Melancholy shipwreck The following lines were occasioned by the loss of the schooner Charles, Captain Adams, of Portland, who was wrecked on Richmond's Island, near the entrance of Portland harbor, on the night of the 12th of July, 1807, which schooner had on board 22 persons, 16 of whom perished - Shaw, Thomas (s.n, 1807)
Another edition, filmed by Readex Microprint Corporation as an additional entry for Shaw & Shoemaker 13580, has Thomas Shaw's name as author. - Dated: Portland July 14th, 1807. - Shaw & Shoemaker, 13580. - Text in three columns separated and surrounded by mourning border; relief cuts of sixteen coffins at head; printed area measures 26.8 x 25.1 cm. - Verse of 116 lines; first line: Come all kind husbands now behold
Keywords: Charles (Schooner); Shipwrecks -- Poetry; Shipwrecks -- Maine -- Portland