January
Sch. Charger
lost sometime in January.
3rd - Fred. Smith, a native
of Norway, and Alexander St. Just, of Nantes, France, both single, lost
in dory from sch. Hereward on Grand Bank.
17th - Phineas B. Norris, 50,
widower, drowned at Pew's dock.
22nd - Sch. Ocean
King wrecked at sea and abandoned on Feb. 9th. Her crew, after
suffering great hardship from cold, exposure and hunger, being rescued with great
difficulty by the sch. C. B. Manning.
24th - Andrew Lambert, 36, of
East Gloucester, one of the crew of sch. Loring B. Haskell, drowned
at T Wharf, Boston. Body recovered.
26th - Michael McDougall, of
sch. Northern Eagle, about 52, and a native of Cape Breton, went
astray in a dory in Ipswich Bay, and probably capsized. Left a widow.
28th - Capt. Joshua
Arey, one of the crew of the sch. Augusta H. Johnson, a
native of Vinalhaven, Me., washed overboard on Georges; left widow and four children in
this city.
30th - Fred. Gustafson, age
26, John Fosberg, 28, and John Noran, 32, drowned by
capsizing of a dory from sch. Alice M. Strople on Grand
Banks. All natives of Sweden and unmarried.
February
4th - Joseph Doty, a native
of Liverpool, N. S., one of the crew of sch. Joseph Garland, went
astray in a dory in Ipswich Bay and probably capsized, unmarried.
15th - William Magee, 35,
native of St. Johns, N. F., died on board sch. Restless on
Georges and was buried at sea.
20th - John Keating, of sch. Dido.
drowned at Lewis wharf, Boston.
23rd - Frank W. Smith, a
native of Germany, and Emil Nelson, a Swede, of sch. Peregrine
White, drowned on Western Bank by the sinking of an overloaded dory.
The accident was witnessed from the schooner, and a dory payed down to their rescue, but
when it reached the spot they had disappeared.
25th - Sch. Phil
Sheridan knocked down and wrecked on Georges. James McDougall,
the only man on deck when she capsized, was washed overboard but clung to a
broken dory until he was rescued. The others of the crew being below had
considerable difficulty in reaching the deck before the vessel righted, five minutes after
she went over. They remained two days on the wreck, when they were taken off, saving
only what they stood in. Charles Anderson, 27, a native of Sweden,
of sch. Pendragon, run down in a dory while crossing the
vessel's bow on Georges and drowned. His dory-mate, Peter Johnson, was
rescued in an exhausted condition.
28th - Jeremiah Hadley, 27,
of Guysboro, N. S. washed overboard from sch. Stranger on
Georges.
March
17th - Charles McNeil, 20, of
Souris, P. E. I., and Edward Burt, 25, native of Norway. lost in dory
from sch. Abby F. Morris on Grand Bank.
22nd - Jacob Anderson, 24, a
native of Norway, unmarried, one of the crew of sch. Edward P. Boynton, run
over by freight cars at head of Commercial wharf, Boston, and instantly killed.
April
Sch. Jamestown
lost with crew of twelve men.
3rd - George Rice, of
England, washed overboard form sch. Samuel R. Crane on Western
Bank. Charles Erickson, of Sweden, 18, washed from bowsprit of sch.
Frederick Gerring, Jr., on Georges.
27th - James McGrath, 18, of
Beverly, washed form flying-jibboom of sch. Gertie Evelyn off
Cape Henolpen. Charles Morrison, a native of Prince Edward Island,
and Edward Burke, a Norwegian, capsized in a dory from sch. Abby
F. Morris on the Sable Island grounds.
30th - John Colley, a native
of England, about 60, cook of sch. Alfred Walen, died on the
homeward passage from Georges.
May
1st - Christian Hanson, a
Norwegian, about 27, died on board sch. David M. Hilton.
7th - Sch. C. B.
Manning wrecked at Yarmouth, N.S.
11th - John J. Allen of
Rockport drowned when his dory capsized
15th - Peter Martinsen, 32,
and John Hanson, 30, of sch. Thomas F. Bayard, capsized
in dory and drowned off Bonne Bay, N. F. Both natives of Denmark. Martinsen
left a widow and child in Boston.
