The New York Times
Published July 11, 1879
CAPT. JAMES C. LUCE DEAD
THE COMMANDER OF THE LOST SHIP ARCTIC
James C. Luce was born at Rochester, Mass., in 1806. He began his seafaring life at the age of 16 years, and was put in command of a ship before he was 21. From that time up to 1850 he was a very successful commander. In that year on account of the eminence he had attained as a skillful navigator and able Captain, he was invited to take command of the Arctic. In this position he never met with an accident until May, 1854, when, as the Arctic was passing the southern coast of Ireland, on her homeward voyage, she struck on the the Tuscar rock, but was soon got off. Of the nine vessels that he commanded before taking the Arctic, seven were lost after he left them.
Capt. Luce was married twice. The first time, in 1833, to a Miss Leonard, of Massachusetts, who died in 1836, after having given birth to a son, Robert, now dead. In 1838 he married Miss Elizabeth Fearing, who survives him. The second wife was the mother of the child, Willie, who was lost in the Arctic disaster.
Excerpt from Academic dictionaries and encyclopedias...
The side-wheeler SS "Arctic" sank September 27 1854, off Cape Race, Newfoundland, after colliding with the 250 ton French iron screw steamer SS "Vesta" in the fog. A sister-ship to the SS "Pacific" that went into service in 1852, the 3,000-ton SS "Arctic" was at the time the largest and most splendid of the Collins Line steamships and was in operation in the Liverpool packet. Casualties included 92 of her 153 officers and men, and all her women and children passengers, including the wife, the only daughter, and the youngest son of Collins Line manager Edward Knight Collins. The total lost was near 400 souls.
There is a large monument in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York, dedicated to all who lost their lives.
Published July 11, 1879
CAPT. JAMES C. LUCE DEAD
THE COMMANDER OF THE LOST SHIP ARCTIC
James C. Luce was born at Rochester, Mass., in 1806. He began his seafaring life at the age of 16 years, and was put in command of a ship before he was 21. From that time up to 1850 he was a very successful commander. In that year on account of the eminence he had attained as a skillful navigator and able Captain, he was invited to take command of the Arctic. In this position he never met with an accident until May, 1854, when, as the Arctic was passing the southern coast of Ireland, on her homeward voyage, she struck on the the Tuscar rock, but was soon got off. Of the nine vessels that he commanded before taking the Arctic, seven were lost after he left them.
Capt. Luce was married twice. The first time, in 1833, to a Miss Leonard, of Massachusetts, who died in 1836, after having given birth to a son, Robert, now dead. In 1838 he married Miss Elizabeth Fearing, who survives him. The second wife was the mother of the child, Willie, who was lost in the Arctic disaster.
Excerpt from Academic dictionaries and encyclopedias...
The side-wheeler SS "Arctic" sank September 27 1854, off Cape Race, Newfoundland, after colliding with the 250 ton French iron screw steamer SS "Vesta" in the fog. A sister-ship to the SS "Pacific" that went into service in 1852, the 3,000-ton SS "Arctic" was at the time the largest and most splendid of the Collins Line steamships and was in operation in the Liverpool packet. Casualties included 92 of her 153 officers and men, and all her women and children passengers, including the wife, the only daughter, and the youngest son of Collins Line manager Edward Knight Collins. The total lost was near 400 souls.
There is a large monument in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York, dedicated to all who lost their lives.
The New York Times
Published July 11, 1879
CAPT. JAMES C. LUCE DEAD
THE COMMANDER OF THE LOST SHIP ARCTIC
James C. Luce was born at Rochester, Mass., in 1806. He began his seafaring life at the age of 16 years, and was put in command of a ship before he was 21. From that time up to 1850 he was a very successful commander. In that year on account of the eminence he had attained as a skillful navigator and able Captain, he was invited to take command of the Arctic. In this position he never met with an accident until May, 1854, when, as the Arctic was passing the southern coast of Ireland, on her homeward voyage, she struck on the the Tuscar rock, but was soon got off. Of the nine vessels that he commanded before taking the Arctic, seven were lost after he left them.
Capt. Luce was married twice. The first time, in 1833, to a Miss Leonard, of Massachusetts, who died in 1836, after having given birth to a son, Robert, now dead. In 1838 he married Miss Elizabeth Fearing, who survives him. The second wife was the mother of the child, Willie, who was lost in the Arctic disaster.
Excerpt from Academic dictionaries and encyclopedias...
The side-wheeler SS "Arctic" sank September 27 1854, off Cape Race, Newfoundland, after colliding with the 250 ton French iron screw steamer SS "Vesta" in the fog. A sister-ship to the SS "Pacific" that went into service in 1852, the 3,000-ton SS "Arctic" was at the time the largest and most splendid of the Collins Line steamships and was in operation in the Liverpool packet. Casualties included 92 of her 153 officers and men, and all her women and children passengers, including the wife, the only daughter, and the youngest son of Collins Line manager Edward Knight Collins. The total lost was near 400 souls.
There is a large monument in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York, dedicated to all who lost their lives.
Published July 11, 1879
CAPT. JAMES C. LUCE DEAD
THE COMMANDER OF THE LOST SHIP ARCTIC
James C. Luce was born at Rochester, Mass., in 1806. He began his seafaring life at the age of 16 years, and was put in command of a ship before he was 21. From that time up to 1850 he was a very successful commander. In that year on account of the eminence he had attained as a skillful navigator and able Captain, he was invited to take command of the Arctic. In this position he never met with an accident until May, 1854, when, as the Arctic was passing the southern coast of Ireland, on her homeward voyage, she struck on the the Tuscar rock, but was soon got off. Of the nine vessels that he commanded before taking the Arctic, seven were lost after he left them.
Capt. Luce was married twice. The first time, in 1833, to a Miss Leonard, of Massachusetts, who died in 1836, after having given birth to a son, Robert, now dead. In 1838 he married Miss Elizabeth Fearing, who survives him. The second wife was the mother of the child, Willie, who was lost in the Arctic disaster.
Excerpt from Academic dictionaries and encyclopedias...
The side-wheeler SS "Arctic" sank September 27 1854, off Cape Race, Newfoundland, after colliding with the 250 ton French iron screw steamer SS "Vesta" in the fog. A sister-ship to the SS "Pacific" that went into service in 1852, the 3,000-ton SS "Arctic" was at the time the largest and most splendid of the Collins Line steamships and was in operation in the Liverpool packet. Casualties included 92 of her 153 officers and men, and all her women and children passengers, including the wife, the only daughter, and the youngest son of Collins Line manager Edward Knight Collins. The total lost was near 400 souls.
There is a large monument in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York, dedicated to all who lost their lives.
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