1 8 Account of a Hurricane 



south-west, north-west, and south-west. It was terribly 

 furious, so as to damage )iis rigging very much, loosen his 

 masts, and render his ship vcr)- leaky. 



Capt. King, from Dcmararaj was invaded by the gale on 

 the cvenino; of the Cth, in lal. 21° 5l', and his vessel was 

 thrown oiriier beam ends. He was forced to cut away her 

 main-mast. Lost a man, who was washed overboard. 



Capt. Messroon took the gale in the Gulf Strean), lat. 

 20°, on the 6th of September. The wind was then east- 

 north-east, and continued so until the 7th, then it shifted 

 to south-east. It was vt^ry severe, though he escaped with- 

 out material damage. 



In lat. 22", long. 64°, capt. Beard was wrecked in the 

 gale. It began on the 3d of September, continued during 

 the 4th, and did not end before the 3th. He and his crew 

 were taken off the wreck on the 9th. 



On the 7th, 8th, and gth of September, capt, .Tenne, 

 bound from Kingston, in Jamaica, to Baltimore, suflered 

 a tremendous gale in lat. 33°, long. 74°. The wind varied 

 between north-east and south-east. 



Capt. Mood, on a voyage from Alexandria (Virginia), 

 to St. Mary's (Georgia), was, on the night of the 7th, in 

 the Gulf Stream, to the eastward of Charlston : the wind 

 there was east-north-east, and so hard as to throw his vessel 

 on her beam ends. She lay several hours in this situation. 

 Several of his crew were washed overboard. 



Capt. Miller, on a voyage from Martha-Brae, in Jamaica, 

 Dovmd for Wilmington (North Carolina), experienced the 

 same gale the same night, on the inner edge of the Gulf 

 Stream. It was so violent as to heave his vessel on her side 

 as she was lying-to under her jib, to unstep her masts, and 

 to tear up her deck. In this forlorn condition the crew were 

 fortunate enough to save themselves by gettting on board 

 another vessel. 



Capt. Andrews, on his way from Charlston to Nassau 

 (New Providence), encountered the most formidable part of 

 the gale on the night of the 7th of September, in lat. 26°, 

 long. 77°. She was thrown on her beam ends, her boom 

 broken to pieces, her main-topsail and rigging carried away, 

 and two men washed overboard. 



The brig Augusta was on her passage from Savannah to 

 New York when the gale began. She had sailed on the - 

 31st of August, and had progressed no further than the 

 Frying-pan Shoals, off Cape Fear, on September 7th. Being 

 there exposed to its vehemence, they stood offshore as long- 

 as she could carry sail ; but at half past two P. M. they were 



obliged 



