Name/Title
"Terrible Collision Between the Steamboats Stonington and Narragansett"Entry/Object ID
2021.201Description
Currier & Ives print of the collision of the steamers STONINGTON and NARRAGANSETT, which occured 11:30 pm, Friday, June 11, 1880 off Cornfield Light in Long Island Sound.
"The Stonington was on her way to New York, and the Narragansett from New York bouch to Stonington, Conn., with a large number of passengers. The Narragansett sank to the main deck within ten minutes after the shock, and, her upper deck works taking fire, she was speedily enveloped in flames. It is supposed that more than fifty lives were lost by this disaster."