Maritime History

Raftsman’s Journal, Clearfield, PA

Sept. 14. — Four vessels had run into the Hatteras Inlet with English colors, under the supposition that that place still belonged to the rebels, the United States flag having been temporarily…

The Evening Star, Washington, DC, September 1, 1924

Survivors of Wrecked Schooner Lived Off Flying Fish — Three Others Lost.

Nashville Union and American, Nashville, TN

Norfolk, July 31. — The privateer Gordon, of Charleston, on Sunday last captured and carried into Hatteras Inlet, the brig McGilley, of Bangor, Maine, with a cargo of Molasses. Also, the…

Sunbury American, Sunbury, PA

The privateer “Jeff Davis,” having captured a schooner hailing from Brooklyn, New York, put her in charge of a prize crew of five men. During the voyage the cook, a colored man, rescued the schooner from her captors by his…

The Daily Dispatch, Richmond, VA

In East Baltimore, on Sunday, great excitement was occasioned in consequence of the hoisting on the mizzen-top mast of the bark Fannie Crenshaw, lying at Chase’s…

Mystery of Lost Cyclops Probably Cleared at Last

Former Navigating Officer of U. S. Collier, Who Went…