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The Angel Gabriel was a 240-ton English passenger galleon. She was commissioned for Sir Walter Raleigh's last expedition to America in 1617. She sank in a storm off Pemaquid Point, near the newly established town of Bristol, Maine, on 15 August 1635. [1] [2] The sinking occurred during a hurricane in the middle of the Great Migration.
The Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635 was an extraordinarily powerful and devastating Atlantic hurricane that brushed Colonial Virginia and struck the New England Colonies in late August 1635. Accounts of the storm are very limited, but it was likely the most intense hurricane to hit New England since European colonization.
A State Historic Site exists close by that features artifacts from Colonial Pemaquid, where a small colony of English settlers was formed in 1635 after their ship, the Angel Gabriel, was wrecked by the Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635. [10]
The Great Colonial Hurricane on August 15, 1635 sank the galleon Angel Gabriel while it was anchored off the settlement, drowning some crew and passengers. In 1664, the Duke of York (the future King James II) claimed Pemaquid was within his patent, which also included Sagadahoc and recently acquired New Amsterdam.
John Cogswell (1592–1669) was a leading figure and large landowner in the early history of Ipswich, Massachusetts and a deputy for the General Court of Massachusetts.He is the immigrant ancestor to a large number of notable Americans as well as connected the Aristocracy of Britain and the British Royal family as the 10th Great Grandfather to Diana, the Princess of Wales.
Depending on what path it takes, Hurricane Milton, which is expected to make landfall on Wednesday, Oct. 8, is poised to be the costliest disaster in Florida’s history, says Morales.
Before Hurricane Milton crashed in Florida this week, Hurricane Helene hit the Southeastern U.S. hard, leaving widespread destruction in its wake. Derek Roberts, the mayor of Newland, North ...
Ahead of the 2007 hurricane season, the Central Pacific Hurricane Center (CPHC) introduced a revised set of Hawaiian names for the Central Pacific, after they had worked with the University of Hawaii Hawaiian studies department to ensure the correct meaning and appropriate historical and cultural use of the names. [46]