Find #17 · shipwreck
Brig Rideout, bound from Bath to Matanzas, capsized on Cape Cod with all hands in 1839
ALREADY KNOWN1839: From the sermon into the storm
Brig Rideout, from Bath for Matanzas, was driven among the breakers on the Cape, capsized, and all hands were lost.
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A compilation of the December 1839 gale reports that the brig Rideout, sailing from Bath (Maine) for Matanzas, Cuba, was driven into the breakers on the Cape, capsized, and all aboard were lost. The same page lists dozens of other vessels wrecked around Cape Cod, including the brig Austin, whose crew survived by rope. The exact location, crew size and the vessel's fate beyond this line are not given, and the page is a secondary compilation of press reports.
- How forgotten?
- little-known · The December 1839 gale (associated with the Portland Gale-era storms of that year) is documented in general terms, but I have no specific knowledge of the Rideout's loss.
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- Documented today · A Cape Cod history article on the December 1839 storm says the brig Rideout of Bath, Maine, struck at Peaked Hill Bars in Provincetown. At least 10 crew died. It cites the 1841 booklet "Awful Calamities: The Shipwrecks of December 1839." (9 sources seen)
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Awful calamities: or, The shipwrecks of December, 1839, 1840