“to the memory of Capt. Elisha Lindsay Halsey of Charleston South Carolina, U.S.A. who came to an untimely death on board the ship Thomas Bennett in the Bay of Biscay August VIIIth MDCCCXLIV aged XLVI years. This monument was erected to his memory by American ship-masters and a few friends in Liverpool”. Captain Halsey had been stabbed to death by the ship’s cook, who was later discharged after a verdict of “justifiable homicide” by way of self defence.
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