SS Mohegan
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SS Mohegan was a steamer which sank off the coast of the Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall, on her second voyage. She hit The Manacles on 14 October 1898 with the loss of 106 out of 157 on board.
Captain Richard Griffith, commander of the Mohegan on her last voyage
Wreck of Mohegan off the Manacles
The recovered bodies are buried in a mass grave
Antimony
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Antimony is a chemical element with the symbol Sb and atomic number 51. A lustrous grey metal or metalloid, it occurs in nature mainly in the form of the sulfide mineral stibnite. Antimony compounds h
SS Mohegan
…1898, under the command of the 42-year-old Captain Richard Griffith. She carried 97 crew and 7 cattlemen, along with 1,280 tons of spirits, beer, and antimony. At Gravesend 57 passengers were taken on board. She arrived off Dover at 7:30 that evening, dropping her pilot. A report on the progress so far from…
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Native antimony with oxidation products
Stibnite, China CM29287 Carnegie Museum of Natural History specimen on display in Hillman Hall of Minerals and Gems
The Italian metallurgist Vannoccio Biringuccio described a procedure to isolate antimony in 1540.