LOST AT SEA.

Here is a list of men and ships that were lost at sea. This page is to help those looking for a ship name or a owner of a ship. This information comes from the library of congress, some of the information will be in what I call one liners, these just means that the info will only be a line or two. Even so this info can give you a lead were to look next. All this information is to give you leads on were to start your next search.

Now I’m not going to say that there is any more information on these names, but I’m not saying there’s not. If you see a name of a person or ship you may request a look up. My address can be found in my profile.
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Joshua Hatch.

A BILL
FEBRUARY 26, 1836.

For the relief of Joshua Hatch and others, interested in a fishing vessel which was lost at sea.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled, That the collector of the port of Boston and Charlestown be, and he hereby is, directed to pay to Joshua Hatch and to the heirs at law or legal representatives of the officers and crew of the schooner Joseph, late of Boston, lost on a fishing voy7 age, such a sum as said vessel would have been entitled to receive as a bounty, if she had regularly completed her fishing season; she being of the burden of fifty-nine tons twenty-seven one-hundredths of a toll; which sum shall be distributed in the same manner and proportions as the law would have distributed the bounty if said vessel had completed her fishing season.
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William Humphreys, jr.

A BILL
MARCH 31, 1S56.

For the relief of William Humphreys, jr., owner of fishing schooner “Good Exchange,” lost at sea.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the collector of customs for the district of Marblehead, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to William Humphreys, jr., the owner of the schooner “Good Exchange,” of ninety-four tons and thir7 ty-nine ninety-fifths of a ton burden, upon his showing sufficient authority from the heirs, or the legal representatives of each person interested, such a sum of money as said vessel would have been entitled to if she had been engaged in the cod flsheries for the “fishing term” of four months or more, to be distributed as the law provides; such vessel having been lost while engaged in that business during the fishing season of eighteen hundred and forth-five: provided, it shall be shown by sufficient proof that the master and three-fourths of the crew of the said “Good Exchange,” were citizens of the United States.
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Samuel Bragdon, David Chase.

CHAP. XIV.—An Act for the relief of Samuel Bragdon, David Chase, and the crew of the schooner Halcyon.

Be it enacted, &c., That the Collector of the Customs in Newbury port, state of Massachusetts, is hereby authorized to pay to Samuel Bragdon David Chase, and the officers and crew of the schooner Halcyon, which was lost at sea, to be distributed according to law, the same sum said vessel would have been entitled to receive as a bounty or drawback if she had safely arrived in port; having complied with all the requirements of law necessary to receive such bounty or drawback for having been engaged four months or more in the cod-fishery.
APPROVED, January 27, 1835.
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Charles Gordon .

CHAP. XV. — An Act for the relief of Charles Gordon and the crew of the schooner Two Sons.

Be it enacted, &c., That the Collector of the Customs for the district of Belfast, in the state of Maine, is hereby authorized to pay to Charles Gordon, owner of the fishing schooner Two Sons, of seventy-five tons burthen, and to the persons composing her late crew, such allowance, to be distributed according to law, as they would have been entitled to receive had she completed her fishing term; the said schooner having been driven on shore in a gale, by which she was prevented from accomplishing the full term required by law to entitle her to the bounty.
APPROVED, January 27, 1835.
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Samuel S. Lord .

CHAP. XVI.—An Act for the relief of Samuel S. Lord and the owners and crew of the fishing schooner Mary and Sally of York, in the state of Maine.

Be it enacted, &c., That the Collector of the Customs for the port of York, in the state of Maine, is hereby authorized to pay to Samuel S. Lord, master, and the owners and crew of the fishing schooner Mary and Sally, to be distributed according to law, the same said vessel would have been entitled to receive as a bounty or drawback, if she had been actually at sea during the whole time required by law to be entitled to said bounty, she having been lost before she had accomplished her full term required by law.
APPROVED, January 27, 1835.
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1852, The petition of Allen Lewis, owner of the fishing schooner Forrester, which was lost at sea, praying to be allowed fishing bounty.

1852, The petition of Ezekiel Holbrook and others, owners of the fishing schooner Grampus, which was lost at sea, praying to be allowed fishing bounty.

