November 19, 1925
Fisherman Swept From Bay State
Felix Boudreau Lost His Life Tuesday
While Schooner Was Bucking Her Way Through Northwest Gale
Caught by a comber that flooded the deck, Felix
Boudreau was washed over the stern of the fishing schooner Bay State
early Tuesday morning, while the schooner was fighting her way toward port against a heavy
northwest gale.
Boudreau, who was about 60
years old and a native of Westport, N. S., had just been relieved at the helm and had
scarcely removed lashings which had been necessary to help him keep his position at the
wheel when the sea hit the schooner and carried him overboard. It was impossible
under the conditions and in the darkness to appempt a rescue. The Bay
State commanded by Capt. Leon Doucette of Somerville, was
off Matinicus Rock, Me., on the way home from Brown's Bank at the time of the accident.
She arrived at the Boston Fish Pier today with her flag at half-mast.
Bad weather was encountered much of the time
that the Bay State was on the fishing grounds, and she lost
considerable fishing gear. On one day practically all the trawl line that was set
was lost, and her riding sail was split. |
