ship) 368 tons
  • Noble (bark) 274 tons
  • Peri (bark) 261 tons, missing off Charleston, SC, 25 January 1862.
  • Stephen Young (brig) 200 tons
  • Timor (ship)
  • Valparaiso (ship) 402 tons
  • William Lee was a bark of 311 tons, built as a whaler in 1836. Mentioned in Melville's poem as the Lee.

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