Steamer New England Sinks

Article taken from The Ohio Repository, March 20, 1850

Reported for the Ohio Repository, Cincinnati, March 18, 1850

The steamer New England No. 2, struck a snag as she was backing out from the landing at Portsmouth, yesterday morning, and sunk to within two feet of the hurricane deck: She was bound to Pittsburgh; no particulars are reported: Several of the deck passengers were drowned.