Rector Elwell wrote an account of the wreck of the Bohemian for the Portland Transcript, which was published on March 5th, 1864. “On Saturday we visited the scene of the wreck. The distance from the city is about nine miles. As you pass to the left of the two light houses, the wreck lies in full view, a quarter of a mile from the shore, heading off, with anchors down. She is right under the light-house, and off against a little cove, where the waves were gently rippling over the sands as if they never knew storm or wreck. It was high tide, and her hull was hidden by the waves, but we could see the smoke stack, the masts with broken topmasts dangling from them, and the white stanchions, looking like the ribs of some stranded monster.”

Ship Name: Bohemian

Tonnage: 2,200 Tons

Ship Type: Iron Hulled Screw Steamship

Year Built: 1859

Nationality: United Kingdom 

Year Wrecked: 1864

Location Wrecked: Cape Elizabeth, Maine, United States 

Reason for Wreck: Navigational Error in Fog 

Lives Lost: Between 20-50 

Sources: 

https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3055496/3055498/13/bohemian?from=search

https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3400836/3400838/8/bohemian?from=search

https://newspaperarchive.com/portland-daily-press-apr-05-1864-p-2/

https://newspaperarchive.com/philadelphia-age-feb-27-1864-p-2/

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1864/02/24/90528790.html?pageNumber=5

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