August 15, 1910
Starving Fishermen Picked Up
Had Been Adrift Five Days Without Food or Water
Capt. William Grady of sch. Margaret,
which arrived home this forenoon from a halibut trip to the far north via Portland fished
in latitude 49, where he found some fish and secured a good trip in addition to the fresh
halibut landed at Portland. He brought home 15,000 pounds of salt cod.
Capt. Grady reports August 1,
20 miles east of Cape Buena Vesta on the Northern coast of Newfoundland, he picked up a
dory containing William Dodge and Snuls Kippen two of
the crew of sch. Fannie Smith of Fortune Bay, N. F., who had
been astray five days and nights without food and water.
The men were on the eve on collapsing when
rescued, and could not have survived much longer. He kept them on board three days,
when they practically recovered and landed them at Bay Bulls.
Capt. Grady and his crew did
everything to relieve the suffering of the stray men, whose tongues and lips were split
and parched from not having any water during the time they were adrift. It was a
most timely rescue for few vessels ever pass that distant section at any time of the year.
Two of Crew of Sch. Ramona
Picked Up
Two of the crew of sch. Ramona
of this port, which is not absent on a halibut trip to the Labrador coast, strayed from
their vessel June 29, while they were visiting their trawls. A thick fog set in and
they lost sight of their vessel. The weather was piercing cold and for four days,
two of them in a driving rain, they rowed and drifted, finally making Double Islands, off
the Labrador shore. There were only shacks there and Esquimos who arrived in a boat
advised them to go south to Hopedale where were the Moravian Missionaries. The
Esquimos accompanied them and the two fishermen were splendidly treated at Hopedale where
they remained 22 days.
The men were later taken to Halifax by steamer
Bruce from Newfoundland, arriving there last week. |
