Frank Cassidy

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Type: Pungy

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DateNewspaperExtracted Article TextPage Images
1878-10-24The Norfolk Landmark

HELD BY HER ANCHORS. Several laden oyster boats lying in the County dock were sunk and others dam-aged. The schooner Blanche Tennis lost her yawl boat, the pungy Frank Cassidy her taffrail, and the canoe Bonnie Dundee broke loose from her moorings at Messrs. Not-tingham & Wrenu's wharf at Atlantic City, and floated out into the harbor, where she was

Frank Cassidy newspaper article
1893-02-21The Baltimore Sun

ABANDONED IN THE PATAPSCO. A Schooner's Crew Thought to be Drowned—News of the Port.

The tug Lauretta Spedden, Capt. George Weaver, found the pungy Frank Cassidy with a coating of ice below Fort Carroll. She had been caught in the gale. All sail was lowered and both anchors were coated with ice, and to free her both anchors had to be slipped. To do this Captain Weaver had to supply the men on the pungy with axes.

Frank Cassidy newspaper article