Legal papers on the collision of the Cunard steamship Samaria, 1880.

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Legal papers on the collision of the Cunard steamship Samaria, 1880.

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Contains papers regarding the collision between the steamship Samaria and the Danish steamer Thingvalla. Includes deposition of William Frederick Hartford, second officer of the Samaria, and corrspondence from R.G.F. Candage and Eben Howes, marine surveyors.

[16] leaves ; 26 cm. Paper bound with string.

Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall Cambridge, MA 02138

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Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall Cambridge, MA 02138

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Hartford, William Frederick.

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Thingvalla (Ship)

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Howes, Eben.

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Putnam, George, 1834-1912.

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Samaria (Ship)

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Candage, R. G. F. (Rufus George Frederick), 1826-1912

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Rufus Candage was born in Blue Hill, Maine in 1826, the son of Samuel and Phebe Candage. He went to sea at age eighteen, sailing along the coast of New England and then on voyages to the West Indies and to Europe. He served as master of the brig Equator and the ships Jamestown of New York and Electric Spark and National Eagle, both of Boston. He spent twenty-three years as a sailor, retiring in 1867 to Brookline, Mass. Rufus Candage died in 1912. From the description of Papers, 1808-...