1852, The petition of John Cameron and others, owners of the fishing schooner Stephen C. Philips, which was lost at sea, praying to be allowed fishing bounty.

1792, A petition of Elizabeth Nelmes, widow of Jeremiah Nelmes, deceased, was presented to the House and read, praying the renewal of three final settlement certificates, the property of the deceased, which were lost at sea.

1780, William Livingston, in 1780 he was appointed a midshipman in the Continental Navy, and while serving on the Saratoga was lost at sea on March 18, 1781.
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Joshua T. Chase.

CHAP. XI.—.An .Act for lice relief of Joshua T. Chase and others.

Be it enacted, &.c., That the Collector of the Customs for the district of Portsmouth, in New Hampshire, is hereby authorized to pay to Joshua T. Chase John Dennett Joseph Todd, and Joseph Litchfield,jun., late owners of a fishing schooner, lost at sea, called the Betsey, of forty tons and seventy-six ninety-fifths of a ton burthen, and to the persons composing her late crew, such allowance, to be distributed according to law, as they would have been entitled to receive, had the said schooner completed her fishing term, and returned into port.
APPROVED, March 10, 1828.
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Philip Coombs.

CHAP. CXLII.—.An .Act for the relief of Philip Coombs, and others.

Be it enacted, &c., That the collector of the customs for the district of Newburyport, in Massachusetts is hereby authorized and directed to pay to Philip Coombs, late owner of a fishing schooner, lost at sea, called the John, of eighty-six tons burthen, and to the persons composing her late crew, such allowance, to be distributed according to law, as they would have been entitled to receive had the schooner completed her fishing term and returned into port: Provided, The collector shall besatisfied that every other provision of the laws regulating fishing vessels has been complied with by the master and owner of the said schooner.
APPROVED, May 24, 1828.
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Washington Seawell.

CHAP. XX. — An ct for tile relief of Lieutenant Washington Seawell.

Be it enacted, &.c., That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized and directed to credit Lieutenant Washington Seawell, any sum of money he may prove to the satisfaction of said Secretary, he had in his possession that belonged to the United States, and which he lost, without his fault, by the explosion of the steamboat Lioness, on Red river, on the nineteenth of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-three; not to exceed, in all, the sum of seven hundred and forty-nine dollars and seventy_ eight cents.
APPROVED, February 17, 1836.
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Knott Martin, 3d, and Arnold Martin.

CHAP. CXIV. — An Act for the relief of Knott Martin, 3d, and Arnold Martin, owners of the fishing schooner Only Son, and others.

Be it enacted, &c., That the collector of the customs for the district of Marblehead, in the state of Massachusetts, is hereby authorized to pay to Knott Martin 3d and Arnold Martin, late owners of a fishing schooner lost at sea, called the Only Son, burden sixty-eight tons and fifty-seven ninety-fifths, and to the legal representatives of the persons composing her late crew, such allowance, to be distributed according to law, as they would have been entitled to receive had the said schooner completed her fishing term, and returned into port.
APPROVED, March 3, 1843.
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Charles Gordon.

CHAP. CXXXIII.—An Act for the relief of Charles Gordon, owner of the schooner Two Sons, and the legal representatives of the crew of said vessel.

Be it enacted, &.c., That the collector of the port of Belfast, in the state of Maine, be authorized and directed to pay to Charles Gordon, owner of the schooner Two Sons, of Belfast, burden seventy-five andfifty-four ninety-fifths tons, such sum as he would have been entitled to as bounty had she completed her voyage, said vessel having been lost after having been employed in the fishing season upwards of three months; which sum shall be distributed according to law, among the heirs and legal representatives of the persons composing the crew of said vessel, in such proportions as said crew would have been entitled to if they had survived.
APPROVED, March 3, 1843.
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George Frazas.

CHAP. LXXI.—.An .Act for the relief of George Frazas, and others.

