Fleetwing (Schooner), lightning, 20 Aug 1878
Description
- Full Text
During the storm at Cleveland Friday night the lightning struck the foretopmast head of the schr. FLEETWING, which was lying at the dock at the foot of First St. It shivered the topmast to pieces, ran down the wire backstay, through the rail, splitting one of her stanchions to the deck. Here its course was lost track of, and no further damage was done. Had it not been for the wire backstay the entire foremast would have been destroyed and perhaps considerable other damage. No one was injured.
Detroit Free Press
August 20, 1878- Media Type
- Text
- Newspaper
- Item Type
- Clippings
- Notes
- Reason: lightning
Lives: nil
Remarks: Repaired
- Date of Original
- 1878
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- McN.W.19607
- 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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