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At Galveston at the end of the year, he refused to surrender his ship[1] on 1 January 1863 and set fire to her to keep her out of Confederate hands.
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The first Renshaw, a new schooner still unrigged, was captured by a boatcrew from Louisiana in the Tar River some 5 miles above Washington, N.C., 20 May 1862. The members of the expedition named the prize, taken without papers, for Louisiana's commanding officer, Comdr. Richard T. Renshaw. R. T. Renshaw, soon renamed Renshaw so that she might also honor the late Comdr. William B. Renshaw, was placed in service as an ordnance hulk and formally purchased by the Navy from the Boston Prize Court 28 October 1862. She served in the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron through the remainder of the Civil War and was sold at Norfolk 12 August 1865.[2]
Your note has prompted me on this. Checking some genealogical sources, it appears that he died on 1 Jan 1863. Some old biographical indexes show his death year to be 1863. This source clearly states that he died when his ship exploded. Here are some others [3], [http://www.famousamericans.net/williambainbridgerenshaw/], [4].
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