Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-01-21
TIE CITY OF NASSAU.
spars That May be Hers Above tIfv'ws-
ter OF Body Island.

tNA III DONI A8A4hNs
The steamer City of Nassau. which
sailed from Philadelphia for Jacksonville
on Dee. d, has been given up by her own
ers as lost. There is a belief among pilots
and shipping men that the spars and up
per deck of sunken steamer reported by
the schooner Wilson II Hunting TO be
lying about ID miles north by east from
Body island on the North Carolina coast,
are those OF the missing vessel.
The City OF Nassau passed out OF the
Delaware river on the day before Christ
mas. Two days afterwards she was
sighted by two different vessels of VIM
ter Quarter shoals standing of against
gale that blew 20 miles an hour. Since
then nothing has ever been seen or heard
OF her, and even those who were the most
sanguine in their belief that she would
yet reach port, have given her up. None
OF her brave crew or II men have ever
been heard from, and no hope is now en-
tertained for their safety. They are be-
lieved to have gone down with the vessel.
II was thought by good many at the
time that the vessel sighted by the orig
''Sarah +. Kennedy of Hatteras shoals
in the terrific gale that swept the Virginia
and Carolina coasts on Dec. 70 and 81.
was the Inflated steamer, II it was, it
was probably but short time before she
went down. She was then labOring very
heavily. Nothing that Is known 10 have
belonged 10 the City Of Nassau has ever
been found washed ashore. II she mad
broken up pieces Of her wreck would very
likely have been found; bat not so much
as a spar or "a piece of plank has come up
from the sea to tell the story Of her disap-
pearance.
The City Of Nassau was a new steamer.
II was on her first voyage that she sailed
from Philadelphia. The mystery that
surrounds her disappearance may be
solved when the wreck off Body Island is
investigated. An Old pilot said yesterday
that he had no doubt that when examined
il would be found to be that of the lost
steamer. The topmasts and upper decks
Of the sunken vessel were seen rising
ABOVE the water by the officers OF the Wal
son Il Hunting.
The Nassau was due at Jacksonville on
Dec q. For a week or more when she
did not arrive it was thought that she had
gone TO sea to get out of the storm, and
no great anxiety was felt, but when after
three weeks nothing was heard of her
this side OF Hatteras, her owners looked
upon her as lost. Mi. Smith. one Of her
owners in jacksonville, upon being asked
the other day If ne had given the steamer
up for good said: yes, from an that we
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"a hope OF her safety. In my opinion she
has gone down and all on board have
been LOST
In regard to continuing the line be-
tween Jacksonville and Nassau Mr.
smith said that while her owners are per-
fectly satisfied in their own minds that
the City Of Nassau has gone down they
are not positively certain OF it, aud rs
they cannot now build vessel In time
for tins seasons business, they will wait
while longer until every vestige Of hope
for the safety Of the Nassau has disap-
peared, and by commencing next spring,
they will have a new vessel completed IN
time for the opening of the trade early
in the fail