The wreck of The Bohemian, Montreal Ocean Company's steam-packet, off the coast of Maine, 1864. Engraving from a sketch by Mr. Bateman Smith, one of the cabin passengers '...of that vessel upon the rocks near Portland she got steamer, carrying nineteen cabin passengers and 199 steerage, besides the mails and just rounding Cape she struck upon a ledge called St. Alden's night was appears that the master, Captain Borland, had misjudged the distance of the lights visible on Cape Elizabeth. The vessel, larg
The wreck of The Bohemian, Montreal Ocean Company's steam-packet, off the coast of Maine, 1864. Engraving from a sketch by Mr. Bateman Smith, one of the cabin passengers '...of that vessel upon the rocks near Portland she got steamer, carrying nineteen cabin passengers and 199 steerage, besides the mails and just rounding Cape she struck upon a ledge called St. Alden's night was appears that the master, Captain Borland, had misjudged the distance of the lights visible on Cape Elizabeth. The vessel, large hole in her bottom, and began to fill sunk in four fathoms of water, in an almost upright of the passengers, however, had already left the ship, the first boat taking eighty of them in one trip and seventy in the next trip all safe to land. The second boat was, unfortunately, swamped, and nineteen or twenty lives were thus lost, all Irish steerage passengers, including five or six women and one or two citizens of much commended for their humane efforts to relieve and provide for the destitute passengers and to help them to their destinations'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.
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