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Newsday (Melville, NY)
MAY-06
Pieces of history sail into LI museum: In 1815 letter, on display in Southold, Sag Harbor teen recounts British shipwreck, rescue.
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Pieces of history sail into LI museum: In 1815 letter, on display in Southold, Sag Harbor teen recounts British shipwreck, rescue.
Publication: Newsday (Melville, NY) Publication Date: 31-MAY-06 |
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COPYRIGHT 2006 Newsday
Byline: Bill Bleyer
May 31--When 19-year-old Henry T. Dering, a member of a prominent Sag Harbor family, heard about a ship wrecked off the South Shore one stormy morning in January 1815, he borrowed a horse and rode five miles to the scene. Off the Southampton shore he saw five survivors clinging to the keel of a section of the overturned hull of H.M.S. Sylph and watched as two...
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