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Potomac II

(Ship: t. 356; dr. 14')

The second Potomac was an old whaler purchased 1 November 1861 at Nantucket, R.I. to be used as a part of the "Stone Fleet", a group of ships used to block the entrances to Confederate harbors. She was sunk for this purpose 9 January.

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