fishermen's memorial and record book. 125 



Picking the Nets and Trawls, in which we find a 

 Good Haul of Sketches, Incidents and Facts, rel- 

 ative to the Fisherman and his Occupation. 



Getting A Fare UNDER Difficulties. — Schooner Elisha Crowell 

 Capt. Thompson, of this port, which was out in the gale of January, 

 1871, Western Banks, was boarded by a sea on the night of the 

 9th, which caused her to part her cable, stove dories, and the men on 

 deck at the time narrowl}'^ escaped being washed overboard. The 

 weather moderating on the following day they again shaped their 

 course for the Banks, the vessel having been blown off some distance 

 by the gale. With commendable perseverance they set to work 

 patching up the disabled dories, and succeeded in getting three of 

 them in serviceable condition. A few odds and ends of trawl gear, 

 which they fortunately had on board, were made to supply the place 

 of those lost in the gale, and having two or three days of fine weather 

 they succeeded in taking 15,000 pounds of halibut and G,000 pounds 

 of codfish, arriving home on Saturday, making a very profitable trip. 

 The perseverance of Capt. Thompson in thus finishing up his vo3'^age 

 under such diflSculties is certainly worthy of commendation. 



A Meritorious Act. — Capt. Ezekiel Call, who was lost in the 

 schooner W^illiam Murray, during the severe gale of April 2d, 1871, 

 left a widow and five small children. Soon after his loss she was 

 presented with a house-lot at Riverdale, and her relatives and friends 

 signified their intention of building a house thereon and making her 

 a present of it. The money for the lumber Avas I'aised by subscrip- 

 tion, the cellar stoned and dug by willing hands ; then followed the 

 carpentry work, painting, etc., all done by volunteers. The house 

 was ready for occupancy in the spring of 1873, and the thanks of the 

 ■widow and the fatherless will descend as a benediction upon the 

 hearts of those who assisted in its erection either by money or labor. 



Good Pluck. — Skipper John Hamilton and crew of schooner 

 Robert Emmett, of this port, carried away her foremast on Georges, 

 during the gale of March, 1873. They did not allow this mishap to 

 break up their trip ; neither did they get another vessel to tow them 

 into port, thereby running up a big bill for the owners and insurance 

 company to pay. No, indeed ; nothing of the sort. But after clear 



