Heavy weather and sprung leak and became water logged. Abandoned vessel full of water, sea breaking over, unmanageable. Nothing to eat, four days without food.

Wreck Report

Conditions: Storm South-East gale, thick and rainy.

"Vessel was burnt & rebuilt.... as per Certificate of Jno.W. Gurdon [sic] master builder of Green Point in the year 1866 & altered to a Brig.
" Owners: W. H. Carter 1.2, of Jersey City, N.J., and William Elliott, of New York City; Wm. H. Carter, master; home port: New York. 1 deck, 2 masts; L 175, B 30 8/10, D 11 7/10.
Measures 340 12/00 tons, 284 14/00 under tonnage deck, 44 57/00 between decks above tonnage deck. 11 41/00 enclosures on the upper deck.

Register No. 493, Dec. 13, 1866

Record Group 41, Records of the Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation. Records Relating to Merchant Vessel Documentation, 1774-1958. Certificates of Register Issued at the Port of New York. National Archives and Records Administration, Archives I, Washington, D.C.