1870-1879
Beard, Daniel C. “The Sea Serpent Accounted for.” Scientific American. v45 Dec. 27, 1879 p415.
Multiple witnesses describe their sighting of the Sandy Hook monster. Comparisons are drawn to sightings of giant cephalopods.
Buckland, Frank. “The Sea Snake Again.” Land and Water. Apr. 9, 1870 p254.
Buckland examines a sighting by Captain Slocum, of the ship Saladin, on a voyage to New York from Hayti (Haiti).
Cobbin, J. Nature. v6 June 13, 1872 p130.
From the ship, Silvery Wave, Cobbin had seen 3 serpents on his trip from London. The creature was ‘at least one thousand yards long’ and had a ‘horny crest’.
Dyer, Hugh Mcn. “The Mythical Sea Serpent?” Hardwick’s Science Gossip (London). v12n143 1876 p260.
Commander Dyer of the ship Torch reports seeing an encounter with a whale and a serpent. We was accompanied by Captain Nelson of the Druid and Commander Stephens of the Bittern.
Francis supplies an account given to him by Jouass on a sighting near Lothbeg.
The anonymous author wants a Latin name for the sea serpent. He also briefly describes a sighting by an unknown captain and his men on their voyage from Hong Kong.
This very brief article makes mention of a sighting off the east coast of South America from the ship Pauline.
A ship by the name of Sea Serpent had a sighting on their passage from New York to China. Captain White judged the creature to be 55 feet long and 2 feet in diameter.
“Stories from the Sea.”The Manchester Guardian (England) Sept. 25, 1879.
The crew of a Norwegian barque, Columbia, was picked up by Captain Deddes and the P. Caland. The crew explained that their ship had struck a mighty serpent. A second report comes in from Captain J.F. Cox of the Privateer. When the ship was west of Brest (France), he had seen a giant serpent heading towards his ship.