Be it enacted, &c., That the collector of the customs for the district of Plymouth, in Massachusetts, is hereby authorized to pay to George Frazar and others, late owners, and to the surviving heirs of the late crew, of the schooner Quero, of Duxbury, of sixty-one and thirty-six ninety-fifths tons burthen, which was lost on a fishing voyage in eighteen hundred and thirty-three, together with her late crew, such allowance, to be distributed according to law, as they would have been entitled to receive, had the said schooner completed her fishing term and returned into port.
APPROVED, March 3, 1837.
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1852, The petition of Joseph L. McDonald, of the State of Massachusetts, praying for an allowance of fishing bounty on the schooner Bloomfield
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Winthrop Sears.

CHAP’. LXXV.—.An .Act for the relief of Winthrop Sears and others.

Be it enacted, &c., That the collector at the port of Barnstable, in the state of Massachusetts, be authorized and directed to pay to Winthrop Sears, and the late owners, officers, and crew of the fishing schooner “Laban,” of eighty-seven and fourteen ninety-fifth tons burden, which sailed from Yarmouth, in said state, on the twenty-sixth day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, on a fishing voyage to the Grand Banks, and which was stranded on Sable Island about the sixth day of June of the same year, by which said schooner and all the salt on board were lost, the same she would be entitled to receive by law, as a bounty or drawback, for having been employed five months in the cod fisheries, and using foreign salt on which the duties had been paid; which said sum shall be distributed as the law respecting bounties provides.
APPROVED, April 20, 1838.
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Moses Merrill.

CHAP. CIX. — An Act for the relief of Moses Merrill and the fishermen of the schooner Fortune.

Be it enacted, 4c., That the collector of customs for the district of Newburyport in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, be, and hereby is, authorized and directed to pay to Moses Merrill, the agent of the schooner Fortune, of ninety-one tons and thirty-two ninety-fifths of a ton burden, upon his showing sufficient authority from each person interested, such a sum of money as said vessel would have been entitled to if she had been engaged in the cod-fisheries for the term of four months or more; to be distributed, five-eighths to the fishermen, and three eighths to the owners, as the law provides; said schooner having been accidentally lost while engaged in that business during the fishing season of eighteen hundred and thirty-five.
APPROVED, June 12, 1838.
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1856, The petition of Ferdinand N. Clark, praying for the refunding of duties paid upon a cargo shipped at the port of Charleston, South Carolina, on the Spanish brig Conde-de-Villanneva, which was lost at sea.
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1892, Naval Affairs be instructed to inquire into the expediency of granting to Mrs. Sophia Robinson, of St. Louis, the mother of the late Lieutenant Robinson of the United States' navy, believed to have been lost at sea in the United States' schooner "Sylph," months' pay; and, also, the same amount of pay to the surviving relations of the other officers and the crew lost in said vessel.
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Aaron Bellamy.

CHAP. LXIV.—An ,Act for the relief of , Aaron Bellamy.

Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Aaron Bellamy, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the sum of nine hundred dollars, the value of a vessel taken into the service of the United States during the late war, to transport a quantity of flour on Lake Champlain, without the knowledge or consent of the owner, and against the will and remonstrance of the master; but which will, if given at all, was by the threats and coercion of an officer in the service of the United States; the said vessel having been captured by the enemy while in said service.
APPROVED, June 19, 1834.
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William B. Doliber, Thomas R. Woodfin, Samuel Davis and Joseph Davis.


CHAP. CLXXXIV.—.An Act for the relief of William B. Doliber and others, Owners, and heirs of the crew of the schooner Mary and Hannah.

Be it enacted, &c., That the collector of the port of Marblehead, in the state of Massachusetts, be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to the widows of William B. Doliber, Thomas R. Woodfin, and Samuel Davis, and tile mother and heir at law of Joseph Davis, all late of Marblehead, and owners of the schooner Mary and Hannah, and the heirs of others of the crew of said schooner, which was lost at sea, to be distributed according to law, the same sum or bounty the owners and crew of said vessel would have been entitled to receive if the said schooner had arrived safely in port, after completing her fishing term, and complied with the laws necessary to secure such bounty.
APPROVED, June 30, 1834.
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Remington Arnold Jr., Arnold Smith.

CHAP. CCLXVUL—An .Act for the relief of the owners of the schooner Admiral.

