Wake

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DateNewspaperExtracted Article TextPage Images
1885-02-13The Free Lance-Star

—The crew of the oyster paugy Wake, belonging to Capt. Kelso of Ac- comac, while returning from the dredg- ing grounds of Chesapeake Bay, made a narrow escape last week, from drowning. The vessel was struck by a Northwest gale, and soon went to pieces. Two of the crew a German and a colored man perished. Seven of the crew reached the shore on broken timbers and were saved.

Wake newspaper article
1882-01-26The Baltimore Sun

Notes.— A case of habeas corpus against Capt. Lloyd Smith, of the oyster schooner R. Webb, charged with illegal detention of the oyster schooner Wake, was heard before Judge Brown Court of Common Pleas. The evidence that there was no ground for complaint; the writ was dismissed.

Wake newspaper article