Dear Bob, thank you for enlightning our German friend from Michelsberg. You did a terrific job - and of course, in the meantime you realized that you quoted the wrong ship which went down during that awful hurricane on 15 Sep. 1779 - it was the "Adamant' with a company of soldiers of the Hessen-Kassel Regiment v. Lossberg. Anyone wants to know more about this tragedy, just put the name Adamant into the search engine of this mail list. Thanks Bob, and thanks to the Vickerson's Yours John Merz