Wednesday, June 29, 2011

The U. S. Frigate Richmond Ashore

NEW BEDFORD, March 5.

Capt. Springler, of the U. S. schooner Guthrie, reports that he left Key West 22d Feb.

U. S. frigate Richmond went ashore on the 21st of Feb., in the night, on American Shoals, Florida Reef, 15 miles west of Key West, and still remained there on the 22nd.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, March 6, 1862, p. 1

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