This steamer was built abroad in 1863 for the Confederate Government.
At daybreak on the morning of the 7th of January, 1864, the cruiser
_Montgomery_ saw the _Dare_ with Confederate colors flying near
Lockwood's Folly, heading for Cape Fear. The _Montgomery_ and her
consort the _Aries_ gave chase, the latter heading off the _Dare_,
which endeavored to escape, but being in range of the guns of both
pursuers for about four hours, she headed for the beach, and was
stranded at 12.30 p.m. a little to the northward of North Inlet, near
Georgetown, S.C. The weather was very stormy and the surf very high so
that one of the Federal boats, in attempting to board the _Dare_, was
capsized and her crew made prisoners by the Confederates behind the
sand dunes. Other Federal boats reached the stranded vessel and set her
on fire.
The officers and crew of the _Dare_ escaped to the shore.