January
Richard Myett and John
Swinson went astray in a dory from sch. Lizzie J. Greenleaf
on Banquereau in a snow squall but were picked up by their own vessel after being astray
forty-eight hours and undergoing great hardships.
4th - James Ryan of sch. Jubilee
drowned in Pew's dock. He was a native of Port Mulgrave, N. S.
5th - Christopher Lorensen,
30, unmarried, went out in a dory fishing from East Gloucester and was capsized and
drowned.
26th - Sch. Leader wrecked on the ledge to the southward of Norman
Woe Bell Buoy.Four men lost. Their bodies were recovered and buried from the Church of Our
Lady of Good Voyages.
Capt. John M. O'Brien, a native of St. John's, N. F., and his son John
W. O'Brien, washed overboard from sch. Senator Frye on
the passage home from Placentia Bay, N. F. Capt. O'Brien had a wife and three sons.
February
Sch. Mary S.
Hontvet lost in one of the February gales, crew of thirteen lost.
Sch. Samuel V. Colby lost early in
February with crew of eight men.
Sch. Mildred V. Lee lost in February
gale with crew of sixteen men.
John Gillis, 28, having a wife and three children in this city, was
washed overboard from sch. Gladstone on the Banks in a February
gale. John Nickerson, 30, unmarried, a native of Argyle, N. S., washed
overboard from sch. Harry G. French in a February gale.
Sch. Pinta was thrown down in one of the gales, until her
mastheads were in the water, having decks swept of everything movable, checkerboards and
gurry-pens swept away, main-gaff and foreboom and gaff broken, losing sails, etc. Edgar
Peeples, one of the watch, was washed off the fore-gaff, clinging to the
halyards, and when the vessel righted was standing on the foremast-head, having grasped
the cross-trees. Captain Hynes, who was below, was knocked against a
bulkhead and had his shoulder injured.
5th - Sch. Horace
B. Parker was damaged by collision with pilot boat J. D. Lawlor about
ten miles north of Minot's Light and had a narrow escape from sinking. The Lawlor
was sunk and four out of five of her crew drowned. Sch. Atlanta
was struck by a sea on St. Peter's Bank, staving her bulwarks, breading windlass bits,
smashing four dories and doing other damage.
6th - Frank Penney, a native
of Fortune Bay, Newfoundland, washed overboard form sch. Jennie Seaverns on
the passage home from Placentia Bay, N. F. Sch. Forest A. Blackford
had her planking cut by the ice in the Merrimack river at Newburyport and narrowly escaped
sinking. One of Capt. Blackford's sons fell overboard but was rescued by
boats which put off from the shore.
8th - In the great gale of
Feb. 8, sch. Hattie E. Worcester went adrift colliding with a
coaster and had her side badly chafed and rigging damaged; sch. Pendragon
dragged her anchors and collided with sch. A. R. Crittenden; sch.
Harvard dragged close in shore but was towed off to a place of
safety; sch. Rigel lost her bowsprit by collision with another
fishing vessel; sch. Elenora and Lawrence Murdock
collided, the latter losing bobstay, bowsprit and knightheads; sch. Vigilant
narrowly escaped going ashore at Fort Point but was towed to a place of safety; sch. Storm
Knight had starboard rail and bulwarks smashed and planking stove; sloop Venus
was towed to a place of safety; sch. Marblehead of Winterport,
Me., anchored in the harbor, parted her anchor and went ashore at Fort Point, where she
became a total wreck. The crew was saved with great difficulty. Sch. Lizzie B.
Adams was caught in the Bay in the gale, anchoring two miles S. E. of
Minot's Ledge Light, arriving home in the evening badly iced up.. Sch. Ralph
E. Eaton anchored off Eastern Point, icing up badly and two of her crew were
severely frostbitten; a tug went to her assistance and towed her into port.
9th - Capt. Caleb
Hines, 50, a native of Pubnico, N. S., washed overboard from sch. Reuben
L. Richardson on the passage home from Newfoundland with a cargo of frozen
herring. He had a wife and three sons. Sch. Clara F.
Friend wrecked and crew of twelve men lost.
10th - Angus McEachern of
sch. Ralph F. Hodsdon fell from the New England Fish Company's
wharf, striking on the vessel's real and falling into the water but was rescued in an
exhausted condition and with his shoulder dislocated and a cut over the eye. John
Dillon was knocked overboard form sch. General Cogswell
by the fore-sheet on the passage from Newfoundland, but was rescued by his shipmates after
having been in the water three-quarters of an hour.
March
John Dixon one of the crew of
sch. A. R. Chrttenden died at sea in March.
2nd - James Everett of sch. Briganza
cut his finger while cleaning fish, and going to the lee rail to wash off
the blood fell overboard and was drowned. He was about 26 and a native of the Isle of Man.
