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| | Princess Royal |
 | | The British-built blockade runner Princess Royal, an iron-hulled screw steamer laden with rifled guns, small arms, ammunition, and two powerful steam engines intended for ironclads, was captured off Charleston, S.C., 29 January 1863, by the screw gunboat Unadilla, assisted by screw sloop Housatonic, side-wheel steamer Augusta, and schooners America and Blunt. |
 | | Purchased by the Navy Department from the Philadelphia Prize Court 18 March 1863; Princess Royal, retaining her original name, was fitted out as a cruiser; and was commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 29 May 1863, Comdr. |
 | | On 7 February 1865, Princess Royal captured her last prize, the cotton-laden schooner Anna Sophia, in Galveston Bay, and on 10 February a boat expedition from that ship and screw steamer Antona destroyed the wreck of the grounded blockade runner Will-o 'the-wisp. |
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