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J. M. Chapman
''J. M. Chapman'', 90 ton schooner, was purchased by in 1863, by Asbury Harpending and other California members of the Knights of the Golden Circle in San Francisco to outfit as a Confederate privateer.〔( DANFS Online; ''Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships'', Page 584, APPENDIX II. ANNEX I, PRIVATEERS COMMISSIONED BY THE CONFEDERATE STATES GOVERNMENT )〕
Harpending's plan to capture Pacific Mail Steamship Company ships along the Pacific coast carrying gold and silver shipments to Panama. He intended to then take what he seized to support the Confederacy. The plan attempt was detected and a boarding party made up of crew from the USS ''Cyane'', revenue officers, and San Francisco police seized ship and crew on the night of their intended departure.〔( California Military Museum; ''The Pacific Squadron of 1861-1866'', The following article is taken from Aurora Hunt's book, ''The Army of the Pacific; Its operations in California, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, plains region, Mexico, etc. 1860-1866'', under the chapter "The Pacific Squadron of 1861-1866", pp.305-310 )〕〔( John Boessenecker, ''Badge and Buckshot: Lawlessness in Old California'', University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. pg. 135-136 )〕
The ship was lost in December 1864 between Shoalwater Bay and San Francisco.〔Gaines, W. Craig (2008) ''Encyclopedia of Civil War shipwrecks''. (LSU Press), p.28.〕
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