Plymouth memories of an octogenarianDavis, William T. (William Thomas)
History
Plymouth memories of an octogenarian
Davis, William T. (William Thomas)
Plymouth (Mass.) -- History
Linnet, Wm. Langford, master, was lost with all hands, in September,
1870.
Martha Washington, Capt. Gooding, was lost in Nova Scotia in 1874.
Mary A. Taylor, Lewis King, master, was lost or sold in Nova Scotia
in 1874.
May was lost in 1871.
Ocean, Jerry McCuskey, master, was lost in Nova Scotia in 1870.
Olive Branch was lost in 1869.
President, John Ellis Bartlett, master, lost in 1828, bound to
Martinique.
President, Stephen D. Drew, master, was lost on Cape Cod in 1844.
Rollins, Charles Harlow, master, was lost on Cape Cod in 1868.
Seadrift was lost or sold in 1871 in Nova Scotia.
Speedwell was lost in the West Indies in 1865.
Swallow was lost or sold in Nova Scotia in 1871.
Thatcher Taylor, James Simmons, was lost or sold in 1871.
Fearless, Capt. George N. Adams, sailed from Boston for Aux Cayes,
August 13, 1862, and was never heard from.
John Eliot, Francis H. Weston, master, sailed from Boston October 9,
1863, for Cape Haytien, and crew taken off November 21 by schooner
Thrasher, and landed at Port Spain.
Mary Holbrook, was lost in the Gulf, January 25, 1831.
Joshua Bates was lost on Richmond Island in February, 1876.
Franklin was lost at the Western Islands in 1837.
George Henry, Lamberton, master, was condemned in West Indies, 1869.
Vesper, Capt. Burgess, sailed from New York, February 28, 1846, for
Jamaica, and was lost probably in a gale March 2.
Flora, Benjamin Jenkins, master, was spoken August 8, 1846, with
15,000 fish; August 21, with 21,000; August 28, with 23,000;
September 17, with 30,000, and was probably lost in a gale which
occurred September 19, 1846.
Coiner, Samuel Rogers, master, was lost on a passage home from Inagua
in 1865.
Stranger was lost at sea near St. Thomas, 1835.
Oronoco was lost in 1871.
Schooner Maracaibo, changed to a brig before she entered the whale
fishery, has been earlier mentioned without any details of her
loss. She sailed from Plymouth on a whaling voyage September 12,
1846. On the 19th, in latitude 38.22, and longitude 72.35, she
was capsized, losing second mate, Wm. Tripp, of Tiverton, David
Sylvia seaman, and George Ellis of Plymouth, also a seaman, who was
drowned in the forecastle. The masts went by the board, and the brig
righted, and Capt. Collingwood and eighteen men were lashed to the
wreck ninety-six hours with only a barrel of sugar to eat. On the
twenty-third they battened down the hatches and bailed the vessel
out, and on the twenty-fourth set up jury masts. On the twenty-fifth
they obtained from the bark Newton of New Bedford two spars and gear,
and a quadrant, and finally, after being on the wreck twenty-one
days, were taken off by the bark Clement.
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