Title:
Loss of schooner Bacon at Weekapaug in 1933
Author:
Carol W. Kimball
Subjects:
Three-masted schooner Granville R. Bacon grounded.
Rescue at Weekapaug (1933).
Rescue at Weekapaug (1933).
Object ID:
Kim03-004
Object Name:
Scrapbook
Category:
8: Communication Artifact
Subcategory:
Documentary Artifact
Publisher:
The Day
Publication Place:
New London, CT
Pubication Date:
05/11/1989
Collection:
Carol W. Kimball
Summary:
Thomas Hartley, a coast guardsman from the Quonochontaug station spots distress signals from Captain George Jones and his crew, out of Camden Maine, aboard the three-masted schooner Granville R. Bacon (built in Bethel, Delaware in 1911), who are then rescued from being grounded at Weekapaug in the storm of December 1933. The rescue work was directed by Chief Boatswain Arthur E. Larkin and Boatswain's Mate Howard Johnson.
People:
Jones, George (Capt.)
Hartley, Thomas
Larkin, Arthur
Johnson, Howard
Hall, Morton
Wagner, Charles
Johanson, Emil
Thorson, Alfred
Moore, William Thomas
Hartley, Thomas
Larkin, Arthur
Johnson, Howard
Hall, Morton
Wagner, Charles
Johanson, Emil
Thorson, Alfred
Moore, William Thomas
Search Terms:
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Weekapaug
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Quonochontaug
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