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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wrecks. (search)
San Francisco, bound for California with 700 United States troops, founders at sea, and 240 of the soldiers are swept from the deck and perish......Dec. 23-31, 1853 Ship Staffordshire, from Liverpool to Boston, strikes on Blande Rock, south of Seal Island; 178 lives lost......Dec. 30, 1853 Steamer Georgia, from Montgomery, Ala., destroyed by fire at New Orleans; sixty lives lost......Jan. 28, 1854 Ship Powhatan, from Havre to New York, with 311 emigrants, goes ashore in a gale on Long Beach, 7 miles north of Egg Harbor light, and is wrecked; no passengers saved......April 16, 1854 Steamer Arctic, from Liverpool, struck by the Vesta, 40 miles off Cape Race, Newfoundland, in a fog, and sinks; over 350 lives lost......Sept. 27, 1854 Collins line steamer Pacific leaves Liverpool for New York with 240 persons on board and is never heard from......Sept. 23, 1856 French steamer Le Lyonnais sunk off Nantucket by collision with the bark Adriatic; 260 lives lost......Nov. 2,