The whaling disaster of 1871 was an incident off the northern Alaskan coast in which a fleet of 33 American whaling ships were trapped in the Arctic ice...
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of over 700 vessels was registered at the Port of New Bedford, which played a prominent role in Herman Melville's Moby Dick. In the whaling disaster of...
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list of shipwrecks in September 1871 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during September 1871. In the whaling disaster of 1871, 32...
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New Bedford, Massachusetts (redirect from Our Lady of Mount Carmel School (New Bedford, Massachusetts))
Another blow came with the whaling disaster of 1871, in which 22 New Bedford whalers were lost in the ice off the coast of Alaska. The New Bedford firm...
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Thirty-three of the 40 whalers that comprised the Arctic fleet were lost near Point Belcher and Wainwright Inlet in the whaling disaster of 1871, while another...
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injures 135. September Whaling disaster of 1871: 1,219 people abandon 33 whaling ships caught in the ice pack off the northern coast of Alaska. Seawanhaka...
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the French Republic. September 2 – Whaling disaster of 1871: The Comet, a brig used by whalers, becomes the first of 33 ships to be crushed in the Arctic...
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"Latest Shipping Intelligence". Daily News. No. 7947. London. 18 October 1871. "Disasters at Sea". The Times. No. 27558. London. 12 December 1872. col B, p. 7...
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Lagoda (category Whaling ships)
the wind. The Lagoda was one of the few ships to escape the whaling disaster of 1871, an incident in which 40 ships whaling in the Arctic late in the season...
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Ben Pease (category History of Oceania)
A. Pease Jr., (1824–1892), who became a whaling ship master and was involved in the whaling disaster of 1871 and was later the U. S. Consul to Santiago...
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history of whaling from prehistoric times up to the commencement of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) moratorium on commercial whaling in 1986...
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houses New Bedford Fire Museum. 1871 St. John the Baptist Church founded. Whaling disaster of 1871 1877 - Church of the Sacred Heart built. 1884 - St...
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SS Octa (category Maritime incidents in May 1871)
steamship. The ship had a tonnage of 569 gross register tons (GRT). It was owned by Norwood C. M. & Co. in Hull. On 1 May 1871 the ship was driven ashore and...
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Kanrin Maru (category Maritime incidents in 1871)
development of the northern island of Hokkaido. She was lost there in a typhoon in 1871, at Esashi. In 1960, the city of Osaka presented the city of San Francisco...
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HMS Agincourt (1865) (category Maritime incidents in July 1871)
The Times. No. 27106. London. 4 July 1871. col D, p. 11. Penrose-Fitzgerald, pp. 300–02, 305–06 "Naval Disasters Since 1860". Hampshire Telegraph. No...
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HMS Megaera (1849) (category Maritime incidents in June 1871)
small detachment of 21 Royal Artillery Soldiers from the Island of St Vincent on 10 May 1853 landing them at Barbados 2 days later. In 1871, Megaera was assigned...
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HMS Clio (1858) (category Maritime incidents in 1871)
Under the command of Commodore Frederick Stirling, she became the flagship of the Australia Station on 3 September 1870. In 1871, she was holed after...
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Red Jacket (clipper) (category Maritime incidents in May 1871)
No. 7271. Liverpool. 13 May 1871. Clark, A H (1912), "Fate of the Clipper Ships", The clipper ship era; An epitome of famous American and British clipper...
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French aviso Bouvet (1865) (category Maritime incidents in September 1871)
waters and avoid capture. Bouvet was wrecked on 17 September 1871 off Île-à-Vache, when a gust of wind sent her onto a reef. The crew managed to safely abandon...
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HMS Valorous (1851) (category Maritime incidents in January 1871)
she was paid off in September 1867 she operated off the Cape of Good Hope. On 10 January 1871, she was driven from her moorings and ran aground at Plymouth...
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SS Weser (1867) (category Maritime incidents in August 1871)
No. 14672. London. 10 August 1871. p. 7. Bonsor, N.R.P. North Atlantic Seaway (Vol. 2) Smith, Eugene W. Passenger Ships of the World Past & Present Hansen...
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USS Chattanooga (1864) (category Maritime incidents in December 1871)
December 1871 she was holed and sunk at her dock by floating ice. The hulk was sold in January 1872. American Civil War portal List of steam frigates of the...
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HMS Repulse (1868) (category Maritime incidents in August 1871)
for two years as guardship.[citation needed] On 29 August 1871, she ran aground off the Isle of Sheppey, Kent. She was refloated, and was taken in to Sheerness...
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Overland Relief Expedition (category Whaling in the United States)
of a Mission, a Marriage, a Murder, and the Remarkable Reindeer Rescue of 1898. New York: PublicAffairs. ISBN 978-1-58648-221-3. Whaling disaster of 1871...
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Golden Fleece (clipper) (category Maritime incidents in July 1871)
1871. She left New York bound for Bombay with a load of ice on July 1, 1871, under Captain Bray. Three days out, a fire was spotted at the bottom of the...
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HMS Hyacinth (1829) (category Maritime incidents in October 1871)
was broken up in 1871. Hyacinth was the second of four Favorite-class ship sloops, which were a ship-rigged and lengthened version of the 1796 Cruizer-class...
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Sam Cearns (category Maritime incidents in June 1871)
carrier, built in 1864. In 1871 she was wrecked near Tierra del Fuego after the crew members gallantly saved the crew of another windjammer Knight Errant...
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Kingfisher (clipper) (category Maritime incidents in June 1871)
in distress. Was surveyed, condemned, and, in November 1871, was sold to the Ciblis family of that city. She was repaired, renamed Jaime Ciblis and sailed...
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USS Genesee (1862) (category Maritime incidents in November 1871)
the Washington Territory 20 nautical miles (37 km) south of Cape Flattery on 20 November 1871. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from San Francisco...
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HMS Caledonia (1862) (category Maritime incidents in July 1871)
Ashore". Birmingham Daily Post. No. 4057. Birmingham. 19 July 1871. "Shipping Disasters". Liverpool Mercury. No. 7928. Liverpool. 18 June 1873. Ballard...
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