Be it enacted, &c., That the collector of the district of Providence be, and he hereby is, authorized to pay to Remington Arnold, junior, and Arnold Smith, owners of the schooner Admiral, of Pawtuxet, of the burden of fifty-six tons, and to the persons composing the crew of the same, during the fishing season of the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, such allowance, to be distributed according to law, as they would have been entitled to receive if the fishing agreement had been made in the terms required by law: Provided, That the other requirements of the acts granting allowances to vessels concerned in the fisheries shall have been complied with.
APPROVED, June 30, 1834.
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John L. Bowman, and Enoch J. Noyes.

CHAP. LXXXII.—.An Act for the relief of John L. Bowman, and Enoch J. Noyes.

Be it enacted, &c., That the collector of the customs for the district of Passamaquoddy, in Maine, is hereby authorized to pay to John L. Bowman, and Enoch J. Noyes, owners of the fishing schooner called the George, of Eastport, in said district, of sixty-eight and thirty-eight ninety-fifths tons burthen, and to the persons composing her late crew, or their legal representatives, such allowance, to be distributed according to law, as they would have been entitled to receive if she had completed her fishing term; the said schooner having been totally lost in a gale, after having been employed more than two and a half months of the term required by law.
APPROVED, July 20, 1840.
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1852, The petition of John Starling and others, of Portland, in the State of Maine, praying for allowance of bounty to the owners of schooner Elizabeth, lost at sea
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Crosby Arey.

CHAP, XXXVI. — .An .Act for the relief of Crosby Arey.

Be it enacted, &c., That the Collector of the Customs for the district of Penobscot, in Maine, is hereby authorized to pay to Crosby Arey, owner of a fishing schooner, called the Burr, of twenty-one tons burthen, and to the persons composing her late crew, such allowance, to be distributed according to law, as they would have been entitled to receive had she completed her fishing term; the said schooner having been cast away, after having been employed more than two months of the term required by law.
APPROVED, February 19, 1833.
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1835, the petition of Joshua Hatch, owner of the fishing schooner Joseph, of Boston, which was lost at sea while pursuing a fishing voyage in 1825, praying to be allowed the same bounty to which he would have been entitled if his vessel had returned to the United States.
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1816, Naval Affairs be instructed to inquire into the expediency of providing by law for the settlement of the accounts of the officers and crew of the United States' brig Epervier, supposed to have been lost at sea.
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1856, The petition of John H. Scranton and James M. Hunt, praying compensation for a vessel which was lost at sea in consequence of injuries received while engaged in the rescue of the passengers and crew of the steamship Southerner, wrecked on the northwest coast of Washington Territory in the winter of 1854--5.
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1852, The petition of Charles Uhde and Company, praying the return or duties paid on certain cotton goods, shipped by them at New Orleans for Point Isabel, in Texas, and lost at sea
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1845, A petition of Glover Broughton, of Essex county, State of Massachusetts, praying to be allowed the bounty which would have been due the fishing schooner Tancred, had she completed her voyage, but which was lost at sea;
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1852, The petition of Benjamin F. Rollins and others, owners of schooner Medium, lost at sea, praying for an allowance of fishing bounty.
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1856, The petition of the owners of the schooner Uncle Amasa, lost at sea, praying for an allowance of bounty.
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1838, A petition of Joseph Holmes, praying the payment of the fishing bounty on the tonnage of a schooner supposed to be lost at sea.
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1856, the memorial of Atkins Eldridge, owner of the fishing schooner Brilliant, lost at sea, praying to be allowed fishing bounty.
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1851, the memorial of Eliza C. Bache, widow of George M. Bache, a lieutenant in the navy, praying that she may receive the same amount that was paid to the widows of those officers who were lost in the brig Somers
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1838, Military Affairs be instructed to inquire into the expediency of making provision for payment of the value of horses lost at sea by the Missouri volunteers, on their passage from New Orleans to Tampa Bay, in the month of November last.
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1834, A petition of Winslow L. Thacher, of Yarmouth, in the State of Massachusetts, owner of a fishing vessel which was lost at sea while engaged on a fishing voyage, praying to be allowed the bounty to which he would have been entitled if said vessel had completed her voyage and returned to port.
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1830, A petition of Josiah P. Creesy, of the State of Massachusetts, praying to be paid the bounty allowed on a vessel engaged in the cod fishery, his vessel having been lost at sea before completing the term required by law.
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Andrew Wilson.

