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Wednesday, 5 March 2014

Bark ship Wilhelmina struck in ice during months according to the Dutch newspaper Weekblad van Den Helder en het Nieuwediep dated 25 May 1857

An item reported that the bark ship Wilhelmina captain Feuschaw which left on 2 January Riga was forced a day later off Domesness by a heavy Northern snow and snow to return. Not able to reach Boldera on time the ship was captured by the ice and floating during the next three months in the Gulf of Livland [Livonia] unable to free herself. A part of her cargo was unloaded on the ice for the wood stored below needed as fuel wood. Not earlier as on 2 April was the ice loosing her grip and was men able to get free of it arriving safely on the 23rd at Travemunde.