Treasures From The Sea
by Doug MacGillvary
Reprinted from "INSULATORS - Crown Jewels of the Wire", August 1979, page 8
The following article appeared in The Hartford Courant Monday
morning, January 12, 1874, on page 3 in the "By Telegraph" column
under the sub heading THE SOUTH:
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Steamship Sherman Sinks
WILMINGTON, N.C. Jan.
11 -- The Steamship Sherman from New York for New Orleans spring a leak on the 6th
inst., at 2 p.m. and sank yesterday in ten fathoms of water twelve miles south
of Little River bar. The captain, crew, and all the passengers were saved, as
was also a considerable portion of the luggage and cargo. The steamship was
owned by Frederick Baker of New York. She was built in Glasgow and was formerly
owned in Boston.
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Typical of the insulators recovered from the Sherman.
Their
home for over 100 years was not too kind.
Many are fractured or chipped. Still
some survived very well.
Two coral and shell covered CD 728's, with a
well embossed cobalt Tillotson in the center.
A beautiful cobalt and light aqua
Tillotson with coral covered 728's.
The coral cleans off easily, but seems to
take away the charm of the insulators.
The treasures of the Sherman.
A CD 728 No
Name, aqua; CD 731 cobalt Tillotson; and an aqua Tillotson.
The majority of the
insulators from the Sherman were 728 No Names.
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