This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Narrow Escape of an American Bark from Ice in South Atlantic
The Cashmere, a British iron bark, narrowly escaped a deadly ice pack in the South Atlantic after rounding the Horn. Skipper Cant Thompson recalled ice-wracked ships of 1854 as he steered 300 miles east of the Falklands on February 23 28, noting a towering berg sighting and a tense lookout by Third Mate Pontet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Atlantic
Tropic
Sout Atlantic
Falkland Islands
Gap
Thompson
Cashmere
Pisagua
Erie Basin
Pissqua
The
Horn
England
Australia
Valparaiso
Royal Alfred
Pontet
Risaant