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From: Justine Gengras <>
Subject: Re: [MAINE] Captain James Reed of the ship "Adelaide Norris" fromDamariscotta
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:41:34 -0400
In-Reply-To: <3981.12.45.239.68.1212609257.squirrel@webmail.midmaine.com>

Hi David,
I don't know if the entire crew died in the yellow fever epidemic, but
James Reed and his son did. See news item below.

Justine

Bangor Daily Whig & Courier, (Bangor, ME) Monday, February 24, 1873; Issue
47; col A; Telegraphic News
South America: Bangor Daily Whig & Courier, (Bangor, ME) Monday, February
24, 1873; Issue 47; col A; Telegraphic News
South America: Yellow Fever at Rio
New York, Feb. 22. A letter from Rio Janeiro January 28th, states that the
yellow fever is still raging there. Five Americans have died including
Captain Reed and son of the barque Adelaide Norris of Boston. The frigate
Ticonderoga was at Rio, but would leave in a few days to escape the
contagion. One of the 15 men left at Rio by the U.S. sloop-of-war Omaha
had died in the hospital of the fever.

At 03:54 PM 6/4/08 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi There,
>
>Does anyone have any information on:
>
>Captain James Reed of the bark ship "Adelaide Norris"
>The ship was built in 1863 in Damariscotta, Maine, and sailed under
>Captain Reed sometime after that.
>
>I have "heard rumors" as yet unsubstantiated, that Captain Reed and his
>entire crew became fatally ill with Yellow Fever while on a voyage, and a
>replacement crew had to be shipped abroad to retrieve the ship back to
>Damariscotta.
>
>The New York Times reports that the bark Adelaide Norris sank 35 miles off
>the coast of Grand Bahama Island on May 16, 1880, with the entire crew
>saved by a passing vessel on May 22, 1880. This from an article on Page 6
>of the NYT on May 31, 1880.
>
>Thank-you,
>
>-David Reed
>Bangor, Maine

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