Melancholy shipwreck
Subtitle: The following lines were occasioned by the loss of the schooner Charles, Captain Adams, of Portland, who was wrecked on Richmond's Island, near the entrance of Portland harbor, on the night of the 12th of July, 1807, which schooner had on board 22 persons, 16 of whom perished
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1807
Place of publication: Portland, Me
Language: eng
Subjects: Charles (Schooner); Poetry; Shipwrecks; Disasters; Death
Other titles: Come all kind husbands now behold.
Notes: Poetry.

Sheet contains three poems.

Printed area of this poem measures: 39.4 x 15.7 cm.

Poem in 29 stanzas printed in two columns surrounded and separated by mourning border; sixteen coffins at head; prose passage above lower border describes wreck.

At end of poem: Portland, July 14, 1807.

Author's name not on item but printed on separate broadside editions of this poem.

Not in Shaw & Shoemaker.

With: Shaw, Thomas. Mournful song -- Shaw, Thomas. Melancholy song. Part II. Intended to be separated.

First line: Come all kind husbands now behold.