The Apia hurricane took the lives of fifty-one U.S. Sailors and Marines, forty-three from USS Vandalia, seven from USS Nipsic and one on board USS Trenton. Among those lost with the Vandalia was her Commanding Officer, Cornelius M. Schoonmaker. Over ninety Germans were also lost, twenty on the Adler and about seventy-one on the Eber. Only one officer and four men survived the loss of the latter ship.
After the storm, men from Vandalia and Trenton were housed ashore in the eastern part of Apia, with a strong guard of U.S. Marines to keep them separated from German survivors encamped to the west of the town. Most crewmen from Nipsic soon were returned to their ship. Led by their officers, among them Rear Admiral Lewis A. Kimberly, Captain Norman Farquhar (Trenton's Commanding Officer), and Commander Dennis Mullan (Nipsic's Commanding Officer), the U.S. personnel were kept busy in salvage work until they were taken from the island. All of the Vandalia's men and most of those from Trenton left on board the steamship Rockton on 1 May 1889, en route to San Francisco, California.
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For list of all U.S. Navy personnel lost in the Apia Hurricane,
see the "Frequently Asked Questions" entry:
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see:
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Page made 24 March 2002
Text added 7 April 2002