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Four Short Blasts: The Great Gale of 1898 and the Loss of the Steamer Portland
Four Short Blasts The Great Gale of 1898 and the Loss of the Steamer Portland
Author: Peter Dow Bachelder, Mason Philip Smith
The greal gale of November 1898 ravaged the New England coast from Connecticut to Maine. Over 500 lives were lost to the storm and hundreds of vessels, large and small, disappeared beneath the ocean or were cast up on the shoreline. The largest loss of life, 192 passengers and crew, was aboard the 280-foot, white hulled, steamer Portland which d...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780931675119
ISBN-10: 0931675111
Publication Date: 7/2003
Pages: 142
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Publisher: The Provincial Press
Book Type: Paperback
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