. Wrecks around Nantucket since the settlement of the island, and the incidents connected therewith, embracing over seven hundred vessels . wrecking crew from town. August 25th, schooner Julia E. Pratt, Britt, of Boston,boundfrom Calais, Me., to Bridgeport,Conn.,with a cargo of lumber, struckon Great Point Rip about 2 oclock in the morning and bilged. Thecrew took to their boat and were picked up off Tuckernuck shoal bysteamer Marthas Vineyard on her way hence. The vessel went to pieces. 1887. March 13th, schooner James Watson, Holder, of and from , N. B., to New York with a cargo of 1,
. Wrecks around Nantucket since the settlement of the island, and the incidents connected therewith, embracing over seven hundred vessels . wrecking crew from town. August 25th, schooner Julia E. Pratt, Britt, of Boston,boundfrom Calais, Me., to Bridgeport,Conn.,with a cargo of lumber, struckon Great Point Rip about 2 oclock in the morning and bilged. Thecrew took to their boat and were picked up off Tuckernuck shoal bysteamer Marthas Vineyard on her way hence. The vessel went to pieces. 1887. March 13th, schooner James Watson, Holder, of and from , N. B., to New York with a cargo of 1,000 barrels of lime and129,000 laths, having encountered heavy weather in the sound andpounded over some of the shoals and sprung a leak, was run ashore onGreat Point near the Glades, to prevent her sinking. The sea made aclean breach over her when she struck. The captain and two menmade their way out to the end of the bowsprit, which overhung thebeach, and dropped. The mate had previously perished from exhaustionand his body was swept overboard. He was subsequently picked up a5 > O P = ^ T- H p, K b PI a. fo 3 w IS TJ to O o 5-^. 109 at Quidnet. The lime took fire and vessel and cargo were partiallyconsumed. April 2d, three-masted schooner Mattie W. Atwood, New-combe, 620 tons, in ballast, from Boston for Norfolk, Va., partedfrom her moorings in the sound and drove ashore in the night on thenorth side of the island, west cf Capaum pond,during a violent was gotten off on the 5th by the assistance of a wrecking crew,the salvors being awarded $900. April 5th, the masts of a three-masted sunken schooner weresighted from Siasconset just east of Bass Rip. A boats crew fromQuidnet went to the vessel, but were unable to ascertain her was subsequently identified as the Cora Etta, Fales, of andfrom Rockland, Me.; for New York with a cargo of lime. The crewhad evidently abandoned her when she sunk and perished. April 26th, schooner Lawrence Hines, with a cargo of ic
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