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• despite being the first official Atlantic hurricane season on record, the 1851 Atlantic hurricane season included a hurricane that is tied for the longest on record for the period prior to 1870?
• the damaged and demasted brig Polly drifted over six months and more than 2,000 miles (3,200 km) across the Atlantic with its surviving crew?
• although Lookdown are common in tropical Atlantic waters, they are rarely seen in the Greater Antilles?
• Lady Elsie Mackay, socialite, actress and interior designer, died in 1928 with WWI ace Walter G. R. Hinchcliffe, attempting to be the first woman to fly across the Atlantic?
• Cleopatra's Barge (pictured), built for the Crowninshield family in 1816, became the Royal Yacht of King Kamehameha II and the first American pleasure craft to sail across the Atlantic?
• Subtropical Storm One in 1978 is the only Atlantic subtropical cyclone to develop in the month of January?