Identifier: sloopsofhudsonhi00verp (find matches)
Title: The sloops of the Hudson; an historical sketch of the packet and market sloops of the last century, with a record of their names; together with personal reminiscences of certain of the notable North river sailing masters
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Verplanck, William Edward, 1856- Collyer, Moses Wakeman Woolsey, George Davis, 1829-1900
Subjects: Shipping -- Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)
Publisher: New York and London : G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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vered his head fromhis body, the head going overboard leaving the 68 Sloops of the Hudson body on deck. This happened in the summerof 1866. Sloop Mary Dallas capsized on Long IslandSound, E. S. E. of Faulkners Island, and wastowed into New London by the tug Wellington,August 6, 1866. Sloop David Sands was sunk in collision witha steamer New York harbor, and three out offive of the crew were drowned. Sloops General Ward and James Coats camenear being burned in the great railroad accidentat New Hamburgh drawbridge where Doc. Sim-mons, engineer, and twenty-three passengerslost their lives, February 6, 1871. At Low Point (now Chelsea) they couldboast of eight sloops and schooners duringthe period between 1868 and 1888. Inthe list were the Benjamin Franklin, LydiaWhite, Iron Age, Fancy, Wm. A. Ripley,and Henrietta Collyer. During this periodNewburgh was the home port of nearlytwenty sailing vessels. In this list werethe Illinois, of which Pomp (James)Wilson was captain, and the Samsondale,
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SLOOP MARY DALLAS, OWNED BY CAPTAIN MARTIN V. DRAKE OF NEW HAMBURGH From an oil painting owned by him The Packets 69 whose captain was George Woolsey. Hehad a good voice and was fond of singingas he stood on the quarter-deck by thetiller of a moonlight night. In Part III.will be found the reminiscences of CaptainWoolsey, which his widow has kindly givenfor publication. The Illinois was wrecked off Point Judithabout fifteen years ago. The fate of theSamsondale was to become a lighter, and tolay her bones on the Jersey Flats. Counting the sloops at Cornwall, Fish-kill, Low Point, New Hamburgh, and NewWindsor with those at Newburgh therewere at least thirty sailing vessels hailingfrom Newburgh bay. Cold Spring is in the Highlands at thesouth end of the Worragut, so dreadedby the old Dutch skippers, if WashingtonIrving is to be believed. This reach hasalways borne a bad reputation for its baf-fling and gusty winds. Nevertheless severalsloops made that their home port, drawnthither by the

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