CSS Sumter is sold at Gibraltar and turns blockade runner
December 19, 1862, Gibraltar, Gibraltar.
- Date
- December 19, 1862
- Where
- Gibraltar, Gibraltar
- What happened
- Other
- Event
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Unable to buy coal or make full repairs, CSS Sumter lay at Gibraltar from early 1862 under watch by Union warships. She was disarmed and sold at auction on December 19, 1862, to the Liverpool office of Fraser, Trenholm and Company. Renamed Gibraltar, she ran the blockade and reached Wilmington at least once.