A Full and Particular Account of All the Circumstances Attending the Loss of the Steamboat Lexington, in Long Island Sound, On the Night of January 13, 1840; As elicited in the evidences of the witnesses examined before the Jury of the Inquest, held in New-York immediately after the lamentable event
Providence: H. H. Brown & A. H. Stillwell, 1840.
First Edition. Paperback. The elegant paddlewheel steamboat Lexington, commissioned by Cornelius Vanderbilt in 1834, was enroute from New York to Boston when it caught fire on January 13, 1840. This work is an account of the inquest jury’s 8-day investigation, its.....