BOSTON, March 11. – The J. W. Chapman arrived from New York
last night and reports that on the 2nd inst. she fell in with the frigate
Vermont. She lay by her till 6 P. M. and
left her in latitude 39.45, longitude 68.8, drifting southward, her rudder,
sails and anchor gone and entirely helpless.
She wanted powerful tugs at once.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 15, 1862, p. 4
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