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Six Sailormen Rescued After Four Days Adrift

Survivors of Wrecked Schooner Lived Off Flying Fish—Three Others Lost.

By the Associated Press.

EAST HAMPTON, N. Y., September 1.—Six survivors of the four-masted auxiliary schooner Samuel W. Hathaway, wrecked at sea last Tuesday in a hurricane that swept the Atlantic seaboard, were picked up early today by the steamship Southern Cross, bound from Buenos Aires for New York.

The rescued sailormen were found floating atop of the schooner’s skylight, where they had existed for four days, eating such flying fish that they snared and drinking water that they caught in their hats.

Posted inMaritime & Naval History US Civil War

August 14, 1861 – From Fortress Monroe

Fortress Monroe, August 10—The steamship Quaker City arrived this morning with the prize schooner George G. Baker, of Galveston, and her confederate crew of four men in irons.

The schooner was captured by one of the United Slates blockading fleet off Galveston, and sent to New York, with a United States crew on board. She was captured yesterday off Cape Hatteras, by the rebel privateer York who put four of her own men on board. In the meanwhile, the York was seen by the United States gun boat Union, who gave chase and burnt the privateer, but not until the crew had beached her and escaped.

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August 8, 1861 – From Charleston—The St. Lawrence Sinks a Privateer

destruction of the privateer PETREL by the ST. LAWRENCE, showing the smaller ship, the Petrel sinking while in the background the frigate St. Lawrence is firing cannon at the vessel.
Destruction of the privateer PETREL by the ST. LAWRENCE

Philadelphia, Aug. 7.—The U. S. gun boat Flag arrived at Fort Mifflin this morning with 36 rebel prisoners taken from a rebel war vessel, formerly the revenue cutter, Aiken, seized at Charleston last winter. The Aiken fired at the St. Lawrence off Charleston, probably mistaking her for a merchant vessel, when the St. Lawrence returned a broadside, sinking the rebel boat. Five of her crew were lost and the rest received and placed on board the Flag.

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Collier Nero is Ashore on Block Island

USS Nero By USNHC photograph Photo #: NH 92197, Public Domain

Struck Dangerous Portion of Coast Early This Morning in Fog

Hole Stove in Her Forward Compartment and Portion of Her Crew Taken Off by Life Savers, While Word is Sent to New London for Assistance, and It Is Expected That She Will Be Gotten Off Before Dark This Evening, Though Her Bow Is Filled With Water.

While proceeding up the coast this morning, bound from Newport News to the Bradford coaling station, the United States auxiliary collier Nero, in command of Captain Shurteff, grounded on the rocky coast of Block Island and stove a hole in her forward compartment, which immediately filled with water.

The ships pilot, it is believed, mistook the distance of the fog signal on South eastern light and ran his ship too close to the shore.