Manley’s Lee captures Nancy at Boston harbor navy prize
Captain John Manley aboard the 14 gun schooner Lee captures the British ordnance brig Nancy at the harbor entrance. The prize yields 2000 muskets 100000 flints 30000 round shot 30 tons musket shot and a 2700 pound mortar later called Congress. Washington names Manley commander of Washington's Navy in January. He continues a noted career including the war’s last major capture in January 1783.
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John Manley
Lee
Nancy
Boston Harbor
Congress
Manley
Washington
West Indies
Fitzgerald skipper feared the freighter would fail at sea
Former Fitzgerald second mate Richard Orgel recalls Captain Ernest McSorley saying the ship scared him at times as the Edmund Fitzgerald battled hurricane winds on Lake Superior. Orgel says McSorley ordered a northerly course and to alert him if the ship started to wiggle, before he went to his cabin.
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Ernest McSorley
Fitzgerald
Lake Superior
Richard Orgel
Atlantic
Orgel
McSorley
MsSorley
Pittsburgh teachers strike disrupts city schools
Pittsburgh teachers walk out for the third time in eight years, with 62,000 pupils told to report to class yet buses and lunches canceled. Union leader Albert Fondy cites unresolved issues beyond salary as the cause, and the strike could last two months.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers
Albert Fondy
Fondy
Plimmon Dudley Shapes Rail Safety Devices
Plimmon H. Dudley born 1843 in Freedom Portage County Ohio invented devices to measure railroad track strains improving rail safety and performance. Dudley lived 1843 to 1924 and contributed to early railroad engineering with strain measurement apparatus.
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Plimmon H. Dudley
Freedom
Portage County
Ohio
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