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The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], The long missing Steamship Pacific. (search)
pool to N. York. Ship going down. (Great) confusion on board. Icebergs around us on every side. I know I cannot escape. I write the cause of our loss that friends may not live in suspense. The finder of this will please get it published. Wm. Graham." If we are right in our conjecture, the ship here named is the Pacific, one of the Collins line of steamers, which vessel left Liverpool on January 23, 1856, three days before the Persia, and has not since been heard of; and this slip of paperatives the idea that the person who could exhibit it in a moment of such supreme peril could possibly have mistaken the name of the vessel whose loss he has recorded. Then, again, we find from the records of the lost Pacific, that a person named Graham sailed in her from Liverpool on her ill-fated voyage, and in all human probability was on board at the time she was lost with all hands. This is the strongest point in the entire chain of evidence, for it connects the writer of the memorandum di