January
Sch. Messenger
lost in January, with crew of twelve men.
17th - James S. Hutchins, of
Edgecomb, Me., from sch. General Grant lost overboard on
homeward voyage.
February
3th - Sch. Herman
E. Poole broke from her moorings, drifted out of the harbor and was lost, in
a violent snow storm.
March
Sch. Franklin
Snow lost on Grand Banks in March, with crew of twelve men. James
Downy and Richard Kelley, both of Guysboro, N. S., lost
overboard from sch. Mary Low on Western Bank.
Sch. Matchless
lost on Georges in March, with crew of ten men.
2nd - Caleb Coops, of this
town, lost overboard from schooner Edward Everett.
12th - Sch. Southern
Cross employed in the Grand Bank Fishery, lost in the ice off Newfoundland;
crew saved. William J. McKay, of this town, and Patrick
O'Brien, of Newfoundland, lost from sch. George O. Hovey.
15th - James McIntosh, of
this town, and Charles Wells, of Manchester, were lost from sch. Oceanus.
21st - Thomas McGowan, of
Boston, and William Cuick, of LeHave, N. S., lost on Grand Bank from sch.
John Smith.
April
Sch. White
Eagle lost on Grand Bank with crew of twelve men.
3rd - Stephen McCobb, of
Friendship, Me., and Pierce Wotton, of this town, lost on Western Bank,
from sch. Ocean Belle.
11th - George T. Sanford, of
Deer Isle, Me., and Alex McDonald, of P. E. I., lost on Grand Bank from
sch. M. L. Wetherell.
May
25th - Sch. Josephine
sprung a leak and sunk off Portland; crew saved.
June
3rd - Oliver Johnson of this
town, of sch. Mary Carlisle, lost from a dory in Belle Harbor,
N. F.
July
2nd - Sch. George
W. Clifford sunk off Harpswell, Me.; crew saved.
17th - Sch. Tivano
lost on Green Island Ledge off Portland; crew saved.
27th - William Safford, of
St. John's, N. F., lost from sch. William Parsons, 2nd, on St.
Peters Bank.
August
30th - Sch. Signal
run down and sunk off Matinicus; crew saved.
October
23rd - Sch. William
Walworth lost on 'Squam Bar; crew saved.
November
1st - Sch. Ada L.
Harris lost on Nantucket Shoals; crew saved.
December
13th - Rueben Pierce, of
Boothbay, lost from sch. Annie Linwood, on Western Bank.
19th - Frank Freitus fell
from the jib-boom of Sch. Ella Armsden form Windsor, N. S.,
bound for Philadelphia, and was drowned. He was a native of Boston, where he leaves
a widow and one child..
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