Confederate Shipwreck Artifact – Tailors Sewing Pin

Confederate Shipwreck Artifact – Tailors Sewing Pin

• Confederate Shipwreck Artifact
• Tailors Sewing Pin
• Notes: British-made sewing pins were essential civilian and military goods that were run through the Union Blockade at great risk to ship and crew.
• HMS Shannon enforcing International Law between the Union gunboat Tuscarora and the Confederate blockade-runner Thomas L. Wragg in Southampton Water, 1862

Salvaged from the wreck of the CSS Nashville Confederate Navy Warship, Blockade Runner and Privateer destroyed by enemy fire, 28 February 1863 near the Georgia Coast.

CSS Nashville was a brig-rigged, side-paddle-wheel passenger steamer that served with the Confederate Navy during the Civil War.