<i>Title:</i> Destruction of the packet-ship John Rutledge by an icebeg, Feb. 20, 1856 The only survivor, Thomas W. Nye, of New Bedford [with others in lifeboat].
<p>Awful situation of young Nye Survivor of the "John Rutledge"
</p><p>Destruction of the packet-ship <i>John Rutledge</i> by an iceburg, Feb. 20, 1856 The only survivor, Thomas W. Nye, of New Bedford. (Thomas W. Nye, of Fairhaven, Mass.).
</p><p>Three-mast packet ship, the John Rutledge, Captains Alexander Kelley (Cape Cod), left Liverpool. Aboard were more than 120 immigrants bound for New York
</p><p>John Rutledge (ship, 1851). Built in Baltimore, 1851; owned in 1856 by Howland &amp; Ridgeway of New York. About 1,060 tons.
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<i>Abstract/medium:</i> 2 prints on single sheet : wood engravings.
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12 April 1856<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1856-04-12T00:00:00Z/11</div>
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