i62 FISHERMEN'S OWN BOOK. 



of canvas. Her crew consisted of Capt. John N. Hudson, Francis E. Fitch 

 and a small poodle. 



About the same time a ten-ton fishing boat is said to have made the pas- 

 sage from Penzance to Australia. 



In 1867 the Nonpareil^ a life-raft constructed* of three rubber cylinders 25 

 ft. long and schooner-rigged, sailed from Boston June 4, and made the pas- 

 sage to Southampton in fifty-one days. She had three men on board, Capt. 

 Mikes, George Miller and Henry Lawson. 



The same month the John T. Ford, a schooner-rigged boat 25 ft. long, 

 sailed from Baltimore with two men on board, but capsized off Waterford, 

 on the coast of Ireland. The captain was drowned, but the other man was 

 rescued by a passing vessel. 



The City of Ragusa, sloop-rigged, 19 ft. long, 6% ft. wide and 5^ ft. deep, 

 manned by an Austrian named Primnaiz and an Englishman named Hay- 

 ter, made the passage from Liverpool to Boston in ninety-eight days, in the 

 Summer of 1870. The following year she made the passage from New York 

 to Queenstown in forty days. 



Alfred Johnsen, a Gloucester fisherman of Danish birth, was the first 

 man to cross the ocean unaccompanied even by a dog. His dory, the Cen- 

 tennial, was built in this city by Messrs. Higgins & Gifford, and was 16 ft. 

 keel, 20 ft. over all, 5)^ ft. wide and 2^ ft. deep, decked over with the 

 exception of a standing room and hatchway, sloop-rigged, with two jibs, 

 mainsail and square-sail. The Centen?iial sailed from Gloucester June 15, 

 1876, touched at Barrington, N. S., sailed again June 25, and arrived safely 

 at Liverpool, England, Aug. 21, sixty-seven days from Gloucester. Johnsen 

 was a close calculator, and his log gave evidence that he followed the gen- 

 eral route of steamship travel. Aug. 2 his boat was capsized by a heavy 

 sea, but he managed to right her. Soon after, a huge shark appeared along- 

 side, which he frightened away with a knife fastened to a pole. 



Another dory, the Brittle, Capt. Madison, attempted to make the voyage 

 from New York to Liverpool in the Summer of 1876, and was last heard 

 from in lat. 42, long. 46, where she was spoken by the ship Beethoven. The 

 Brittle was 16 ft. keel, clinker-built, sloop-rigged and decked over, with a 

 small hatchway amidships. 



The first woman to cross the Atlantic in a dory made the perilous passage 

 in 1877. On May 28 of that year Capt. and Mrs. Thomas Crapo set sail 

 from New Bedford in a boat 19.55 ^t- long, 6.4 ft. wide and 3.16 ft. deep, 

 named New Bedford. She had two masts, 18 and 17 ft. high respectively, 

 with leg-of-mutton sails. She made the passage without accident, reaching 

 Mount's Bay, near Penzance, in forty-nine days. Capt. Crapo is now (1882) 

 master of sch. Adelia Felicia of New Bedford. 



