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extracted from
New York Daily Times, New York, N.Y.
Jun 23, 1856 p. 3, Jul 7, 1856 p. 1, Jul 12, 1856
p. 4
Clipper-Ship Ocean
Queen,
Captain W.B. Smith,
from London February 8th 1856 to New York, NY
Jun
23, 1856
The Missing Clipper Ships Driver
and Ocean Queen
The clipper ship Driver sailed
from Liverpool on the 12th February last, with a crew of 22 men and 6 officers,
together with 344 passengers, since which time she has not been heard
of, and her owners give her up as lost. The Driver was
a fine clipper, two years old, of 1,594 tons. She had on board a Liverpool
cargo of dry goods and salt, and was fully insured. Daniel Ogden was
the owner of the vessel, and Tapscott & Co., the parties to whom the
cargo and passengers were consigned.
The clipper Ocean Queen sailed on the 15th
February [sic], from London, and was heard of at Portsmouth on the 17th
[sic] of the same month, since which time all trace of her has been lost.
It is supposed that both vessels encountered
the ice, which was then present in the Atlantic in such large bodies, and
were foundered or broken in pieces during the violent storms so prevalent
during all of last Winter.
The Ocean Queen was about
six years old, and of 1,200 tons burden. She was owned by Griswold, Morgan
& Co., and partially insured.
The following is a list of the officers of
the Driver. The crew was shipped in Liverpool, and the owners have not
as yet received their names.
Officers |
Nicholas Hobberton |
|
Master |
D.M. Dunbar |
|
First Officer |
William Mooney |
|
Second Officer |
John Duffy |
|
Third Officer |
Eugene Lambert |
|
Steward |
William George |
|
Cook |
Jul
7, 1856
Arrival of the Baltic The United States Mail steamer
Baltic, from Liverpool, about 1 o'clock pm Wednesday,
the 25th June, arrived at her dock yesterday morning about 11 o'clock.
The British and North American Mail steamer Africa,
Captain Shannon, arrived off Liverpool on the evening of Sunday the 22nd
June and came up the river about midnight. . . . . . .
The probable loss of the American ship
Ocean Queen, Captain Smith, of the London and New-York
Line,
with 110 lives, has been reported at Lloyds. This ship left the London
docks on February 8th, with a full miscellaneous cargo and 85 steerage
passengers. On February 15th she was spoken
off the Isle of Wight, all well, since which nothing has been heard of
her, and there is reason to fear she was lost in the ice in which the
steamer Pacific perished. The ship G.B. Lamar, which
left the Thames the same time as the Ocean Queen, was
in great jeopardy from ice, on her voyage out.
The ship Moro Castle,
of Windsor, N.S., timber laden, was abandoned at sea, and has been towed
into Crookshaven, water-logged and with masts gone.
The ship Marco Polo had
arrived at Liverpool from Melbourne, with £316,000 in gold.
The American ship Unicorn,
from Liverpool to Boston, was abandoned at sea on the 7th of June, lat.
39° N. long. 51° W. The crew were rescued by the Jane
E. Walsh from Havana, and taken into Falmouth on the
24th June. . . . . . .
Jul
12, 1856
List of Passengers of the Ocean Queen
There is now no doubt but
that the clipper ship Ocean Queen, Captain W. B. Smith,
of the London and New-York Line, has been lost, and 123 persons
have perished. She sailed
from London on the 8th of February last with a miscellaneous cargo, 90
passengers and crew of 33 persons. On the 15th of February she was spoken
off the Isle of Wight, and, since that time, nothing has been heard of
her. The following is a list of the name of the passengers and crew.
