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Tag: Rockport

Awful Calamities: the Shipwrecks of December, 1839

November 30, 2021 Gordon HarrisLeave a comment
Ships off Liverpool in the Great Storm of 1839

Three gales of unequaled fury and destructiveness swept along our coast carrying desolation and death in their stormy pathway, and overwhelming many families in the deepest mourning.

Posted in History, Shipwrecks, Storms, winterTagged 1839, December, disaster, Gloucester, Marblehead, Rockport, storm

Killed by a swordfish in Ipswich Bay, August 19, 1886

August 15, 2021October 20, 2022 Gordon Harris2 Comments
Attacked by a swordfish in Ipswich Bay

Captain Franklin D. Langsford sailed from Cape Ann in pursuit of swordfish. After harpooning one in Ipswich Bay, the fish turned and thrust its sword through the boat and the Captain. Not yet realizing that he was wounded, he seized the sword and exclaimed, "We got him anyway!"

Posted in StoriesTagged 1886, fish, lanesville, Rockport, swordfish

Wreck of the Watch and Wait, August 24, 1635

August 15, 2021October 20, 2022 Gordon HarrisLeave a comment
Wreck of the Watch and Wait

Many ships and lives were lost in the Great Colonial Hurricane, including 21 passengers who had set out from Ipswich on August 21, 1635 on a small bark named "Watch and Wait." As they rounded Cape Ann they were suddenly met by the force of the winds.

Posted in ShipwrecksTagged 1600, Rockport, storm

Hannah Jumper leads raid on Rockport liquor establishments, July 8, 1856

August 7, 2021 Gordon Harris2 Comments

On the morning of July 8, 1856, two hundred women, three men and their supporters gathered in Rockport's Dock Square and unfurled a banner with a black hatchet, determined to destroy all the alcohol in the town. The leaders of the mob was a 75-year-old seamstress named Hannah Jumper.

Posted in StoriesTagged 1856, conspiracy, July, Rockport, women

Sketches of Cape Ann

March 14, 2017April 12, 2020 Gordon HarrisLeave a comment

From Gloucester and Cape Ann by S. G. W. Benjamin, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, September 1875

Posted in PlacesTagged Annisquam, Cape Ann, Gloucester, Rockport

The British attack on Sandy Bay

July 12, 2016November 14, 2022 Gordon HarrisLeave a comment

Rockport experienced one of the oddest invasions in U.S. history during the War of 1812 when the town's fearless residents stopped the British with rocks and anything they could get their hands on.

Posted in HistoryTagged 1812, Rockport, September, war
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