Abstract Correspondence, depositions, newspapers and clippings, petitions, court orders, memoranda; and printed testimony, bills, and acts, relating to claims filed before the Alabama Claims Court by Richards for losses suffered during the Civil War. Chief parties were the whaling bark PEARL, of New London, Connecticut, destroyed by the C.S.S. SHENANDOAH at Ascension Island, 1865; the whaling bark RICHMOND, of New Bedford, Mass., which was compelled to return crew to Honolulu from vessels taken by...

Abstract Materials, collected by Don Treworgy of Mystic Seaport Museum, relating to the loss of the sail training vessel and the subsequent reaction of ASTA, the media, next-of-kin, and the sailing community. Includes documents of ASTA, chiefly relating to the MARQUES accident, including official statement by Henry H. Anderson, Jr. and copies of court depositions and decisions in the various resulting lawsuits; papers of Treworgy, including his correspondence with ASTA, attorneys, Bermuda...