Gloucester was founded in 1623 as a Massachusetts Bay Colony by the Dorchester Company from Dorchester England. The following list of ships plus crew and passenger names is taken from shipwrecks from Gloucester Massachusetts 1830 to 1873.
Source: The Fishermans' Memorial and Record Book by George H. Proctor (A list of vessels and their crews, Lost from the Port of Gloucester From the year 1830 to October 1, 1873. Embracing A Period of Nearly Half a Century comprising Fourteen Hundred and Thirty-Seven Names, and two hundred and Ninety -Six Vessels, including those lost in the Gale of August 24, 1873)
A list of vessels and their crews Lost from the Port of Gloucester, Massachusetts 1841.
Three were two vessels and eight lives lost this year as follows:
Schooner FOREST, mackereling, was lost on Cape Cod, Oct.4th with eight men: Stephen Rich, Master; Robert S. Sawyer, Asa L. Collins, Benjamin Robinson, Joseph Gerring, Francis Wlliams, John Quincy Adams, Abraham Obr. Owned by the master and Messrs. Giles & Wonson. Valued at $2,500. and uninsured.
Boat JACK DOWNING, lost at Annisquam. Crew Saved. Owned by Daniel Robinson. Valued at $225; insured for $150.
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Gloucester was founded in 1623 as a Massachusetts Bay Colony by the Dorchester Company from Dorchester England. The following list of ships plus crew and passenger names is taken from shipwrecks from Gloucester Massachusetts 1830 to 1873.
Source: The Fishermans' Memorial and Record Book by George H. Proctor (A list of vessels and their crews, Lost from the Port of Gloucester From the year 1830 to October 1, 1873. Embracing A Period of Nearly Half a Century comprising Fourteen Hundred and Thirty-Seven Names, and two hundred and Ninety -Six Vessels, including those lost in the Gale of August 24, 1873)
A list of vessels and their crews Lost from the Port of Gloucester, Massachusetts 1841.
Three were two vessels and eight lives lost this year as follows:
Schooner FOREST, mackereling, was lost on Cape Cod, Oct.4th with eight men: Stephen Rich, Master; Robert S. Sawyer, Asa L. Collins, Benjamin Robinson, Joseph Gerring, Francis Wlliams, John Quincy Adams, Abraham Obr. Owned by the master and Messrs. Giles & Wonson. Valued at $2,500. and uninsured.
Boat JACK DOWNING, lost at Annisquam. Crew Saved. Owned by Daniel Robinson. Valued at $225; insured for $150.
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