File:Rescue of the clipper Tejuca's crew by the ship Excelsior, 1856.jpg
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English: The rescue of the clipper ship Tejuca's crew by the ship Excelsior (right) during a hurricane on the Atlantic in January 1856. Excelsior's captain was later given an award for gallantry for the rescue. Tejuca was a small 470-ton clipper ship built in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1854. From a painting by Thomas Pitman. |
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| Source | Lindsey, Benjamin J. (1915). Old Marblehead Sea Captains and the Ships in Which They Sailed. Marblehead, Massachusetts: Marblehead Historical Society. p. 70. |
| Author | Thomas Pitman |
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