Shipwrecks of the Florida Keys - March 15th

Today there were two shipwrecks in the Florida Keys. One was in 1845. The brig Hayne was bound from Charleston for Havana. The Hayne wrecked five miles south-southeast of Cape Florida with a cargo of rice. The wreckers were awarded $1,000 even though the vessle was lost. Thirty-one years later, in 1876, the ship Athenais was on the Quicksands.