HANNAH E. SHEWBERT.
From the schooner Jennie C. May three persons were taken ashore, the vessel finally becoming a total loss. The schooner Carrie Richardson had her crew of four men taken off by the life savers, the vessel becoming a total wreck, and from the schooner Job H. Jackson, which, also, became a total wreck, the life savers, under Captain Kelley, rescued the crew of four men.
CAPT. CHARLES P. KELLEY.
Capt. Charles P. Kelley, keeper of the High Head Life-Saving Station, was born in the village of South Yarmouth, Mass., in the year 1850.
He attended the public schools in his native village until he was a young man, when he went to sea. His first experience being on a fishing vessel. Later he engaged in the coastwise service, and after a number of years joined the fleet of merchantmen which, at that time, carried on an extensive trade with the West Indies.
At the age of twenty-nine, Captain Kelley left the merchant service and joined the crew of life savers under the late Capt. David H. Atkins, at the Peaked Hill Bars Life-Saving Station.
CAPT. CHARLES P. KELLEY, KEEPER OF HIGH HEAD.
Captain Kelley was attached to the Peaked Hill Bars Station for about three years, during which time he had a number of thrilling experiences and narrow escapes from death in the performance of his duty.