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Excerpt from American Adventure by Land and Sea, Vol. 2 of 2: Being Remarkable Instances of Enterprise and Fortitude Among Americans; Shipwrecks, Adventures, at Home and Abroad, Indian Captivities, Etc
A vessel called the Nottingham galley, sailed from England for Boston, on the twenty-fifth of September, 1710. She was commanded by Captain Dean her burden was a hundred and twenty tuns, and she carried ten guns and four teen men. Having touched at one of the ports of Ireland, it was not till the commencement of December that the Shlp came in sight of land to the eastward of what is now the coast of Maine. Thence they steered a southerly course, intending to make for Massachusetts bay.
The wind blew hard from the northeast bring ing rain and snow, and the weather was so hazy, that for twelve days they could not take an observation. On the eleventh of December they lessened sail, keeping the foresail and main topsail double-reefed, and looking out sharply ahead. On the same day, toward evening, breakers were discovered, and the captain order cd the helm to the starboard, but before the ship could come round, by some mismanagement she struck on a rock called Boon island, seven leagues east from the mouth of the Piscataqua river.
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