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Attempt to Veer by Nicholas Pocock.
“The Fore-stay-sail hoisted, is split in pieces; the Head-Yards are  braced aback; and, lastly, the mizenmast is cut away, and dragging by  the wreck of the rigging.” From the National Maritime Musem
The sinking of the Central America was international news. Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly and other newspapers published artists’ re-creations of the tragedy.