21st - John Pitman, 22, a
native of Placentia Bay, N. F., washed overboard from sch. Julia Whalen
on the way home from Green Bank.
22nd - James Bruce, 40, a
native of Scotland, drowned on St. Peter's Bank by the capsizing of a dory from sch. Gertie
Evelyn. His dorymate, John Fowler, was rescued after
clinging to the overturned dory about twelve minutes.
26th - Fred. Trecarten a
native of West Isles, N. B., one of the crew of sch. Mabel Leighton,
drowned in the dock at the wharf of D. B. Smith & Co.
28th - Adolph Clausen, one of
the crew of sch. Bessie M. Wells, was drowned from a dory.
Paving freighter Harriet wrecked at Folly Cove, crew saved.
April
10th - Sch. Lizzie
W. Hannum wrecked on Great Ledge in Buzzard's Bay. She was engaged in
importing shells form the West India Islands and a portion of her cargo was saved.
23rd - Alex. Johnson, one of
the crew of sch. Georgie Campbell, died at St. Pierre, Miq. He
was unmarried and had parents residing at Fort square. He was ashore on leave and is
supposed to have fallen or been thrown from a steep cliff at the foot of which his dead
body was found.
28th - John King, 22, a
native of Arichat, C. B., washed overboard from sch. Concord on
the passage to Iceland.
29th - Olof John Jacobson, a
native of Gottenbure, Sweden, about 23, drowned by the capsizing of a dory from sch. Rigel
at Iceland. His dorymate, Oscar Johnson, was rescued when
the dory drifted near enough to the vessel to be seen, but Jacobson laid in the water head
downward, which position he had been in for half an hour and was dead when taken from the
water.
May
William Rudolph, a native of
Pubnico, N. S., one of the crew of the sch. Alice R. Lawson,
died at Port au Basque, Newfoundland.
13th - Sch. West
Side wrecked on Duck Rock, off Boothbay, Me. Crew saved, wreck sold for
$255. Sch. Tragabigzanda collided with steamer Yarmouth
on Pipnies Bank, losing bowsprit, foremast and mainmast but succeeded in reaching port
safely the next day.
14th - Eight of the crew of
sch. Edith M. McInnis went astray in their dories off Ingonish,
C. B, but reached North Sydney in safety after a long row.
24th - Joseph Ritchie of
Liverpool, N. S., and Joseph Perry, of Halifax, N. S., went out from sch.
Howard Holbrook to visit their trawls and failed to return,
having probably been capsized and drowned.
26th - Two of the crew of
sch. Howard Holbrook went adrift form their vessel while
visiting their trawls, but were picked up about eighteen miles off Cape Roseler and taken
to Liverpool, England, where they arrived June 5. Sch. A. T. Gifford
was run down on Cashed by fishing sch. W. Parnell O'Hara ,
losing rail and bulwarks, main-boon and main-sail and having main-rigging and chain-plates
torn away. It was a close call.
29th - Capt. Joseph
Ryan of the sch. A. D. Story, died suddenly while
standing at the wheel of that vessel on the Iceland fishing grounds. He was a native of
St. John's, N. F., but had followed fishing for many years from this city where he had a
wife and two children.
June
Michael Flynn of sch. F.
W. Homans died on the passage home from Port Hawkesbury where he had been
landed sick.
6th - Jeremiah Amereau, 24,
unmarried, and a native of Tusket Harbor, N. S. was washed out of a dory from sch. Fernwood
. His dorymate, Thomas Deveau immediately rowed to his
assistance but was unable to reach him before he sunk.
7th - John McDonald, Herbert Powers,
Samuel Lowery and Benjamin Spinney went astray from sch. Robin
Hood while visiting trawls on Green Bank. Lowery and McDonald were picked up
and taken to Bay Bulls, Newfoundland, by sch. Valkyrie after a
terrible struggle against the elements for three days and nights without food or drink.
The others were rescued by a French fishing schooner after a like experience for
forty-eight hours.
13th - John Foye, of sch. Iolanthe
was swordfishing off Chatham in a fourteen-foot dory when a swordfish became tangled with
his buoy-line and started off with the dory in tow, "like a streak of
lightening", nearly filling the dory with water and almost pitching him overboard. He
dared not move forward to cut the gear but had to sit still and submit to be towed around
for five hours when the fish died of exhaustion. Once it came to the surface, gave a leap
of twelve feet into the air, and then sank under the water again sidewise, the wrench
carrying off the dory's gunwale. After rowing all that afternoon and night, and the next
day and night, without food or water, he came to anchor in fifty-eight fathoms of water
forty miles east of Chatham, where he was picked up by a coasting vessel and taken to New
York.
15th - James P. Welch, one of
the crew of sch. Nettie Dixon, 27 years, died on injuries
received in his chest in boarding his vessel at St. Mary's Bay, N. F. He left a widow and
child; also a father and sister in this city.
