The ship left New Orleans headed for New York carrying $80,000 in goods and crew and passengers totaling 51 individuals.

[5] The ship was caught in a gale off Mantoloking in Ocean County, New Jersey shore, 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Squan inlet.

[7] The disaster was immortalized in an 1846 hand-colored lithograph, Pilots' Monument, by Currier and Ives.

[9] The reports prompted the New Jersey Senate to appoint a commission to investigate the validity of the claims.

[10] The 1846 wreck sparked the development of the United States Life-Saving Service, an agency that would assist shipwrecked crews and passengers.