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The Daily Dispatch: December 27, 1860., [Electronic resource], "Sea-going Coffins." (search)
"Sea-going Coffins."
--A writer in the London Shipping Gazette styles the iron screw steamships, now extensively employed in navigating the waters of Northern Europe, as "sea-going coffins. " No less than six or seven of them were lost (five foundered) in a gale October 3d and 4th, the loss of life amounting to about two hundred persons.