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FISHERMEN'S OWN BOOK. 



ployed in the Southern mackerel fishery, run down and sunk off Block Isl- 

 and, June 7. Crew saved. Value, $6,000; insurance, $4,875. 



Lost Overboard, etc. — The following persons were lost overboard on 

 Georges : James Haynes from sch. Mary E. Daniels, March 3 ; Edmund 

 Coolin from sch. B. F. Somes, March 4 ; John Wilson from sch. Etta Gott, 

 April 19; Michael Pender from sch. Finance, May 14; Harrison T. Clark 

 from sch. John Q. Adams, in October. 



August Anderson from sch. El Dorado, on Middle Bank, March 16 ; Mi- 

 chael Shea from sch. Elisha Crowell, in Provincetown harbor, Oct. 28 ; 

 Charles Anderson from sch. C. P. Thofnpson, on the passage to Fortune 

 Bay. 



The following persons were lost in the Bank fishery, most of them while 

 out in dories to visit their trawls : Angus Harrigan and William Edwards 

 from sch. William Parsons, 2d, Jan. 15 ; Rory McDonald from sch. Kfiight 

 Templar, Jan. 17 ; Pierce Howard from sch. El Dorado, Feb. 14; William 

 H. Smith from sch. William A. Pew, in Liverpool (N. S.) harbor, in Febru- 

 ary ; Blanchard Campbell from sch. N. H. Phillips, March 18; John Mar- 

 shall and Patrick Manning from sch. Ktiight Templar, April 6 ; John Wilson 

 from sch. Etta Gott, April 19 ; Pius Mclntire and Hugh Gilmore from sch. 

 Wachusett, May 3 ; John J. Powers and Norman McLeod from sch. Chal- 

 lenge, Sept. 23 ; George F. Wilson from sch. Gertie E. Foster, Sept. 29 ; 

 James Greneben from sch.Jafnes Bliss, Sept. 22 ; John Johnston and John 

 Peterson, Oct. 21, and Henry Morine, Nov. 2, from sch. Aberdeen; Morris 

 Bryant from sch. Moro Castle, Oct. 26 ; Joseph Morey, William Gallivan, 

 John McDonald and Henry Stello from sch. Epes Tarr, Oct. 27 ; Thomas 

 Stevens and Peter Johnson from sch. Alfred Walen, Nov. 7 ; Charles Hymes 

 from sch. Andrew Leighton, Nov. 11 ; Nicholas Devereaux and Edward Mc- 

 Carty from sch. Peter D. Smith, Nov. 14; Thomas Morrissey and Edward 

 Collins from sch. Fitz J. Babson, in November ; Frederic Peterson from 

 sch. Onward, in November ; Charles Fogg and John Dennen from sch. Le- 

 vanter, on Middle Bank, Nov. 23. 



1876. 



27 vessels, i fishing boat and 212 men were lost this year. The vessels 

 covered a tonnage of 1,691.44 tons, and were valued at $150,000, with 

 $116,222 insurance. Of the lost seaman, 54 left widows, and 112 children 

 were made fatherless. 167 men went down in their vessels, 21 were lost over- 

 board, and 24 were lost in dories while visiting their trawls, 9 vessels were 

 lost on Grand Bank, 6 on La Have Bank, 3 on Georges, 3 in the Bay St. 

 Lawrence, 3 in the Winter shore fishery, and i each in the Western Bank, 

 shore mackerel and herring fisheries. 12 vessels and 90 men were lost in 

 a series of gales extending from Dec. 9 to 16. 



