So you are telling me that in April of 1861, the Fort needed the Warship Powhatan, the Warship Pocahontas, The Warship Pawnee, The Armed cutter Harriet Lane, A Ocean transport carrying several hundred riflemen and munitions called the “Baltic”, a possibly armed Tug “Yankee”, and another possibly armed Tug “Thomas Freeborn”, and one possibly unarmed tug “Uncle Ben”, to deliver the same “supplies” that were previously manageable by the single ship “Star of the West”?
the tugs were not armed, they were civilian charters. Maybe warships were sent along incase the same thing that happened to “Star of the West” (it was fired on) happened to the resupply ships.
Here is a photo of one of your “supply ships.”
How about a photo of the Baltic, is was a commercial ship, not a ship of the United States Navy.
We've discussed this before. I have found proof that the Thomas Freeborn was definitely armed in the later half of April because they were on a mission in which they used their canon. We know the Yankee had armament later in the war because it too was used, but we don't know when it was armed.
This is why I said "Possibly armed". It might not have been in early April, but it definitely had cannons by a later date.
Maybe warships were sent along incase the same thing that happened to “Star of the West” (it was fired on) happened to the resupply ships.
According to Admiral David Dixon Porter in his memoirs, if those ships had attempted to carry out their mission, every one of them would have been sunk. The Confederates had prepared for them to make an attack, and had held cannon batteries in reserve specifically to deal with these attacking ships. You can read it in the Confederate war correspondence.
Apparently Admiral David Dixon Porter thought these ships were going to engage in a fire fight, but what does he know? He's only a Union Navy Admiral that was right in the middle of the whole thing.
How about a photo of the Baltic, is was a commercial ship, not a ship of the United States Navy.
I wish I had one, but all i've found are drawings. Even so, you put several hundred riflemen on a ship with munitions, it is no longer a commercial ship, it is a military transport ship. It's a "war" ship. A belligerent.
The Queen Mary was a war ship during the war.