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Hardcover Death by Fire and Ice: The Steamboat Lexington Calamity Book

ISBN: 1682478041

ISBN13: 9781682478042

Death by Fire and Ice: The Steamboat Lexington Calamity

Death by Fire and Ice tells the little-known story of the sinking of the steamboat Lexington on Long Island Sound in January 1840. Built in 1835 by Cornelius Vanderbilt, the Lexington left Manhattan bound for Stonington, Connecticut, at four o'clock in the afternoon on a bitterly cold day carrying an estimated one hundred forty-seven passengers and crew and a cargo of, among other things, baled cotton. After making her way up an ice-encrusted East...

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