Mayflower (Scow), sunk, 21 May 1857
- Full Text
Scow MAYFLOWER, sunk at Cleveland. Property loss $200.
Buffalo Commercial Advertiser
January 28, 1858 (1857 casualty list)
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Scow MAYFLOWER, sank at Cleveland - ran into Tug NORTON. Property loss $200.
Chicago Daily Press
Casualty List for 1857
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SCOW SUNK BY TUG. - The scow MAYFLOWER, loaded with wood, while lying just just above the Cuyahoga Steam Furnace, was run into last evening, about 7 o'clock, by a mud scow in tow of the steam tug T.G. NOTTER. The collision was so violent as to sink the scow MAYFLOWER immediately. There were five persons aboard, and one, a female,
had just time to escape with her life, only four minutes elapsing after the collision before the scow went down. - Cleveland Plaindealer, 22.
Buffalo Daily Republic
Saturday, May 23, 1857
- Media Type
- Text
- Newspaper
- Item Type
- Clippings
- Notes
- Reason: sunk
Lives: nil
Freight: wood
- Date of Original
- 1857
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- McN.W.3058
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ohio, United States
Latitude: 41.4995 Longitude: -81.69541
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- Donor
- William R. McNeil
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