USS Peri was one of the ships of the Stone Fleet , sunk in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina as a blockade during the American Civil War .
Peri was purchased by the Union Navy at Portland, Maine on 29 November 1861 for the Stone Fleet. Intended to be sunk on 25 January 1862 as an obstruction in Maffit's Channel, Charleston Harbor, a gale on 24 January pushed her out to sea where she drifted for three days.[1]
32°44′42″N 79°49′37″W / 32.745°N 79.827°W / 32.745; -79.827
Shipwrecks
2 Jan: Northern Light
4 Jan: Santi-Pietri
9 Jan: USS Meteor , USS Potomac
20 Jan: USS Margaret Scott
23 Jan: Ocean Chief
24 Jan: USS Peri
25 Jan: USS New England , USS Stephen Young
26 Jan: USS India , USS Timor
7 Feb: CSS Curlew
8 Feb: CSS Sea Bird
10 Feb: CSS Appomattox , CSS Black Warrior , CSS Fanny , CSS Forrest
20 Feb: USS Isaac N. Seymour
25 Feb: USS R. B. Forbes
8 Mar: USS Congress , USS Cumberland
9 Mar: CSS George Page
10 Mar: USS Whitehall
March (unknown date): Camilla (or Memphis )
4 Apr: CSS Red Rover
7 Apr: CSS Grampus
8 Apr: CSS New Orleans
14 Apr: Erebus
19 Apr: USS Maria J. Carlton
24 Apr: CSS General Lovell , CSS Governor Moore , CSS Manassas , CSS Stonewall Jackson , Sweepstakes , USS Varuna
25 Apr: CSS Mississippi , CSRC Pickens , Pioneer , Washington , CSS Pamlico
28 Apr: CSS Louisiana , CSS McRae
April (unknown date): CSS Jackson , CSS Oregon , CSS Carondelet
10 May: USS Cincinnati , CSS Germantown , USS Mound City , CSS Fulton
11 May: CSS Virginia
15 May: CSS Jamestown
May (unknown date): CSS United States
6 Jun: CSS Colonel Lovell , CSS General Beauregard , CSS General Bragg , CSS General M. Jeff Thompson , CSS General Sterling Price , CSS General Sumter , CSS Little Rebel
16 Jun: CSS Maurepas
26 Jun: CSS General Earl Van Dorn , CSS Livingston , CSS General Polk
28 Jun: USS Island Belle
15 Jul: Johanna Wagner , USS Sidney C. Jones
21 Jul: USS Sallie Wood
24 Jul: Lord of the Isles
6 Aug: CSS Arkansas
14-15 Aug: USS Sumter
23 Aug: USS Adirondack
24 Aug: USS Henry Andrew , USS Isaac N. Seymour
10 Sep: USS Tigress
2 Oct: Iona
15 Oct: G. L. Brockenborough
25 Nov: USS Ellis
November (unknown date): USS Mingo
12 Dec: USS Cairo
31 Dec: USS Monitor
Unknown date: USS Noble
Other incidents