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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
rs the antarctic continent, 66° 20′ S. lat., 154° 18′ E. long......Jan. 19, 1840 [He coasted westward along this land 70 degrees.] Washingtonian Temperance Society founded in Baltimore......1840 Democratic National Convention at Baltimore, Md. Martin Van Buren nominated for President, leaving the States to nominate for Vice-President......May 5, 1840 Sub-treasury or independent treasury bill passed and approved......July 4, 1840 Britannia, the first regular steampacket of the Cunard line, arrives at Boston, fourteen days and eight hours from Liverpool......July 19, 1840 First session adjourns......July 21, 1840 Log-cabin and Hard-cider campaign, in the interest of William Henry Harrison, begins......July, 1840 [Modern methods of conducting a Presidential campaign were now introduced.] Steamship Arcadia arrives at Boston from Liverpool in twelve days and twelve hours, the shortest passage up to that time......Oct. 17, 1840 Alexander McLeod arrested in the <
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wrecks. (search)
19, 1882 Six American schooners founder off St. George's bank; seventy-six lives lost......November, 1883 American steamship City of Columbus wrecked on Devil's Bridge, off Gay Head light, Mass.; ninety-nine lives lost......Jan. 18, 1884 Belgian White Cross line steamship Daniel Steinman struck on rock off Sambro Head, N. S.; 131 lives lost......April 3, 1884 Three American schooners lost at sea between Gloucester and St. George's Bank; forty-two lives lost......Dec. 26, 1885 Cunard steamer Oregon, from Liverpool to New York, run into by an unknown schooner, 18 miles east of Long Island; all the passengers (631) and crew (205) taken off in safety, the ship sinking eight hours afterwards......March 14, 1886 Three Atlantic steamers stranded in one day: the Persian Monarch on the Portland breakwater, the Cunard steamer Pavonia on High Pine Ledge, Massachusetts Bay, and the Beaver line steamer Lake Huron on Madame Island, 7 miles below Quebec; each owing to heavy fog...
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
ional Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, 674 feet long, 77 feet broad, 22,500 tons; the City of Pekin, belong ing to the Pacific Mail Steam-ship Company, 6,000 tons, 423 feet long, 48 feet broad; the Liguria, of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company, 4,820 tons, 460 feet long, 45 feet broad; the Britannic, of the White Star Line, 4,700 tons, 455 feet long, 45 feet broad; the City of Richmond, of the Inman Line, 4,600 tons, 453 1/2 feet long, 43 feet broad; and the Bothnia, of the Cunard Line, 4,500 tons, 425 feet long, 42 1/2 feet broad. See ship, Fig. 5001, page 2154. Taking the largest of these, we may give the details. particulars of the great Eastern steam-ship. Material. Iron. Builders. J. Scott Russell & Co. Gross tonnage22,500 tons. Nominal horse-power, total2,600 H. P. Length between perpendiculars680 feet. Length on deck691 feet. Breadth, extreme83 feet. Depth of side58 feet. Estimated draft, light20 feet. Estimated draft, laden30 feet. Screw e
The Daily Dispatch: March 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Four days later from Europe.arrival of the Prince Albert, St. Jones, N. F., March 9. --The Galway Company's steamship, Prince Albert, which left Galway on the evening of Tuesday, Feb. 26th, arrived at this port en route to N. York, at 8 o'clock this morning. The Prince Albert's dates are four days later than those received per steamship North Briton at Portland. The Cunard steamship, Arabia, from New York, arrived at Queenstown on Saturday evening, February 23d. The steamship Niagara sailed from Queenstown on Sunday afternoon, Feb. 14th, at 4 o'clock, for Halifax and Boston. Political news unimportant. The Prince Albert brings no news of the Australasian. Commercial intelligence. Liverpool, February 26th,P. M. --Cotton.--The sales to-day have been 8,000 bales, including 2,000 to speculators and exporters. Messrs. Hewitt & Co. report an advance of ½@3-16 of a penny per cent. since Friday last, the market closing firm at the advance.
