Friday, February 11, 2011

Collision and Shipwreck

DETROIT, May 21. – The schooner Rapid, Capt. Tulack, was sunk and the Captain drowned, by a collision with the schooner Narraganset, off Clay banks, on Tuesday night.  The cargo consisted of 13,000 bushels of wheat, which as probably a total loss.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 24, 1862, p. 3

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