1827 | Birth date in Gorham of Ellen White, who guided the growth of the Seventh Day Adventist movement. | ||
1861 | Hampden-built vessel Arcade is captured by Confederate raiders. |
1898 |
First day of the two-day Portland Gale, a hurricane and blizzard that raged for over thirty-six hours sinking about one hundred vessels including the steamer Portland “somewhere off Cape Cod.” The shipwreck took 192 lives and, according to a 2002 report of the discovery of the wreck, it sank between Cap Cod and Cape Ann. |