Officers & Crew |
W.B. Smith, Master |
|
A. Allen, Steward |
G.B. James, Mate |
|
M. Moore, 2nd Steward |
W.H. Stanley, 2nd Mate |
|
Rebecca Thomas, Stewardess |
H. Comstock, 3rd Mate |
|
Samuel Jackson, Cook |
John Johnson, Carpenter |
|
P. Schoemaker, 2nd Cook |
|
|
|
Seamen |
Charles Fen |
|
John Johnson |
|
Henry Campbell |
Watson Rogers |
|
James Moore |
|
Carl E. Hansen |
James Cunningham |
|
James Heath |
|
John Brown |
George Griffiths |
|
William Brown |
|
John Nelson |
John Rigman |
|
Richard Power |
|
Nathan D. Chase |
John Maclean |
|
W. Flynn |
|
Charles Stevens |
Thomas Leader |
|
John Sullivan |
|
Karl Reems |
John Dunnovan |
|
Robert Champion |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Passengers |
Name |
Age |
|
Name |
Age |
John Seaver |
23 |
|
John Marsh |
22? |
Margaret Seaver |
23 |
|
Harriet Marsh |
19 |
John Seaver |
inf |
|
Alfred Abel |
18 |
John Cook |
23 |
|
Eliza Wiskar |
24 |
Mrs. Cook wife |
25 |
|
William Wiskar |
4 |
child |
1 |
|
C.H. Anson |
26 |
Bridget Sullivan |
52 |
|
Ellen O'Neal |
24 |
Jeremiah Sullivan |
21 |
|
Moses Gilbert |
30 |
Mark Atkins |
22 |
|
Catharine Gilbert |
20 |
Lewis Atkins |
18 |
|
Thomas Elliott |
19 |
Mary Fitzgerald |
30 |
|
George Martin |
25 |
Abbey Fitzgerald |
11 |
|
Edmund Burt |
59 |
Margaret Fitzgerald |
6 |
|
Frederick Goode |
30 |
Morris Fitzgerald |
2 |
|
Emma Goode |
29 |
William Fitzgerald |
inf |
|
Louisa Rogers |
35 |
Mary Jeffries |
42 |
|
Frederick Rogers |
15 |
William Jeffries |
45 |
|
Charles Rogers |
13 |
Elizabeth Jeffries |
9 |
|
Eliza Rogers |
11 |
William Jeffries |
11 |
|
Benjamin Rogers |
6 |
Sarah Rogers |
8 |
|
George Belts |
21 |
Thomas Wicks |
21 |
|
William Checkley |
18 |
William George |
21 |
|
James Bolton |
24 |
Eliza Swan on [Swanson] |
16 |
|
Charlotte Bolton |
22 |
Catharine Shipson |
62 |
|
Vincent Blonds |
22 |
Mary Ann Shipson |
39 |
|
John Falvey |
21 |
Sarah Shipson |
37 |
|
George Jaggs |
39 |
Harriet Isabella Shipson |
22 |
|
Catharine Jaggs |
49? |
Charles Richards |
44 |
|
William Jaggs |
32 |
Ann Richards |
40 |
|
Jane Jaggs |
45 |
Mary Richards |
17 |
|
Bridget Dacey |
5 |
John Richards |
10 |
|
Maria Berrisson |
38 |
Sarah Richards |
11 |
|
William Headley [Hendley] |
22 |
Elizabeth Martin |
30 |
|
John Hendley |
19 |
Phillip Brown |
25 |
|
|
|
Cabin Passengers |
Henry Brown, Mr. Davis, Mr. Robson |
German Passengers |
|
Name |
Age |
|
Name |
Age |
Catharine Muller |
24 |
|
Margaret Grum |
6 |
John Nic. Straub |
21 |
|
Maria Grum |
4 |
Eva Hold |
24 |
|
infant |
|
Heinrich Ria or Kia |
36 |
|
Johan Weissgerber |
28 |
Margaret Becker |
32 |
|
Eliza Deckler |
46 |
Johan Korn |
48 |
|
Catharine Deckler |
11 |
Maria Grum |
33 |
|
Elizabeth Deckler |
10 |
William Grum |
11 |
|
Sophia Deckler |
8 |
Joseph Grum |
9 |
|
Catharine Eurich |
30 |
Heinrich Grum |
8 |
|
Catharine Eurich |
inf |
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