The wreck of the ''Bristol'' on
Far Rockaway Beach, near New York, United States, November 21, 1836, killed 60 to 70 people. Most of the deaths were due to huge waves that broke down the ship and drowned passengers sheltering in the hold. The captain, Alexander McKown, behaved admirably, did everything he could to save the surviving souls, and was the last person to leave the wreckage.
An obelisk marking the mass grave of the casualties of the wrecks of the ''Bristol'' and the ''
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
'' (January 1837), stands in
Rockville Cemetery
Rockville Cemetery and Bristol and Mexico Monument is a historic cemetery located at Lynbrook in Nassau County, New York. The cemetery started as a small local burial ground in 1799. It subsequently came to be the final resting place of many ea ...
, formerly Old Sand Hill Cemetery, in
Rockville, Long Island.
References
External links
LI Maritime Museum: ''Bristol'' (1836)
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Maritime incidents in November 1836
November 1836 events
1836 disasters in the United States
1836 in New York (state)
Maritime incidents in the United States
Shipwrecks of the New York (state) coast