17 - Sch. Jumbo
sunk at Newburyport. Capt. Stephen Orr, a native of Cape Elizabeth, Me.,
and George Welch of Pigeon Cove were drowned.
23rd - Lewis Musie, a native
of Morris Island, N. S., 23 and unmarried, fell overboard from sch. Oliver
Wendell Holmes while taking in the mainsail off the southern coast of
Newfoundland on the night of June 23, and was drowned.
28th - John Nolan, a native
of Prince Edward Island, about sixty years old, lately of sch. Ralph E. Eaton,
fell overboard and was smothered or drowned in Bennett's dock. Joseph Miller, a
native of Arichat, C. B., and Yourda Seyrintureson, a native of Iceland,
were capsized and drowned in a dory from sch. Concord at
Iceland. The latter was unmarried, but Miller had a wife and four children.
July
4th - Arthur Gosby, 24, one
of the crew of sch. Virginia, , a native of England, was drowned
on the Banks by the capsizing of his dory, his dorymate, Philip Flander, being
rescued.
8th - Samuel McClain and
"Swedish John" went astray from sch. Fortuna
but after going astray without food or water for twenty-four hours were picked up 35 miles
off Nantucket by sch. Two Forty and landed at Boston. Charles
Ross and James Piatt also went astray from the Fortuna
at the same time but were picked up by a Gloucester schooner and landed at Nantucket.
9th - Two of the crew of the Two
Forty narrowly escaped being swamped in their dory by a vicious swordfish.
23rd - Edward Lewis, a Pigeon
Cove fisherman, 35, fell overboard from his boat and was drowned, having probably been
attacked by an ill turn to which he was subject.
August
6th - Richard White and Frederic
Schwartz went astray from sch. Shenandoah, having only
a quart of water and no food in their dory. White was attacked with
erysipelas in his hands and arms, so that the rowing and management of the dory fell
entirely upon his dorymate. On the fourth day out they were rescued by a French
brigantine.
9th - Wilson Roberts, 21,
unmarried, from Antigonish, N. S., and Christian Johnson, of Denmark, 25,
unmarried, went astray in the fog from sch. Dora A. Lawson on
Grand Bank and no trace of them has since been found.
24th - Sch. Masconomo
went shore at Port Jolly Head, but was got off and taken on the ways at Liverpool, N. S.
September
Sch. J. H.
Carey is assumed lost with crew of eleven men.
11th - Sch. Sheffeyld
was struck by the squall about ten miles off Minot's Light, while running for Boston with
a fare of fresh fish, and immediately thrown on her beam ends. The crew below scrambled on
deck as best they could to find both topmasts in the water and that the pins had dropped
out of the pens below, allowing her cargo of 15,000 lbs. fish to drop to the leeward and
thus help the soaking sails to keep her down. The water was pouring down the forecastle
ladder and booby hatch and the vessel fast filling when the foresheet was cut and the
schooner responding gradually righted as she was relieved of the great masses of sodden
canvas. The pumps showed the hold to be half full of water and it required four hours'
constant pumping to free her. Three of her seen dories were washed away, all their trawls
lost and nothing movable left on deck, but the crew were glad to escape with their lives.
19th - Sch. Lottie
K. Friend run into by sch. Sarah W. Lawson in
Delaware Bay. Lottie K. Friend was sunk, crew saved.
October
Gilbert Ross, one of the crew
of the sch. Lizzie J. Greenleaf, was drowned while returning to
the vessel on Grand Bank. His dorymate was rescued. Ross belonged to Port La Tour, N. S.,
where he leaves a wife and children.
John Bowman, native of Nova Scotia, 27, one of the crew of sch. Lizzie
B. Adams, crushed between that schooner and sch. Volunteer
on the Banks in October, left widow and two children.
10th - Carl Johnson and Martin
Hanson, two of the crew of sch. Lizzie Griffin, went
astray from their vessel on New Seattle Bank and were never heard from. Both were young
men and natives of Sweden.
18th - Daniel Bowes, one of
the crew of sch. Georgie Campbell, was washed from the deck
while the vessel was on Banquereau in the heavy breeze of that date.
25th - John LeBlanc, one of
the crew of the sch. Eleazar Boynton, washed overboard on
Georges; he was a native of Pubnico, N. S.
November
11th - Peter Gillis, of sch. Nelson
Y. McFarland, drowned in Samuel Lane & Son's dock; he was a native of
St. Peter's, P. E. I.
December
11th - Andrew Nickerson, a
native of Woods Harbor, N. S., 33, one of the crew of sch. Boyd A. Leeds,
washed overboard on Georges, left widow and two children.
12th - Sch. Falcon is lost, with crew of eleven men.
Sch. John W. Bray is lost, with a
crew of fourteen men.
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