The New York Times is an American daily newspaper which began publishing in 1851 and continues to this day. It has won more Pulitzer Prizes than any other newspaper, and has the 3rd-largest circulation in the United States.
This item about a Newf being among the survivors of a shipwreck appeared in the October 1, 1883, issue. This particular shipwreck attracted a great deal of frenzied media attention. The doomed vessel, the Proteus, was sailing into Arctic waters in an attempt to get provisions to the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition, a scientific expedition led by Liet. Adolphus Greely of the U. S. Army Signal Corp. The expedition was desperately in need of supplies; the previous year, the ship sent to resupply them had been unable to reach the expedition due to ice and weather. The sinking of the Proteus meant that Greely's expedition (21 men), was running out of food and other supplies, so they abandoned their station and attempted to make their way south, though they had only small boats and faced difficult winter conditions. Only seven of the men survived to be eventually rescued.
