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Sable Island 12th Sep.r 1853

Sir

Captain Kinney of the Sch.r "Isabella Maria" of Barrington has reported to me that on the morning of Sunday the 4th Instant while lying at anchor off the Southern side of the East End of this Island he discovered a Ship ashore on the N E bar and that he immediately weighed anchor made sail and proceeded there to render assistance, and found the ship to be the "Empire City" of and for New York from Liverpool with 300 passengers and had struck on the Southern side of the bar at or about day dawn that morning and that himself and crew assisted the Captain and crew of the ship to get her off the bar and they succeeded in getting her afloat at Ten O'Clock A M, for which services the Captain of the ship gave him Thirty pounds sterling and then proceeded onward for New York the ship apparently not having received much damage.

On the morning of the 4th we had a fresh breeze of wind at West and fog with some considerable sea running, and through the day the wind increased and hauled WNW with thick fog consequently the ship was not seen by the people at the Eastern Station.

Great praise is due to Captain
Kinney