Word: reefs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Rupert Sargent, formerly of the class of '84, was drowned during the month of August while yachting with three other gentlemen, one of whom was an older brother. The Yacht Mystery sailed from New Haven bound for Nantucket but was swamped near the reef known as the Hen and Chickens. All the passengers were lost. The Mystery was last seen by the sloop, Amelia Powell, as she was passing between Gooseberry neck and the Hen and Chickens on the morning of August 12. The following account of the probable manner of her loss is by one of the gentlemen...
...over three-quarters of a mile from the main land, and if he determined to swim to the shore the wind and tide were against him; so he was obliged to abandon the attempt and strike out for the rocks known as the Hen and Chickens reef although they were in a very poor place for refuge and people acquainted with the rocks say it is impossible that a man should climb on the rocks and remain there. He did reach them. He succeeded in getting on to one of the smaller rocks and looked about for assistance...
...German ship Lizette was seen in the ice off St. John's last Sunday evening, with signs of distress. Tuesday morning tugs found her sunk on a reef. Five dead bodies have come ashore, and it is believed that all were lost...