Eight days before, the steamship Golden Rule with more than 600 passengers and crew was on a run from New York City to Colón, Panama when she hit a reef in the southern Caribbean. The people aboard evacuated to the small coral island of El Ronconor, "the Snorer."  They remained there until relief vessels arrived, alerted to their difficulties by a boat the Golden Rule sent to Colón. No injuries were reported.  (By John Osborne)

The steamship Golden Rule with more than 600 passengers and crew was on a run from New York City to Colón, Panama when she hit a reef in the southern Caribbean. The people aboard evacuated to the small coral and sand island of El Ronconor, "the Snorer."  They remained there until June 7, 1865 when relief vessels arrived, alerted to their difficulties by a boat the Golden Rule sent to Colón. No injuries were reported.  (By John Osborne)

Admiral Louis Goldsborough left the U.S. Navy's Brooklyn Yard in New York aboard the U.S.S. Colorado to take up the command of the navy's European Squadron.  Included in the fleet, operating in the Mediterranean, were the Colorado as flagship, and the U.S.S. Kearsarge, the U.S.S. Niagara, and the U.S.S. Sacramento, all veterans of the recent conflict at sea.  Goldsborough, incidentally, was fluent in Spanish and French.  (By John Osborne)