19th - John Fowler, 28, died
on board sch. Annie Wesley on Grand Bank from blood
poisoning. Cosmore White, a native of Pubnico, N. S., aged 20,
unmarried, of sch. Mabel Kenniston, washed overboard and
drowned.
23rd - John Fowler died on
board sch. Annie Wesley on Grand Banks. Richard
White and Archie McKinnon went astray in dory from sch. Rebecca
Bartlett; picked up June 2 by sch. Theresa D. Baker of
Provincetown. McKinnon died of exposure same day
24th - James McDonald and Oscar
Daphinee went astray in dory from sch. Carrie & Annie
of Boston. Picked up after four days' and nights' exposure.
27th - Sch. Addie
John of Weymouth, N.S., wrecked at Grape Vine Cove.
June
3rd - Simon Landry died on
board sch. Chocorua on Georges (31y. 2m. 18d.)
5th - George F. Frost, a
Pigeon Cove dory fisherman, drowned.
17th - Freeman Owen and Daniel
Goodwin of sch. Winona capsized their dory and drowned.
26th - Thomas DeCoste and William
Drew lost in the fog from sch. D. D. Winchester on
Western Bank, picked up by sch. John W. Brown of Portland
July
3rd - Sch. Charles
P. Thompson wrecked on Blonde Rocks off Seal Island, crew saved.
7th - Daniel McMaster and Alex
McNeil lost in the fog from sch. Grace L. Fears on
Grand Bank; picked up after several hours exposure
9th - Sch. E. W.
Merchant wrecked on the Shovelful Shoal, crew saved.
24th - John Strople and Robert
Jameson lost in fog from sch. Willie M. Stevens, and Augustus
Crittenden and Harry Bloom from sch. Lillian Baxter
on Grand Bank; all rescued after long exposure
30th - Sch. Monmouth
run down and sunk off Cape Cod by the British brig Energy, crew
saved..
August
Arthur Hughes, cook of sch. Lizzie
Griffin, drowned at the Isles of Shoals in August.
6th - Sch. Alert struck
by lightening. Two crews poisoned at Souris, P.E.I. by eating lobsters.
12th - Sch. Careline
Corson wrecked at Lanesville
13th - Jeremiah Crowell a
native of Clark's Harbor, N. S., 25, capsized in dory from sch. Proctor
Brothers on Grand Bank, and drowned
24th - Capt. Patrick
Diggins of sch. F. A. Smith seriously injured by the
bursting of a musket while signaling dories on Grand Bank
September
3rd - Gale on Grand Bank.
Sch. Lillian Baxter wrecked and one of her crew, Randall
Pysche, a native of Canso, washed overboard and drowned. (Randall's brother,
Thomas Pysche was lost with the Thomas L. Tarr.)
Remainder of crew taken off and landed at Queenstown. Joseph Tierney, of
Bordeaux, France, and Charles Ferguson, of Guysboro, N. S., lost from
sch. Iolanthe. Isaac F. Blanchard of
Charlestown drowned at Pigeon Cove. Sch. Thomas
L. Tarr lost with crew of fourteen men.
13th - Robert Torrey of
Guysboro, N. S.,unmarried, one of the crew of sch. A. R. Crittenden fell
overboard in boarding a seineboat and was drowned off Eastern Point.
20th - Sch. Lightwing
wrecked at Scituate, crew saved.
November
10th - William DeCoste of
Harbor Bouche, N. S., about 30, washed overboard on passage from Georges. Joseph
Conrad, of sch. Epes Tarr, about 20, a native of East
Port, Medway, N. S., crowned in Gloucester Harbor.
17th - One of the crew of
sch. Star of the East, known as Portuguese Joe, struck
by the mainboom and killed off Cape Sable.
18th - Thomas White, of sch. D.
D. Winchester, capsized in dory and drowned.
December
4th - Rufus Wheeler, drowned by sinking of
dory on Cat Ledge. He was about 45, and left a widow and six children. His
brother George Wheeler who was with him, was rescued in an exhausted
condition.
14th - Sch. Peregrine White, engaged
in the Bank halibut fishery, wrecked at Hermitage Bay, N. F., crew saved.
18th - Sch. Grace L. Fears lost
in storm.
Sch. Peter D. Smith
sailed for Georges sailed in November, and never returned to port, probably
lost in a December gale; crew of twelve men lost.
Sch. William Parsons sailed in
November with a crew of twelve men and did not return. |
