User:Maralia/Arctic-Vesta Sources


starting point

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news reports on the event

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aggregated reports/related articles

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info about ship specs, shipping line

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  • http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/collins.html
  • http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/descriptions/ShipsAA.html specs
  • http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic Dutch wiki page
  • http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1957/2/1957_2_48.shtml Collins Line
  • http://the-big-pic.org/Fulsom-fullaccount.htm Collins Line
  • Morrison, John Harrison (1908). History of American Steam Navigation. W. F. Sametz & Co. Retrieved 2008-01-23. expansive section on Collins Line/USMSSC beginning on p 411
  • Fry, Henry (1896). The History of North Atlantic Steam Navigation: With Some Account of Early Ships and Shipowners. S. Low, Marston & Company Ltd. Section on Collins Line beginning on p 66
  • History of Letter Post Communication Between the United States and Europe, 1845—1875 with information about Collins Line
  • Knox, Thomas Wallace (1886). The Life of Robert Fulton and a History of Steam Navigation. G. P. Putnam's sons. Retrieved 2008-01-30. Section on Collins line beginning on p 366

packet trade

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trivia

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  • a Shakespeare First Folio went down with the Arctic
  • Virginia bonds belonging to George Peabody and worth $35,000 were lost on Arctic. When VA wouldn't redeem them, Peabody gave their value to Washington College president Robert E. Lee in 1869; in 1883 VA gave the renamed Washington and Lee University $60,000, the value of the bonds plus interest. sources quoted as Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia for the Session of 1869-70 (Richmond, Va.: Clemmett & Sons, 1870), p. 112 and Baltimore American, May 14, 1883

books available online

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books not available online

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  • Burg, B.R. “Women and Children First”: Popular Mythology and Disaster at Sea, 1840–1860. Blackwell Publishing. (Article published in Source: Journal of American & Comparative Cultures, Volume 20, Number 4, Winter 1997 , pp. 1-9)

images

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  1. ^ Chambers, p 115
  2. ^ Chambers, p 205
  3. ^ Roden, The New York Times
  4. ^ Myers, Oneida Daily Dispatch