Mermaid Endangers Mediterranean Shipping, 1717
London [September 1717]. Fresh Letter[s] from Leghorn say, that the terrible Mermaid or Merman which of late has been seen in those Seas, and shew’d it self above 13 or 14 Foot high above the Water, but if any ...
Ordeal of a Philadelphia Logwood Ship, 1767
Philadelphia, April 2. Extract of a Letter from Captain Charles Smith, late Commander of the Ship Chance, bound from this Port for Rotterdam, dated Dover, December 31, 1766. “On the 11th Instant, about 5 o’Clock in the Morning, I was ...
Sailors of the Royal Navy Freed from Slavery, 1760
“Ireland. Galway, June 12 [1760]. Monday last arrived in this harbour, the Europe of Guernsey, James Stearn, Master, from London, with Porter, Sugars, Iron and Junk, to Mr. Pierce Joyce of this town. On Friday last, said ...
Surviving the Hurricane of August 1751
“[Boston]. Last Friday came to Town from New-London, Capt. Samuel Gallop, late Master of the Brigantine Polly of this Place, who sail’d from hence the 19th of August last bound for Antigua, and informs us, That in his Passage on ...
Wreck of HMS Mermaid, 1759
“The following is an account of the misfortune that befell his Majesty’s ship Mermaid on the 5th [December 1759], and of her situation, on the 10th, as given by Captain Hackman himself. ‘His Majesty’s ship Mermaid, under my command, sailed ...
