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sufferers. They were blanched and frozen, with barely vitality 

 enough to revive. 



Schooner Charles Haskell had a very narrow escape from founder- 

 ing. On Saturday night, during the same gale, dragged her anchors 

 and was obliged to cut. While under sail, endeavoring to get clear 

 of the fleet, came into collision with another vessel, staving her bow- 

 sprit completely through her, breaking it off, carrying away her head 

 gear ; then rising on a wave, struck her again, and it is supposed 

 that she foundered, and all on board perished. The Haskell returned 

 to port, and her disabled condition gave some idea of the violence 

 of the shock. This is the only instance known where two vessels 

 have collided on Georges and one has escaped foundering. 



The gale of March 13th, 1870, proved quite severe on Georges, 

 and the schooner Austerlitz, of this port, was so badly disabled tbat 

 it became necessary to abandon her on the Banks. On Sunday night, 

 about eleven o'clock, she was boarded by a heavy sea, when the cable 

 parted, and the schooner falling suddenly astern, brought so great a 

 strain on the rudder as to break the braces, and it was forced up 

 through the arch-board, badly damaging the stern, and causing the 

 water to pour in rapidly, when the vessel settled into the sea. No 

 time was to be lost, as the schooner was fast filling, and the crew 

 went speedily to work and shifted the fish forward to lighten her aft 

 as much as possible. The bulk-head in the cabin was then cut away 

 to get at the leak, and all the bed-clothing stuffed into the apertures, 

 which checked the flow of water considerably. By active work at the 

 pumps the vessel was kept afloat until morning, when the schooner 

 Riverdale was spoken, and, on learning their condition, took off the 

 crew. 



John Maynard, of New London, and William Corthell, of Lyme, 

 Conn., of schooner Gilson Carman, left that vessel on Georges, March 

 17th, 1869, in a dory, to haul their trawls, and, while doing so, a very 

 heavy thunder squall sprang up, driving them from the Banks. They 

 had at the time several halibut, and from sixty to seventy codfish, 

 which they had to throw overboard, with the exception of one, which 

 they retained to eat. After eating a little, it made them sick, and 

 they were obliged to throw it away. On Thursday night they saw a 

 vessel, but were unable to attract her attention ; were drifting about 

 all day Friday and Friday night, without anything to eat. On Sat- 

 urday morning a duck lit in the vicinity of the boat, which they man- 

 aged to kill, and ate it raw. On Saturday night, when they had nearly 

 given up the idea of being saved, they made a light a few miles 



