FIRE AT SEA
THREE DROWNED; FOUR MiISSINC
(United Preee Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)
HALIFAX (Nova Scotia); Dec. 16
A fire broke out suddenly on Friday night and burned the. Gloucester (Massachusetts) fishing schooner, ..Ellen T. Marchail, to the water's edge, off Cape Sable, Nova Steotia.; Nineteen of her crew of twenty-six were saved, including Captain Albert Hines, ,of, Boston. Eight men were piqked up by the Danish steamer Lars Kurse. Eleven made the shore in dories, after battling with wind and sea. Three were drowned when, a dory capsized, as they attempted to beach the craft. One dory, which is believed to contain the remaining four members of the crew, is still uhaccounted for.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 December 1933, Page 5
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