Sunken Treasure 1877 - Sealed Bottle Lubin Perfume

Liverpool & Great Western S.N. Co. (Guion Line); 1874; Palmers Co; 4.332 tons; 14 knots; compound engines.

The Dakota, and her sistership the Montana, were experimental vessels built witha view to securing for her owners the Blue Riband of the Atlantic. The engines were an unusual design and the hulls were constructed with a ''tumble home'', similar to that which distinguished the old wooden line-of-battleship. The vessels failed to achieve success either as record breakers or as good passenger ships, and their ultimate loss was a benefit rather than a disaster to their owners. The Dakota was wrecked off Anglesey on May 9th, 1877. By a strange coincidence the ship struck at a point not many miles from where the Montana was to founder three years later. The veseel left Liverpool for America on the evening of the 9th under Captain Price with 218 passengers and 109 crew, and 1.800 tons of general cargo. At 9.30 pm, when abreast of Port Lynas Light, the captain gave order to port the helm. This order was misunderstood and the helm was put to starboard, thus throwing the vessel off her course. This mistake was noticed too late and although the engines ware reversed the Dakota stranded at the East Mouse, near Amlwch and not far from Anglesey. All those on board got off in safety, but the ship broke in two the next day and became a total wreck