The Tolomeo

Locke, D. J.

The bark Tolomeo was discovered aground on a point of the Florida reef, near Tortugas, and boarded by the libellants’ crews of four smacks, who found her abandoned and on fire, burning fore and aft, the cabin and much of the deck having been burned and fallen in. Having nothing but a few ordinary buckets, they could do nothing towards putting out the flames, but carried out an anchor to prevent the vessel drifting off, cut the of the *498only standing mast so that it went oyer the side, and out two holes in her that she might fill with water. The fire consumed everything above the…