New York, 1895
The old oaken Yankee clipper Seth Low, after triumphing over the storms of many seas in her wanderings of thirty-five years, lies a wreck on the sands just east of Fire Island. Albert Dottridge, the son of her New England skipper, and her cook, Joseph Johnston, were swept into the frosty breakers and lost before the life savers could get to the wreck. The captain and the two others of the crew were saved. The Low broke from her tow on Sunday and drifted about until Monday, when she went ashore on Short Beach.
—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, N.Y., Jan. 18, 1895, p. 1.
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