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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1868

3 stories in New England's papers

The General Grant Shipwreck

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Saturday 1 February 1868 · page 3

ANOTHER romance comes to us like a waif from the sea. It will be remembered that early in May, 1860, a fine American ship, on her first voyage, named the General Grant, left Melbourne for London, with a…

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Miscellaneous Extracts. Frightful Explosion of an American Steamer. Eighty-three Persons Supposed to Be Lost

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Saturday 18 July 1868 · page 4

ABOUT noon yesterday the fine sidewheel mail steamer Magnolia left her whar, at the foot of Walnut-street, for Maysville. Her freight bills were heavy, and her passenger…

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Fearful Burning of a Steamer on Lake Michigan

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Saturday 25 July 1868 · page 4

The steamboat Sea Bird, which left Milwaukee on Wednesday night, the 8th April, was burned to the water's edge on the morning of the 9th, when off Waukegan. About…

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