April 6, 1936
Man Drowned When Dory Upset Near Vessel
Lost overboard when his dory capsized close to
his vessel, John Santos, 47 years of East Boston, leaving a wife and four
young children in Portugal, was drowned Saturday afternoon, March 28, on Sable Island
bank, it was learned this forenoon when the local sch. Adventure,
Capt. Leo Hines, arrived at Boston Fish pier, with her flag at half-mast.
Santos with his dory mate, Frank
Santos of Provincetown, had returned to the side of the Adventure,
their dory filled with fish. It was blowing hard and the sea was extremely choppy.
Just before they were ready to hoist the dory aboard, a sea hit the craft a blow
that caused her to capsize, spilling both men into the briny. Frank Santos
clung to the bottom of the dory and was soon picked up by fishermen in other dories
near-by that were waiting to be taken aboard.
John Santos, however, tried
the impossible, the crew said, when he attempted to swim aboard, despite the fact that he
was heavily weighted down with his oilskins, and high boots. Capt. Hines declared
that no man could have survived the sea as it was, clothed in fishermen's outfit as was
Santos, and the man was drowned before the very eyes of his dorymates who were powerless
to aid him. They could not reach him in time to rescue him from the seething
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