Bloomer Sinks, Is Raised, and Is Sold Into Commercial Service
In June 1865 she sank in East Pass, Santa Rosa Island, Florida. After the wreck was raised, it was sold on 22 September 1865 to S. P. Griffin & Co., of Woolsey, Florida. Redocumented as Emma on 5 April 1866, the vessel served a private owner until 1868 when she was sold to a foreign purchaser and disappeared from American shipping records.
The Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies of the Warof the Rebellion (ORN) lists the Bloomer both as a sidewheeler,
and, later as a sternwheeler.
One of the persons from Geneva who assisted in the raid was a
pilot named Jones, who is not otherwise identified; however, records
of the ORN Show that a Thomas G. Jones was, at one time,
in command of the Bloomer, after she was captured—perhaps
in reward for his services.
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