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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28., Old ships and Ship-building days of Medford. (search)
ay perish, the rest will continue while there is a chance of success. The Boston Shipping List of September 20, 1862, has the following: Ship Phantom of Boston, Sargent, fm. San Francisco (May 30) for Hong Kong was lost July 13, on Pilot reef, Pratas shoal. The third mate and three seamen have arrived at Hong Kong. A British gunboat had gone to rescue the remainder of the crew. The Phantom was a good 1 1/2 ship of 1174 tons, built at Medford in 1852, and was owned by D. G. and W. B. Bacon of this city. Further accounts state that the Phantom had $500,000 on board. Captain Sargent took the specie in his boat but had not been heard from at last advices. In the shipping news of November 22, 1862, is the following: One of the boats containing the second mate and six men, part of the crew of the ship Phantom, before reported lost, was picked up by pirates about 30 miles S. of Swatow, and taken inland as captives. Some Hong Kong Chinese merchants, hearing of the capture