USS Annie captures British schooner off Florida coast

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07 Nov 1863

The USS Annie captured the British schooner Paul in the Florida Straits on this date. The Annie was a captured Confederate blockade runner pressed into Union Naval service. During her service in the Union Navy she captured five vessels trying to break through the blockade set up around Florida. She sank on her way from Key West to Charlotte Harbor, apparently from an explosion. 

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Relevant Year: 

1863

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11

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07