Lost Ruby
May 21, 2001 at 09:54:19
This steamship went down some time ago in Alabama. Has anyone found it yet? I live in VA or else I'd go look myself. Joe.
Date 8 March 1845
Steamboat Ruby within 40 Miles of Mobile Alabama
10 to 12 thousand in specie (silver)
boat and cargo in 50 feet of water,
total loss several lives lost
was run into by Steamship Red Rover Cptn. Burrell
news article appeared in Cincinnati Daily Commercial, Thursday March 20,1845
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