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Tag: Nautical

1/1/1614 Adriean Block explores the Long Island Sound

1/1/1643 Kieft War begins

9/27/1647 Director General Willem Kieft and Domine Everardus Bogardus die in a shipwreck

5/10/1843 Captian Thomas Raynor makes regular runs between Raynor South and New York on the sloop Native

2/11/1878 Samuel Smith of Coe’s Neck perishes during the night

3/15/1894 Resolution to deepen and widen Freeport Creek

1/15/1895 Brave Sailors Drowned

8/4/1899 Mate of the Schooner Hinely Lost

12/9/1900 East Channel digging

10/14/1902 Found Turtle he Marked 46 Years Ago

7/12/1902 Launch Overturned – Many Lives May be Lost

7/5/1907 Clarence E Jones’ new motor boat is one of the best equipped around

8/17/1907 13 Year Old Drowns at Freeport

7/19/1909 Drowned at Freeport

8/31/1909 Loses Race with Death

7/31/1910 Yachtsman Crushed by Bridge

10/7/1912 Surf Swamps Boat; Two Men Drowned

7/14/1913 Rescued from Water Hole

6/15/1914 Boys Rescues Swimmer

5/1/1916 The Dutch expedition ship Tyger is partially excavated by subway construction crews

11/21/1950 William Banks’ yacht, The Jesting II, breaks free of its mooring

1/1/2014 A Dutch ship wrecks in the North River under skipper Symen Lambertsz Mau