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THE ALBANY
CREW LIST FOUND
Between 15 November 1848 and the latter part of 1853, the sloop of war made three more extended deployments in the Caribbean-West Indies area as a unit of the Home Squadron. On 12 December 1853, Albany set sail from Boston, Mass., on the final mission of her career. After several months sailing among the islands of the West Indies and along the coast of Central America, she departed Aspinwall, Colombia (now Colon, Panama) on 29 September 1854. She was never heard from again and was listed as lost at sea with all hands.
I find it very hard to understand why there is no record of the 23 Marines and 156 seamen who died aboard The Albany. Yes, the 18 officers are listed but the rest are not to be found. They were fathers, husbands, sons, friends, suitors, nephews, uncles of someone. Who claimed a widows pension from the government? So far as I have seen No One. I find it so very odd that I can find no newspaper article or obit naming anyone. So far not even an entry in a family genealogy. Did no one ask,"Where is my son, father or husband?"
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