Saturday, April 27, 2019

Vigilant (1790s Baltimore schooner)

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'''''Vigilant''''' was an American schooner, that carried the mail and passenger traffic between St. Croix and St. Thomas in the Danish West Indies in the 19th and the first decade of the 20th century. Famous Captain [[Thomas Boyle]] commanded her in 1803-1804.

In the night of September 13, 1876, while at anchor at [[Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands|Christiansted]], ''Vigilant'' sank during a hurricane.  She was raised in October 1876 and repaired by Captain Pentheny. Again in October, 1916, a hurricane took her to the bottom and again she was raised and repaired. On September 12, 1928, she sank again during a severe hurricane in Christiansted Harbor, St. Croix in the [[United States Virgin Islands|U.S. Virgin Islands]]. That time she was beyond repair. <ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>


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