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Awful calamities, or, The shipwrecks of December 1839 being a full account of the dreadful hurricanes of Dec. 15, 21 & 27, on the coast of Massachusetts.
- Title
- Awful calamities, or, The shipwrecks of December 1839 [electronic resource] : being a full account of the dreadful hurricanes of Dec. 15, 21 & 27, on the coast of Massachusetts.
- Publication
- Boston : Press of J. Howe, 1840.
- Supplementary Content
- Full text online available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL
Details
- Description
- 24 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill.; 23 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Shipwrecks of December 1839
- Subject
- Note
- "In which were lost more than 90 vessels and nearly 200 dismasted, driven ashore or otherwise damaged and more than 150 lives destroyed, of which full statistics are given; comprising also a particular relation of the shipwreck of the following vessels: barque Lloyd, brigs Pocahontas, Rideout and J. Palmer, and schs. Deposite, Catharine Nichols and Miller. And also of the dreadful disasters at Gloucester."
- Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.
- Sabin no. 80539.
- Reproduction (note)
- Electronic reproduction.
- OCLC
- TGPSM09-B1510
- Title
- Awful calamities, or, The shipwrecks of December 1839 [electronic resource] : being a full account of the dreadful hurricanes of Dec. 15, 21 & 27, on the coast of Massachusetts.
- Imprint
- Boston : Press of J. Howe, 1840.
- Reproduction
- Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
- Local Note
- Maritime; Antebellum.
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