New York, 1854

Hamburg bark ELBE, Schwensen, arrived at New York on Sunday, 8 January 1854 (passenger manifest dated 9 January 1854), 43 days from Hamburg, with merchandise and 201 passengers, to Beck & Kunhardt. "Has seen large quantities of wrecked stuff: Dec. 27, lat 40, lon 67, passed a number of planks and some hogsheads with the heads painted red. Has experienced heavy westerly gales."

http://www.geocities.com/mppraetorius/com-el.htm

off Bremerhaven, 1881

Roter Sand
1885. Inactive since 1986. 28 m (92 ft) round cast iron, brick lined tower with primary and secondary lanterns and a triangular gallery, built on a steel caisson. Keeper's quarters incorporated in the tower. Lighthouse painted with red and white horizontal bands; the base of the tower and roofs of the lanterns are black. Werning has a page with a great photo, and Tim Boettger also has a good photo. One of the world's great waveswept lighthouses. Construction of the tower posed enormous difficulties; the first attempt failed when a storm overturned the incomplete caisson on October 13, 1881. The light was downgraded in 1964, when Alte Weser took over its function as the landfall light for Bremerhaven.

http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/lighthouse/deu1b.htm

Whickham, 1870

(17/07/1870) Funeral of Harry Clasper at St. Mary's church in Whickham. An estimated 100,000 to 130,000 people lined route of the funeral from the Tunnel Inn, at the mouth of the River Ouseburn to the church. The funeral cortege could not make its way through Sandhill due to the huge numbers of mourners, and so the coffin had to be placed aboard a barge at the High Level Bridge, and rowed up the Tyne.

http://www.nerowing.com/rowhist/clasper.html