On three several hurricanes of the Atlantic, and their relations to the northers of Mexico and Central America, with notices of other storms / by W.C. Redfield.

  • William C. Redfield
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1846
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Credit: On three several hurricanes of the Atlantic, and their relations to the northers of Mexico and Central America, with notices of other storms / by W.C. Redfield. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    32. St. Augustine, lat. 29° 53', Ion. 77° 1', Oct. 4th, E., rain a. m. ; 5th, great gale from the E. and heavy rain. During the evening the wind varied from S. E. to S., and continu- ed with increased violence during the night. Early on the 6th, the wind hauled round to the west, and somewhat abated j but about ten at night it shifted to due N., and blew much severer than had been experienced for years; 7th, >i. E., rain ; 8th, N. E., cloudy; 9th, S., fair.—{Meteorological Reports to the Surgeon General.) Having crossed the peninsula of Florida with the gale, we again take up the Marine Reports. 33. Capt. Liot, superintendent of the West India line of R. M. steam-ships, informs me that on his return from Nassau (N. P.) to Havanna, after dispatching the Isis, [see 56,] he encountered this gale in some force, on the Bahama Bank. Barque Effort, from S. side of Cuba through the strait of Florida, took the gale on the 6th, lat. at noon, 27° 17', Ion. 79° 30'. At 8 p. m., wore ship and hove to on starboard tack, wind then about N. W. The gale lasted till midnight of the 7th, between N. W. and N. N. W.—{Statement of Capt. Davis.) [This vessel, aided by the Florida stream, run into the gale after it entered upon the Atlantic, and being under the lee of the peninsula, would be measurably protected from the right hand winds of the gale, but would encounter it in severity from N. W., as the gale becorao more advanced. It is usual for vessels coming through the strait of Florida, to keep the Gulf Stream as far as Hatteras, unless driven out of it by stress of weather.] 34. Brig Delaware had the gale severe on the 6th, lat. 28° 57', Ion. 79° 27'. 35. Packet Hayne, bound south, had a hurricane on the 6th and 7th, from all points of the compass, and was hove on her beam ends: lat. 29° 30', Ion. 80° 30'. 36. Brig Caspar Hauser sailed from Matanzas, Oct. 2d; took the gale on the 5th, lat. 30°, Ion. 80°, and on the 6th it increased to a complete hurricane. During the night the gale raged with great violence, making a complete breach over the vessel, which had now sprung a leak. On the 7th, while the gale was still blowing, the crew were taken off by Capt. Huffing ton, of the barque Cowper, which also suffered in the gale. The Caspar Hauser had the gale at N. E., veering to N. W. [This shows the brig to have been in the left side of the storm, or N. W. of its axis line.] 37. Schr. Maria had the gale from northeastward ; was hove on beam ends on the 6th, lat. 30° 30', Ion. 80°. 38 a. Barque Virginia was dismasted in the gale and abandoned on the 7th, in lat. 30° 30', Ion. 78° 36' (?) Gale commenced Oct. 5th, from S. E., and continued increasing till noon ; then moderated, to 4 p. m. ; when it again came out in a tremendous squall from N. E., and continued till noon of the 6th; when, being water-logged, the officers and crew took to the long boat, and were taken up at 4 p. m. by schr. Maria, [last mentioned.] The gale continued through the night of the 6th, and moderated afternoon of the 7th.—{Statement of Thomas Taber, mate of the Virginia.) 38 o. Brig Florida Banca, Oct. 4th, had the wind at E. N. E., veering to E. by S.; lat. at noon, 30° 10', Ion. 79° 15'. Oct. 5th, the gale became severe; lat. 31° 44', Ion. 78° 25'; p. m., gale E. N. E., veering to N. E. Oct. 6th, had the very hardest of the gale, from N. N. E.; lat. 31° 31', Ion. 79° 38'. Oct. 7th, wind north, lat. 31° 30', Ion. 79° 3'; wind aba- ting and hauled to the northwestward.—{Journal of Capt. Eldridge.) 39. Brig Peru, from New Orleans for Baltimore, took the gale in lat. 32° from E. N. E., which veered to W. N. W. 40. Brig J. A. Lancaster, for Savannah, took the gale Oct. 5th, ten miles south of Tybee light, [lat. 32°,] carried away spars, and was drifted as far south as lat. 28° 30', and was in seven fathoms water off Cape Carnavaral. 41. At St. Mary's, Georgia, lat. 30° 44', Ion. 81° 42', during the gale the waters rose ve- ry high; the streets near the river being several feet under water. 42. At Savannah, Georgia, lat. 32° 8', Ion. 81° 10', Oct. 4th, wind E., fair. On the af- ternoon of the 5th, the wind commenced blowing hard from S. E. and E., with rain, until about 4 or 5 p. m., when it shifted to N. E., and increased in violence during the night to a hurricane, and continued, with torrents of rain, to 5 or 6 p. m. of the 6th. On the 7th, wind N. E., fair. 8th, the same.