HOW THE LATE STORM DEALT WITH THE SHIPS Rush for Coal From Belated Colliers. SAUSALITO YACHTS SUFFERED STRIKE OF LONGSHOREMEN ON THE WRECKED NOYO. Arrival of the British Ship Wallacetown — She Was Compelled to Put Into Coqulmbo in Distress. January 19, 1899 – The storm is over, but tales from vessels that suffered …
British Captain James Cook arrived in the Hawaiian Islands on his third voyage to the Pacific. Commanding the Resolution and Discovery on a mission to explore a Northwest Passage and to plot the transit of Venus, Cook first sighted the islands of O’ahu, then Kaua’i and Ni’ihau on January 18, 1778. Greeted as a sacred …
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JAPANESE SAILORS RESCUED They Had Drifted About tor Many Days in Heavy Seas SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 17, 1901 — The steamer Hong Kong Maru arrived here today from the Orient with a shipwrecked crew of Japanese aboard. On January 2, one day out from Yokohama, the vessel sighted a ship dismantled, flying signals of …
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The Union Attack on Cedar Key – Cedar Key, Florida January 16, 1862 (10 o’clock on the morning) – The Union Navy’s U.S.S. Hatteras attacked Cedar Key initiating one of the first significant incidents of the Civil War in Florida. It also marked the end of the Confederacy’s use of the island port as a …
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April 15, 1848 – “One hundred dollars.” (today’s equivalent of a half years pay), is what Daniel Bell, a free African American blacksmith living and working at the Navy Yard in the District of Columbia, was told he needed for his family in 1848. Eleven members of his family, including his wife, children and grandchildren …