HISTORY OF SEAWRECKS
SARAH B LAWRENCE
Delaware Breakwater,
Delaware 10 February 1910 :
A 60 mph terrific gale
wind has the four masted schooner Sarah B. Lawrence, out of
Newport News, for Boston, with a cargo of coal, aground on the
Hen and Chicken Shoal
of Cape Henlopen and is
being pounded to pieces by the wild surf.
The crew of nine men and
the captains wife were taken from her just as she broke in
half by Cape Henlopen
Life Savers and landed at Lewes.
The government wireless
system was put in action and calls were made from Sandy
Hook to Norfolk for
cutter assistance. The Cape Henlopen Life Savers needed the help
of a Breakwater tug to get their launch to the schooner for the
rescue which was sinking as they
reached the her. The crew
and lady were huddled on the fore house of the sunken vessel.
Ropes and life preservers
were brought into use. The rescue took several hours to effect
and the survivors were
made comfortable it the tug then landed at Lewes.
Abstract: Washington.
D.C. Evening Star, Wednesday, 10 February, 1909.
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