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August 24, 2007
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Friday August 24, 2007
More About The Wreck of the Steamer Plymouth Rock in Pelham Waters in
1856
Yesterday I published to the Historic Pelham Blog an item about the wreck
of the steamer Plymouth Rock during a snow storm in early 1856.
See Thursday, August 23, 2007:
The Wreck of the Steamer Plymouth Rock in Pelham Waters in 1856.
Additional information about the wreck appeared in the New York Daily
Times a week later, on January 9, 1856. The brief article is
transcribed below.
"The Plymouth Rock.
The report that this vessel, which went ashore some days since at City
Island, went to pieces last Saturday night during the storm, is untrue.
Instead of proving a detriment to the vessel, the storm very materially
bettered her position. She was blown thirty feet farther on the shore from
where she previously lay, and forty feet farther astern, so that at
present at high tide only a few feet of her hull is submerged. She lays
level and perfectly easy, and by aid of ways which it is proposed to place
under her at once, it is thought her safe removal can be effected within
two or three days. Meanwhile some twenty of the officers and crew still
remain on board. There were nearly fifty on board of her Saturday night
during the storm. Yesterday as the Worcester, attached to the
same line, passed by, the force on board gave indication by ringing the
bell and waving of handkerchiefs, of having a very jolly time of it."
Source: The Plymouth Rock, N.Y. Daily Times, Jan. 9, 1856, p. 8, col. 1.
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