VESSEL SEEN BY THE QUEEN Wreckage Bears Letters “L. Paint” Not Same as the Well Known Sealing Schooner The Annie E. Paint is Now Safe at Her Wharf, So She Cannot Be the Vessel in Question. No Record of Schooner or Small Craft Bearing the Name of “L. Paint” (Special Dispatch to The Herald.) …
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January 13, 1840, after a weekend of deliberation, Judge Judson ruled that the Amistad captives were “born free” and kidnapped in violation of international law. They had mutinied, he said, out of a “desire of winning their liberty and of returning to their families and kindred.” He ordered that the Amistads be “delivered to President …
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On 12 January 1909 Sybil Marston, the largest steam schooner built on the United States West Coast, struck the rocks near Surf Beach, California and ran aground in a storm. She was carrying 1,100,000 board feet (3,000 m3) of lumber. Two crew members were killed in the disaster. Surf Beach and its adjoining coastal area …
January 11, 1886 – “…..that winter so cold that no one remembered its like before or has acknowledged its equal since. The winter when the Crissie Wright foundered on Shackelford Banks, the crew lashed to the rigging and freezing while men who would rescue them could only signal helplessly from our shore unable to put …
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Castaways Stranded on Tracy Island ADVENTURE OF DR. PHILIPS SAILED UP ALASKAN COAST IN A CATAMARAN Encounters a Storm, Escapes to Short and Is Saved From Starvation by Indian Hunters. SEATTLE, Jan. 9, 1899 — Dr. S. D. Phillips, a young dentist from Buffalo, New York., has just reached this city from Fort …
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