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Identifier: wrecksaroundnant00gard (find matches)
Title: Wrecks around Nantucket since the settlement of the island, and the incidents connected therewith, embracing over seven hundred vessels
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Gardner, Arthur H
Subjects: Shipwrecks
Publisher: Nantucket, The Inquirer and mirror press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation
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thefire burned itself out, leaving nothing but a charred hull. The threemen on board were able to save only a few of their belongings, thefierce fire preventing them from going below, but everything thatwas moveable in the house and on deck was taken ashore when theboat was beached and before the fire had completed its work. April 15th, two three-masted vessels, the George E. Klinck,bound from Long Cove, Me., for New York, with a cargo of stone,and the Roger Drury, bound from St. John, N. B., for City Isl-and, with a cargo of laths, struck on Hawes shoal, in Nantucketsound, during heavy weather in the night, the latter being ashore onlya short distance outside of Cape Poge. The crew from Muskeget sta-tion boarded both vessels early in the morning and later the coastguard cutter Acushnet came down and succeeded in floating theKlinck. The Drury remained fast until the 17th, when awrecking outfit from New London succeeded in floating her, afterlightering several hundred bundles of laths.
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.A.I=>XE3iTIDIX:. 140 Awards to Nantucket Men by the MassachusettsHumane Society. The following list of awards by the Massachusetts Humane So-ciety to citizens of Nantucket are, with a single exception, for rescuesfrom perils of the sea, and in all but four instances for efforts in be-half of ship-wrecked mariners whose rescue has often been effectedthrough extraordinary hardship and risk of life: For rescuing crew of Brig Mariner, wrecked on Nantucket Bar,October 15, 1845:Capt. Heman Eldredge—Gold Medal.George Fisher, Joseph Perry, Hiram Fisher, Jesse Eldredge, William Patterson—Silver Medal each.Capt. Eben Gould—Gold Medal. Moses Hamilton, Theophilus Key, John Hall, Henry Young, MeltiahFisher—Silver Medal each. For rescuing crew of Bark Forest Prince, wrecked near Long Pond,December 24, 1852: David G. Patterson, Joseph S. Patterson—$10.00 each. Davis Hall, Alexander B. Dunham, Daniel T. Dunham, James C.Dunham, William R. Forbes, William Swan, Frederick A. Dun-ham, Josep
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