FISHERMEN'S OWN BOOK. 



Narrow Escape from Foundering. 



Sch. David A. Story, Capt. Joseph Ryan, left Gloucester, Nov. 12, 1880, 

 with a favoring breeze, and had a magnificent run, making the passage to 

 Grand Menan, a distance of two hundred and twenty-five miles, in the re- 

 markably short time of eighteen hours. After procuring a supply of bait 

 she proceeded to Halifax, where she arrived on Sunday evening, and taking 

 a supply of ice on board the next day, put to sea again on Tuesday evening, 

 and arrived on St. Peter's Bank on Friday, the 19th. On Saturday one set 

 of the trawls was made, the only set during the trip, and finding no fish, the 

 vessel was got underway and moved farther to the eastward. No other op- 

 portunity was presented to fish, as it was blowing heavily all the while, and 

 Monday, the 2 2d, at about four o'clock in the afternoon, the schooner then 

 having about three hundred fathoms of nine-inch cable out in ninety-five 

 fathoms of water, she struck adrift. She was given another hundred fath- 

 oms of cable, which failed to bring her up, the northwest wind blowing so 

 furiously, and the tide running so strong, that she floated her cable and an- 

 chor and drifted before the wind and tide. The signal lights could not be 

 kept burning a great while at a time in such a gale, but everything was made 

 as snug as possible, and leaving the regular watch of two men on deck, the 

 rest of the crew retired, six being quartered in the cabin and six in the fore- 

 castle. 



About half-past two o'clock on the morning of Tuesday, the 23d, finding 

 that the cable needed parceling, one of the watch went below to call the 

 captain, leaving only one man, Lyrhan Murray, on deck. Just at this time 

 the vessel was struck by a tremendous sea, knocking her down, with her 

 masts level in the water. Murray saw the sea coming, and running to the 



