HIGHLANDS OF NORTH TRURO, MASSACHUSETTS
HIGHLAND LIGHT
MAY 1st, 1928
Reprinted 1967 By
THE CHATHAM PRESS INC.
CHATHAM, MASS.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| Author’s Preface | [5] |
| Loss of the Josephus | [8] |
| The Clara Bell | [11] |
| The Loss of the Ship Peruvian | [14] |
| The Bark Francis | [18] |
| Loss of the Giovanni | [21] |
| The Jason | [24] |
| Loss of the Steamship Portland | [27] |
| The Gift of the Sea | [31] |
| A Few of the Many Deep Sea Mysteries | [34] |
| The Monte Taber | [35] |
| Loss of the Oakland | [37] |
| Loss of the Castagnia | [39] |
| Thomas W. Lawson—the Largest Schooner | [41] |
| Loss of the Ship Asia | [42] |
| Barges Wadena and Fitzpatrick | [43] |
| Story of the Sloop Trumbull | [46] |
| Wreck of the Somerset—British Man of War | [48] |
| The Mystery of the Mary Celeste | [50] |
| The Self-Steered Craft | [52] |
| Tragedy of the Herbert Fuller | [53] |
| The Job Jackson Wreck | [56] |
| Loss of the Number 238 | [57] |
| The Palmer Fleet | [59] |
| A Gale, and What it Did | [61] |
| Loss of the Montclair on Orleans Beach | [63] |
| Loss of the Reinhart at Race Point | [65] |
| Was it Murder? | [67] |
| Stranding of the Barges | [69] |
| The John Tracy Mystery | [72] |
| Wreck of the Roger Dicky | [73] |
| The Gettysburg Tow | [75] |
| Loss of the Elsia G. Silva | [77] |
| A Terrible Disaster | [78] |
| Terrible Submarine Disaster | [80] |
| Stranding of the Robert E. Lee | [85] |
PREFACE
I hardly know whether to call this a preface or part of the story, it seems rather too long for the former and too short for a chapter of the latter, but I may as well follow the general rule and call it a preface.
Friends have often said to me, “Why don’t you write some stories concerning shipwrecks which have occurred on Cape Cod?”
Perhaps one of the strongest reasons why I have not done so is because, to describe all of the sad disasters which have come under my observation during my more than half a century of service as Marine Reporting Agent, at Highland Light, Cape Cod, would make a book too bulky to be interesting, and a second reason has been the difficulty of selecting such instances as would be of the greatest interest to the general reader.
But out of the hundreds of shipwrecks which have become a part of the folk lore and history of this storm beaten coast I have finally decided to tell something of the circumstances connected with the loss of life and property in a few of the more prominent cases.