THE WRECK OF THE SAINT JOHN - A LECTURE BY JOHN HORRIGAN
One month later it was smashed up against a rocky ledge (known as Grampus Rock) off the coast of Cohasset in a raging October gale. 100 people lost their lives. Author Henry David Thoreau, heading to Cape Cod for the first time, witnessed the horror firsthand as he traveled along the Massachusetts coast.
The Wreck of the Famine Ship St. John (According to Thoreau)
On Oct. 7, 1849, the brig St. John struck Grampus Ledge off the coast of Cohasset during a sudden and furious storm. The St. John was known as a famine ship because its passengers were mostly destitute Irish emigrants fleeing the great famine.
From Cape Cod: The Shipwreck By Henry David Thoreau
2022年2月23日 · He pointed to a rock in front of us, a mile from the shore, called the Grampus Rock, and added:— “You can see a part of her now sticking up; it looks like a small boat.” I saw it. It was thought to be held by the chain-cables and the anchors. I asked if the bodies which I saw were all that were drowned. “Not a quarter of them,” said he.
St. John shipwreck remembered - Wicked Local
2014年10月3日 · On October 7, 1849, the Irish brig St. John wrecked off of the coast of Cohasset. It was carrying emigrants from Galway who were headed for Boston to escape the potato famine. At least 99...
The Shipwreck of the St. John
One of the most tragic events to occur during the mass exodus from Ireland in the aftermath of the Great Famine was the shipwreck of St. John and the loss of nearly 100 lives, many of whom were from Ennistymon, Lahinch, and Kilfenora, off the coast of Massachusetts in October 1849.
Cape Cod (1865) Thoreau/The Shipwreck - Wikisource
2018年2月8日 · In a little cove, within half a mile, there were an old man and his son collecting, with their team, the sea-weed which that fatal storm had cast up, as serenely employed as if there had never been a wreck in the world, though they were within sight of the Grampus Rock, on which the St. John had struck.
Cape Cod - page 4 - Thoreau online
In a little cove, within half a mile, there were an old man and his son collecting, with their team, the sea-weed which that fatal storm had cast up, as serenely employed as if there had never been a wreck in the world, though they were within sight of the …
Hunting New England Shipwrecks - Wreckhunter
He states that he made Cape Cod Light about 5 o'clock Saturday evening, Scituate Light near 1 o'clock Sunday morning, then stood away to the northward, to clear the land, for about three hours.
cohasset mass. Archives - New England Historical Society
On Oct. 7, 1849, the brig St. John struck Grampus Ledge off the coast of Cohasset during a sudden and furious storm. The St. John was known as a famine ship because its passengers were mostly destitute Irish emigrants fleeing the great famine.
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