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 …
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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