Tuesday, July 17, 2012

The Vermont Crippled


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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