70 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. Fmance, 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. Thompson, 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. Knight 

 Templar, Jan. 17 ; Pierce Howard from sch. El Do7'ado, 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. Knight 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. James Bliss, Sept. 22 ; John Johnston and John 

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

 Bryant from sch. Mora 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. Andi'ew 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, 2 1 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. 