CHAP. LXVII. —An Act for the relief of Andrew Wilson.

Be it enacted, 4’e., That the Collector of the Customs for the District of Newburyport, in Massachusetts, is hereby authorized to pay to Andrew Wilson, late owner of a fishing schooner, lost at sea, called the Betsey, of sixty-five tons and sixteen ninety_fifths of a ton biirthen, and to the persons composing her late crew, such allowance, to be distributed according to law, as they would have been entitled to receive, had the said schooner completed her fishing term and returned into port.
APPROVED, April 7, 1830.
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1852, The petition of Allison B. Huff, of the State of Maine, praying for bounty on schooner Store, which was lost at sea.
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1819, A petition of Martha Davis, widow of Benjamin Davis, and a petition of Sarah Adams, widow of Benj. Adams, who were lost at sea in the private armed ship Portsmouth, in the late war with Great Britain, respectively praying to be allowed the pension granted to the widows and orphans of seamen killed or lost in the private armed service of the United States.
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1856, The petition of G. W. Bluford, praying to be relieved from a judgment obtained against him for the value of certain pork belonging to the government, which he engaged to transport from Gosport, Virginia, to the Brooklyn navy yard, and which was lost at sea.
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Joseph B. Folsom.

CHAP. CLXX V. —.An .Act for the relief of Joseph B. Folsom and the owners and crew of the schooner Galaxy, of Bucksport, in the state of Maine.

Be it enacted, &.c., That the collector of the customs for the district of Penobscot, in the state of Maine, is hereby authorized and directed to pay to Joseph R. Folsom, the owners, master, and crew of the fishing schooner Galaxy, of Bucksport, to be distributed according to law, the same said vessel would have been entitled to receive as a bounty, or drawback, if she had been actually at sea during the whole time required by law to be entitled to said bounty, she having been lost before she had accomplished her full term required by law.
APPROVED, March 3, 1839.
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Joshua Atwood, junior.

CHAP. LX XII. — .An Act for the relief of Joshua .Atwood, junior.

Be it enacted, &’c., That the collector of the port of Barnstable, in Massachusetts, is hereby authorized to pay to Joshua Atwood, jr., and the other owners, officers, and crew of the schooner Abelino, of seventy-one rind twenty ninety-fifths tons burden, which was lost at sea, to be distributed according to law, the same sum they would have been entitled to receive, as bounty or drawback, if the said schooner had completed her fishing term, arid returned to port.
APPROVED, July 27, 1842.
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1868, The memorial and proofs of claim of the town of Queensburg, State of New York, praying for reimbursement for United States treasury notes lost at sea, by the sinking of the steamer Melville
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1852, The petition of Thomas E. Oliver, praying that the bounty on drawback from salt exported in the schooner Harvest Home, which was lost at sea, be refunded to him.
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1852, The petition of Ebon F. Haskell and Amos Howard, owners of schooner Reward, of Deer island, praying an allowance of fishing bounty on said schooner, she having been lost at sea after completing her time of fishing.
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1840, A petition of Elizabeth Sweatt, of Charlestown, in the State of Massachusetts, praying for arrears of pension, as the only surviving child of Benjamin Richards, deceased, who was lost at sea in the United States brig Pickering.
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1824, A petition of Otis Pendleton and Harris Pendleton, of that state, praying to be allowed the bounty granted by law on a fishing voyage, which was commenced in their vessel called the Elizabeth, which was lost at sea.
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1856, William McKenney, praying that the act of July 27, 1854, for the relief of the widows and orphans of the officers and seamen of the United States schooner Grampus, lost at sea, may be so construed as to extend relief to him.
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1856, The petition of Catharine Rodgers, of Reading, State of Pennsylvania, praying for the payment of moneys that may be due to her son, Michael Rodgers, one of the crew of the United States, ship Albany, which was lost at sea