User:Maralia/Arctic-Vesta Sources

starting point

 * http://www.greatoceanliners.net/arctic.html comprehensive info about the event

news reports on the event

 * http://www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/ARCTIC1854.html The Northern Times, Oct 13th 1854 - note linked passenger list and letters, including from the Captain
 * http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Gazette/Accidents/Ocean_Vesta_Collision.html St. John's Public Ledger, 3rd October, 1854

aggregated reports/related articles

 * http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1961/4/1961_4_8.shtml Artist of a Buried World (mostly about Catherwood)
 * http://www.enotes.com/peoples-chronology/year-1854/transportation
 * http://www.maritimequest.com/daily_event_archive/2007/pages/jan/23_ss_pacific.htm

related family history pages

 * http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10638/10638-h/10638-h.htm RE Allen family, The Youthful Wanderer by George H. Heffner
 * http://www.green-wood.com/pdf/brownfamily40to43.pdf family memorial, nice pictures & illustration of wreck
 * http://www.lib.rochester.edu/IN/RBSCP/Epitaph/attachments/23_2.pdf
 * http://www.historyfromheadstones.com/index.php?id=780

info about ship specs, shipping line

 * http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/collins.html
 * http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/descriptions/ShipsAA.html specs
 * http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic Dutch wiki page
 * http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1957/2/1957_2_48.shtml Collins Line
 * http://the-big-pic.org/Fulsom-fullaccount.htm Collins Line
 * expansive section on Collins Line/USMSSC beginning on p 411
 * Section on Collins Line beginning on p 66
 * History of Letter Post Communication Between the United States and Europe, 1845—1875 with information about Collins Line
 * Section on Collins line beginning on p 366

packet trade

 * http://books.google.com/books?id=qY4EAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA468&dq=%22Packet+trade%22&lr=&as_brr=1&ei=gdiWR9GnOY3WzAStpPn9Bg 1848 British merchants magazine, RE loss of packet business, attributes remaining British superiority to subsidy
 * Gives sailing packet times "in past years" as "86 days outward, and 24 days homeward" for Liverpool-NYC
 * "now that the Collins Line of steamers is supported by a grant from the United States government, double the amount of that paid to the British line, it is said that we are to be irrecoverably beaten in the passage of the 'ferry'[...] between Liverpool and New York."
 * "now that the Collins Line of steamers is supported by a grant from the United States government, double the amount of that paid to the British line, it is said that we are to be irrecoverably beaten in the passage of the 'ferry'[...] between Liverpool and New York."

trivia

 * a Shakespeare First Folio went down with the Arctic
 * "He is known to have lost a first folio Shakespeare in 1854 in the Arctic, the ship that carried down many prominent New Yorkers of the day, among them Henry Austin Brady, another collector."
 * "One, purchased by lawyer Almon W. Griswold of New York City, was lost with the New York-bound Collins liner Arctic after the steamship collided with the Vesta in fog off Cape Race, Newfoundland, on Sept. 28, 1854."
 * Virginia bonds belonging to George Peabody and worth $35,000 were lost on Arctic. When VA wouldn't redeem them, Peabody gave their value to Washington College president Robert E. Lee in 1869; in 1883 VA gave the renamed Washington and Lee University $60,000, the value of the bonds plus interest. sources quoted as Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia for the Session of 1869-70     (Richmond, Va.: Clemmett & Sons, 1870), p. 112 and Baltimore American, May 14, 1883
 * "One, purchased by lawyer Almon W. Griswold of New York City, was lost with the New York-bound Collins liner Arctic after the steamship collided with the Vesta in fog off Cape Race, Newfoundland, on Sept. 28, 1854."
 * Virginia bonds belonging to George Peabody and worth $35,000 were lost on Arctic. When VA wouldn't redeem them, Peabody gave their value to Washington College president Robert E. Lee in 1869; in 1883 VA gave the renamed Washington and Lee University $60,000, the value of the bonds plus interest. sources quoted as Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia for the Session of 1869-70     (Richmond, Va.: Clemmett & Sons, 1870), p. 112 and Baltimore American, May 14, 1883

books not available online

 * (Article published in Source: Journal of American & Comparative Cultures, Volume 20, Number 4, Winter 1997, pp. 1-9)



images

 * http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c37402 Currier and Ives lithograph at Library of Congress
 * http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/us~hfcl.html#collins Collins Line flags (note second image at the link is iffy)