List of American vessels wrecked or afloat at Gibraltar in the gale of the 6th& 7th of December 1825.
ca. 1826. Item #1306 Manuscript in ink. 4to sheet folded. 2 pages. Docketed. 250 x 215 mm., [10 x 8 ¼ inches]. Title as above followed by five columns designating the Vessels Name; Masters’ Name; Where from: Where bound; and (damage to vessel). Forty-one vessels are listed mostly from the American ports of Boston, New York, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Duxbury, Portsmouth, and Baltimore. Other vessels are listed from Havana, Liverpool, Marseilles, and Sicily. Notes following each entry describes the loss each vessel endured because of the storm. For example, the ship Virginia mastered by Mr. Marshall, from New York on its way to Gibraltar, is listed as “Lost with part of her cargo.” This is the same note for the “Susan & Sarah” mastered by Mr. Story out of Salem, and the “Olympia” mastered by Mr. Wilson out of Georgetown on its way home. Some ships lost cables and anchors, cargo and sails. There is a note which reads “From the most authentic sources it is ascertained that 213 sail of vessels, large and small, of all nations, were either totally lost or much damaged. Not a vessel rode out the gale without some injury. Several to the vessels in the forgoing list marked, “afloat” may have arrived after the gales; and there may have been arrivals after the 27th or 28th Decr. not involved in it.” Although anonymous, this report appears to be written by an American merchant ship that arrived in Gibraltar in late December.
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