 On September 17 , a hurricane was observed in the mid @-@ Atlantic by the bark Phantom . Later that day , the Phantom sank , though all of the crew survived . They described the system as a ' perfect hurricane ' with a lull around midnight on September 17 before the wind changed direction and blew with even greater force than before . The hurricane continued travelling on a northwest track and between September 22 and the night of September 23 it was encountered by the Hudson , the City of Washington and the bark Lanark . The system weakened to a tropical storm early on September 24 and dissipated later that day about 610 mi ( 980 km ) east of Cape Race , Newfoundland . Until reanalysis , this storm was considered two separate systems , including in the 1995 study by Partagas and Diaz . However , they stated that further information could indicate a single storm . 
