Coastal Damage and Geographic Changes

The storm formed when two low pressure areas merged off the coast of Virginia and travelled up the coast. At its peak, it produced a storm surge of about ten feet in Cohasset harbor and hurricane-force winds in Nantucket. The storm killed more than 400 people and sank more than 150 boats and ships. It also changed the course of the North River, separating the Humarock portion of Scituate, Massachusetts, from the rest of Scituate. The passage dates the storm's strike on the New England coast to November 26 and 27, 1898; the individual impacts described here are not independently dated within the supplied passages.