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Sch. ELIZA JANE, 46.43 tons, owned by James Mansfield & Sons, lost 

 near Shelburne, N. S., Jan. 23. Crew saved. Value, $2,400 ; insurance, 

 $2,400. 



Sch. GEN. GRANT, 86.11 tons, owned by John Pew & Son, lost at New- 

 foundland in January. Crew saved. Value, $5,550; insurance, $2,500. 



Sch. MARY BURNHAM, 65.71 tons, owned by Harvey Knowlton, Jr., 

 lost on La Have Bank in January. Value, $4,712; insurance, $4,623. 

 Crew list — Alexander Lyle, master ; James Howard, John Willow; David S. 

 Merchant, Thomas Lauray, Lawrence McVarish, Randall McVarish, Alex- 

 ander McVarish, James Campbell, Robert King, Edward Martin. 



Sch. CLARA B. CHAPMAN, 68.19 tons, owned by Dennis & Ayer, lost 

 at Sandy Point in May. Crew saved. Value, $5,114; insurance, $4,975* 

 Wreck sold for $1,000, 



Sch. ANN MARIA, 41.78 tons, owned by Gardner K. and Howard 

 Wonson, and employed in the Georges fishery, lost on Newburyport bar 

 July 1. Crew saved with considerable difficulty. Value, $1,050; insur- 

 ance, $928. 



Sch. BELLE, 23.15 tons, owned by George R. Gates and others, lost 

 near Portsmouth, N. H., in the shore fishery, Aug. 17. Crew saved. Val- 

 ue, $750; insurance, $600. 



Three-masted sch G. P. POMEROY, 337.40 tons, lost with all her crew 

 on the passage from Brunswick, Ga., for Bath, Me., with a cargo of ship 

 timber, in an April gale. About two-thirds owned in Gloucester and one- 

 third in Manchester, Beverly, Boston and Salem. Commanded by Capt. 

 Francis A. Bryant of Gloucester. $1,500 insurance in the Gloucester Fire 

 Insurance Co., and other small amounts elsewhere. 



Lost Overboard. — Capt. Daniel M. Gray from sch. B. F. Somes, March 

 13 ; John Kennedy from sch. Adelia Hartwell, March 26 ; Manuel Veada 

 from sch. Dictator, Oct. 6 ; and Hans Antone Olsen from sch. Arizona, Nov. 

 2, all in Georges fishery. Neil McPhee from sch. Highflyer, in New York 

 harbor, in May. Walter H. Merchant from sch. Etta Gott, in the Bay St. 

 Lawrence, Sept. 22. 



Capsized in Dories. — Alphonso Babson and Gorham Parsons in Ips- 

 wich Bay, March 13. Andrew Anderson off Eastern Point, May 7. Harry 

 Miller, of sch. Eben B. Phillips, in Gloucester harbor, Oct. 10. George B. 

 Michael and William Burnham from sch. Eben B. Phillips, March 18 ; John 

 Daniels and Edward Spencer, of sch. Frederic Gerring, Jr., March 27 ; Ed- 

 ward Coles and Howard Powers from sch. Edward E. Webster, and James 

 Murphy from sch. Eben Parsons, April 12 ; Harry Richardson from sch. 

 Lizzie K. Clark, May 21 ; Lemuel Parsons and John Holmes from sch. Co- 

 rinna H. Bishop, May 30; Neil Johnson and Charles Culvert from sch. 

 Marion, June 3 ; Adolph Jackson and Matthew Huntwell from sch. Andrew 



