May 5, 1941
Lobster Carrier Loses Engineer
John Erickson, Drowned from Craft off
Maine Coast Friday Evening
John Erickson, 57 years,
single, native of Iceland, who resided in this city, was lost overboard some time Friday
night from the M. V. Consolidated, a lobster carrier, when the
craft was sailing along the Maine coast, bound from the Consolidated Lobster company
plant at Bay View, to Nova Scotia.
Erickson, who was engineer
aboard the craft, was first missed about 10 o'clock Friday night, according to Capt. Fenwick
Larkin, skipper, on arriving at Rockland, Me., Saturday.
Erickson was well-known here
along the waterfront, having gone as engineer with Capt. Archie A. MacLeod
halibuting in the past. A year ago February, he was a member of the crew of the
ill-fated sch. Doris M. Hawes,
Capt. Mickey Driscoll when the craft was dragging off the Virginia coast
and was in collision with the str. Pygmalion. The Hawes
went to the bottom but all the crew were saved by a crew from the steamer and taken to the
West Indies and from there given passage home. Erickson was injured
at one time aboard a boat and ever since has had a lame leg. |
