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Melancholy shipwreck. : The following lines were occasioned by the loss of the schooner Charles, Captain Adams, of Portland, who was wrecked on Richmond's Island, near the entrance of Portland harbor, on the night of the 12th of July, 1807, which schooner had on board 22 persons, 16 of whom perished.
Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition 13580. Connect to full text. Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shaw, Thomas, 1753-1838.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 13580.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Charles (Schooner).
- Shipwrecks--Maine--Portland.
- Shipwrecks.
- Shipwrecks--Poetry.
- Maine--Portland.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Broadsides.
- Poems -- 1807.
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (relief cuts) ; 29 x 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Portland, Me.] : [publisher not identified], [1807]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- Verse of 116 lines; first line: Come all kind husbands now behold.
- Another edition, filmed by Readex Microprint Corporation as an additional entry for Shaw & Shoemaker 13580, has Thomas Shaw's name as author.
- Dated: Portland July 14th, 1807.
- Text in three columns separated and surrounded by mourning border; relief cuts of sixteen coffins at head; printed area measures 26.8 x 25.1 cm.
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 13580).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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