The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], Portsmouth,Va May 11, 1861 (search)
he insurrection. The New York Herald of Saturday says: There is no truth in the report published that the Kedar was to sail immediately with provisions and troops for the Government, and "that three or four of the fine steamers of the Cunard line will be chartered, and remain in the service during the entire war." The charter of the Kedar is terminated, and the owners of the Cunard line have never been applied to, nor thought of chartering, any of the ships of their line. The BCunard line have never been applied to, nor thought of chartering, any of the ships of their line. The Black Republican papers are somewhat exercised about the position of Kentucky.--The Philadelphia Inquirer says: Kentucky must prove herself to be for the Union or against it. Her neutrality is treason, and her inaction war. Hence, if she persists in remaining in her present position, she must, perforce, be ranked and treated as among the enemies of the country. Voting for Union candidates to a Border State Conference, even by tremendous majorities, will not do. Besides, there are no border
The Daily Dispatch: may 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 25 (search)
kes of this place have gone to the war. They are so affectionate that they can not leave their sisters and mothers" Two thousand troops have been sworn in the service of the United State in Western Virginia. Two regiments in Ohio are ready to cross the river at a moment's notice to defend Wheeling. On authority of Thurlow Weed, it is said that President Lincoln has resolved to bestow an important military position — probably that of Commissionary General — upon Gov. Banks. The Cunard steamship Africa, unloading at the wharf Jersey City, has on board 10,000 Enfield rifles for the United States Government. An order for the release of Mr. Joseph H. Spencer, of Baltimore, who has been held in confinement at Annapolis for a week past, was issued on Wednesday. A barn belonging to Mr. Wm. Evans, eight miles north of Danville, Va., was struck by lightning on the night of the 12th inst., and entirely consumed. Wm. H. Nowlan has been arrested in Petersburg for swin
The Daily Dispatch: July 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 23 (search)
asure of all governments in the immediate vicinity of hostilities. The step indicated no distrust of faith in the Northern States, and no want of confidence in the Canadians. The London Times says that the sending of reinforcements to Canada was right and proper, because they can only be sent there in the summer season. The loss by the conflagration in London was over two millions sterling. Some of the estimates are as high as three or four millions.--Nearly all insured. The Cunard steamer Scotia had been successfully launched. Lord Chancellor Campbell had died very suddenly, having ruptured a blood vessel. Sir R. Bethel has been confirmed as Lord Chancellor of England. The Times continues to maintain that the Americans have no ground for their abuse of England beyond mortification at England's lack of appreciation. It says the Northerners have thrown themselves into a passion and must be left to recover. Sir Archibald Alison, in a letter to Cassiu
The Daily Dispatch: August 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Sad affair. (search)
The Cunard steamers. --The Cunard company are at present engaged in reorganizing the steam felt by the sale of some of their steam vessels and the construction of more powerful one, furnished with all the modern improvements, A short, time since the Etna was sold to the Inman Company, and more recently the Jura to the Montreal Ocean Steamship Company for the Canadian mail service. In the course of two or three months the Cunard Company will have two new steamers completed. Cue is the SeaCunard company are at present engaged in reorganizing the steam felt by the sale of some of their steam vessels and the construction of more powerful one, furnished with all the modern improvements, A short, time since the Etna was sold to the Inman Company, and more recently the Jura to the Montreal Ocean Steamship Company for the Canadian mail service. In the course of two or three months the Cunard Company will have two new steamers completed. Cue is the Seatia, whose launch the bark recorded, a .......the mail service between Liverpool and New York.
The Daily Dispatch: September 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], The John Adams Homeward bound. (search)
Foreign Details by the Africa. Awful Calamity in Turin — Destructive Fire in Lenden — Public Anxiety with regard to the Cotton Supply in England, &c., &c The Cunard Steamship Africa, Capt. Shannon, which sailed from Liverpool at 3 o'clock on the afternoon of the 31st ult., and from Queenstown on the 1st inst., arrived at New York at 10 o'clock on the night of the 12th inst., bringing passengers and the European mails dated on the 31st of August. Dreadful Calamity in Turin. A letter from Turin, of the 28th of August says: A very awful calamity has befallen Turin this morning. A fire broke out in the Via diPo, which resisted for a few hours the efforts of the fire brigade, aided by the regular troops. These latter were carried away by their zeal for the public cause, and ventured into the burning buildings with a rash courage, to which about a dozen of them fell victims. Colonel Trotti, a brave Piedmontese officer; Major Fiore, of the Carabineers, and ano
The Daily Dispatch: December 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 19 (search)
the question of the arrest of Mason and Slidell under her flag. The Cabinet continued its preparations for war with the United States, should such a step be rendered necessary by the act of Captain Wilkes, and the refusal of our Cabinet to atone for it in the manner demanded. A large number of troops were under orders for Canada. The frigate Warrior was coaling for service in North America, if need, and all British seamen on leave of absence were or dared to join their ships at once. The Cunard mail steamer Persia has been chartered, with the Australasian, for Government service. General Scott had common cited a letter, through the United States Consul, to the Paris press, in which he denies that the seizure of the rebel agents, even on board of a neutral vessel, was predetermined by the Cabinet in Washington to his knowledge.--He says he is unaware of any such resolution, and expresses the hope that the amicable relations exalting between England and the United States may be
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