Awful calamities, or, The shipwrecks of December 1839 : being a full account of the dreadful hurricanes of Dec. 15, 21 & 27, on the coast of Massachusetts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Press of J. Howe, author, issuing body.

Series:

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shipwrecks--Massachusetts.

Shipwrecks.

Hurricanes--Massachusetts.

Hurricanes.

Steamboat disasters--Long Island Sound (N.Y. and Conn.).

Steamboat disasters.

Lexington (Steamer).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (24 p., [2] leaves of plates ) ill. ;

Other Title:

Awful calamities, or, The shipwrecks of December 1839

Place of Publication:

Boston : Press of J. Howe, 1840.

Notes:

"In which were lost more than 90 vessels and nearly 200 dismasted, driven ashore or otherwise damaged and more than 150 lives destroyed, of which full statistics are given; comprising also a particular relation of the shipwreck of the following vessels: barque Lloyd, brigs Pocahontas, Rideout and J. Palmer, and schs. Deposite, Catharine Nichols and Miller. And also of the dreadful disasters at Gloucester."

Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.

Sabin no. 80539.

OCLC:

9