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Foreign News August 19, 1852

Meigs County Telegraph

Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio

What is this article about?

On August 11, the schooner Gloucester arrived in Boston from the Fisheries, reporting that British officers from the Devastation boarded the C. V. Rogers and other American schooners, ordered them out of the bay, mistreated their papers, and fired on one escaping vessel, wounding the helmsman.

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Later and Important from the Fisheries.—Boston, Aug. 11.—The "Gloucester" has arrived from the Fisheries, and brings information that the schooner "C. V. Rogers," was boarded by the officers of the "Devastation," and was ordered out of the bay, together with about twenty other schooners, which were at the time out or five miles from the land; the papers were called for by the English officers, who having looked at them, crumpled them up, and threw them with disdain on the deck; they also ordered a schooner which was getting water in one of the bays, giving her but fifteen minutes to leave. It is reported that an American schooner was fired into, while escaping from the cutter, and the man at the helm wounded.

What sub-type of article is it?

Naval Affairs Trade Or Commerce

What keywords are associated?

Fisheries British Officers American Schooners Boarding Devastation Wounded Helmsman

Where did it happen?

The Fisheries

Foreign News Details

Primary Location

The Fisheries

Outcome

one man at the helm wounded

Event Details

The schooner Gloucester arrived from the Fisheries reporting that the schooner C. V. Rogers was boarded by officers of the Devastation and ordered out of the bay along with about twenty other schooners five miles from land; English officers examined and discarded their papers disdainfully; another schooner getting water was given fifteen minutes to leave; an American schooner was fired into while escaping the cutter, wounding the helmsman.

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