Ships News

Arrived at this place on Sunday morning, 26th instant. Barge Cincinnati, Beatle commander, from New Orleans, with a cargo of sugar, hides, logwood, crates, etc. — She sailed from New Orleans the 3rd of March, arrived at the Falls the 9th of May, 68 days — remained at the falls 9 days, and sailed from thence on the 17th instant. This is the first rigged vessel that ever arrived at Cincinnati from below. She is 100 feet keel, 16 feet beam — rigged sloop fashion, and burthen 65 tons. She was warped over the Falls by 18 men, in half a day.






How to cite this article:  "Ships News," Liberty Hall (Cincinnati, Ohio), 29 May 1811, p. 3, available at http://history.hanover.edu/texts/1811.


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