The Schooner York was a Confederate privateer schooner of 72 tons. She was fitted out at Norfolk, VA and commissioned 9 July 1861.
She was chased ashore near New Inlet by the USS Union, (commanded by Commander J.R. Goldsborough). To prevent capture the vessel's guns were thrown overboard by her crew before she was set on fire.
The Confederate privateers were privately owned ships that were authorized by the government of the Confederate States of America to attack the shipping of the United States. Although the appeal was to profit by capturing merchant vessels and seizing their cargoes, the government was most interested in diverting the efforts of the Union Navy away from the blockade of Southern ports, and perhaps to encourage European intervention in the conflict.
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