Although she lived through three storms while at sea in a small rowboat, Tabby the cat never lost even one of her nine lives during her nine days in the Sandy Hook Bay.
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1897: The Great Sea Lion Escape From Glen Island on the Long Island Sound
Posted: 10th August 2021 by The Hatching Cat in Animal Attractions, Sea CreaturesTags: Carl Schurz Park, John Henry Starin, New Rochelle, New York History, Sea Lions, Starin's Glen Island
On August 13, 1897, a 13-year old boy named Willie Grogan was swimming in the East River off East 84th Street when he saw what he thought was a seven-foot sea serpent opposite East River Park (present-day Carl Schurz Park).
The sea serpent turned out to be one of the three sea lions that had escaped from Starin’s Glen Island resort on the Long Island Sound one day before.