'^^ FISHERMEN^ S O WN BOOK. 



Experience of the "John Dove"-^ Tough Time ./ //.-Sch John 



overbold bu be ^'^' '"^°' ^'^ ""^ "^'"^^ ^"^-^- «-- fell 



a^struck on K V". "^k"' '"^"""' '"'^' "^ ^^^ ^^-^ -bber boots 

 from r , r^K ''' ''"'^' ^°P^^ ^"d t"'^^ --e thrown over 



awav LT"'' '"^.^'^ ::f ^ "^^ ^""-"^ ^^-"g -d the current bore him 

 away from them. The cable was paid out until the vessel backed down to 

 where Brown was swimming, and he was taken on board, after having been 

 in the water about e.ght minutes. Early on the morning of the r.th a tre 

 n^endous sea broke over the vessel, sweeping the decks' carding way two 

 compamon-ways, smashing dory, staving rail, breaking the wheel-box de 



Tfte b, r°°'"^, '''-'' ^"' '^'"-^ ^'^'^ ^^-^^- ^"t for the par'ting 

 lev w\r I. '""' ""^' '^^^ '°""'^^^^- ^- °f ^he crew, MauL wf- 

 TheX r "'Tl!''" companion-way and had his face severely cut. 

 a^ thtZ T f • '' '" ''^ ^^' '°^ ^^P^^^^- ^^^ h^^ -"gh we'ather 

 ^ ounl ; "^ P^'"'' ^"'"^ ^^^^^ ^""^^ blown off her fishing 



grounds, once a distance of some seventy-five miles. 



nea^r^'Tor' " ^"f;^™ Groves. "-Sch. ^.//. ^..... was knocked 

 nearly bottom upward by a heavy sea, her foremast carried away to the 

 deck, and lost mamsail, main-boom, and main-gaff. Two of her crew, Chas 

 Cook of Lockeport, N. S., and Joseph Teddy of Sydney, C. B., were swep; 



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keep her free. Some sails were rigged and a drogue put out. They steered 

 ^r Liverpool, N. S., which they reached after a dangerous passage, 'c lar es 

 McKinney, one of the crew, was thrown out of his berth upon the stove 

 and was so severely burned that he was sent home in sch. Jlowan/. 



rentltdTr'^^' ^°""^"^^'" ^apt- John Thompson, from Western Bank, 

 reported the gales as very severe. Lost three anchors. On the nth of 

 December saw brig Z^cy in a disabled condition on the southern part of the 

 Bank ; took off her crew of eight men and brought them to this port The 

 vessel soon after sunk. She was commanded by Capt. James Irving, loaded 

 with coal and potatoes, and bound for Cuba. 



Sch. "Riverdale," Capt. Forristall, while lying at anchor on LaHave 

 Bank, in the gale of the 9th of December, was struck by a heavy sea, which 

 swept the decks, smashed three dories and sent them adrift, and carried 

 away everything moveable. The vessel was hove on her beam ends, and 

 the cabin and forecastle filled with water. The cable parted, and the crew 

 shifted the salt and fish in the hold, and the vessel righted. The Rh'cn/u/e 

 lost her other anchor and cable in the gale of the i6th, and was obli-red to 

 put into Halifax for repairs. 



