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| | John Gilpin / Wild Wave |
 | | Back at New York some of the crew brought charges against their captain whom they felt could have reached the Falkland Islands that were 150-miles away if her captain had called for such an action as well as sounded the pumps earlier in the day. |
 | | The entire 22 member crew, three mates and captain aboard the John Milton, a medium clipper, were not so lucky when on the morning of February 20, 1858, after enduring a night of terrible winter storms, the John Milton struck a rock off Montauk, Long Island, and came apart. |
 | | She was laden with a supply of fruit, chickens and goat meat; and soon after noon, June 4th, she set sail for Tahiti under jib, foresail and mainsail, with the treasure also on board. |
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