January
15th - One of the crew of
sch. John J. Fallon was drowned on
Georges, when the craft fouled the dory. His dorymate saved himself by grabbing the
bowsprit stay.
20th - The Elk - two men lost in a sudden blinding snow storm.
28th - The Oretha F. Spinney lost one man and
The Gov. Marshall lost one man.
February
16th - The Republic was run down by an unknown three-masted
schooner and two men were lost.
March
16th - Charles
Goodwin, of the sch. Etta M. Burns, died at sea.
April
6th - The Hesperus lost of one of the crew, Howard
Carew, on Brown's bank. Carew's dorymate, Patrick
Burke, miraculously escaped.
May
6th - The Elsie lost one man with no trace.
23rd - The Elizabeth W. Nunan, a man was drowned while
hauling trawls on Georges.
27th - The Gloucester sea serpent makes another appearance.
June
29th - The Rex - fifteen men perished when liner rammed the
Halibut craft.
August
27th - Arthur
B. Fay, engineer of the fishing steamer The
Nirvana, passed away at the Addison Gilbert Hospital, following an
accident at sea.
November
19th - Felix Boudreau lost
from the Bay State.
30th - Alphonse Pitman lost
from the sch. Pilgrim. |
