{"id":107314,"date":"2021-05-25T01:00:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T06:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=107314"},"modified":"2021-05-24T02:24:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T07:24:39","slug":"proposal-to-make-a-privateer-out-of-a-steam-tug-and-request-for-letters-of-marque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/proposal-to-make-a-privateer-out-of-a-steam-tug-and-request-for-letters-of-marque\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposal to make a privateer out of a steam tug and request for letters of marque"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps; font-size: large;\">Mobile<\/span>, <em>May 25, 1861.<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The undersigned proposes to fit the steam tug <em>A. C. Gunnison<\/em> as a privateersman. She is about 70 feet long, 15 feet beam, 7 foot hold, has two 16-inch cylinders, working up to about 75 or 80 horsepower. Her registered tonnage is 54 tons. She is owned as follows: J. M. Hollingsworth, one-third; J. M. Brainard, one-sixth; P. O. Foster, one-sixth; R. A. Hiern, one-sixth; and Boyd &amp; Merchant one-sixth. We propose to carry when cruising 10 to 15 men, armed with muskets and revolvers, and one or two pieces of a cannon; say 6 or 8 pounders. I therefore solicit letters of marque. All residents of the city and county of Mobile.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Respectfully, your obedient servant,<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"padding-right: 40px;\">J. M. <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps; font-size: large;\">Hollingsworth<\/span>.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>Hon. T. <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps; font-size: large;\">Sanford,<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Collector of Port of Mobile.<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile, May 25, 1861. The undersigned proposes to fit the steam tug A. C. Gunnison as a privateersman. She is about 70 feet long, 15 feet beam, 7 foot hold, has two 16-inch cylinders, working up to about 75 or 80 horsepower. Her registered tonnage is 54 tons. She is owned as follows: J. M. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":107315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-107314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news-of-the-day"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/steam-tug.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}