Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-22
IN BREECHES BUOY.
Schooner Nellie Lamper a Total
Wreck Off Nauset Lights.
Crew Taken OF by Life Saving Men
in the Breaches Buoy.
Numerous Other Wrecks Reported Along Shore
in The Heavy Gale.

Orleans, Mass, Oct. 21.-After being
dismasted by the northeast hurricane,
last night, the three masted schooner
Nellie LampeF, Capt Mclean, st. John
for New York, was blown into the
breakers off Nauset Lights, about noon
today, and, an hour afterwards, was a
total wreck while the crew of seven
men were taken off just before the YES
sci went to pieces.
The schooner was first sighted by the
observer at Highland Light about 8
o'clock, and at that time both her main
and mizzen-masts had gone by and she
was being driven before the gale with
only her foremost standing and that
swaying in the wind. About 10 o'clock
the men at the Nauset life saving sta
ton caught sight of her, flying along
with the foremost still standing the
crew making every effort to keep a lit
tie sail on the mast, with a faint hope
of keeping her head off shore. The
wind at the time was bowling from the
northeast and blew diagonally on shore
so that there was slight prospect that
she might get by Pollock Rip without
striking the shoals.
Just off the Nauset Lights, the
weakened foremost gave one lurch and
then fell with crash over the bows
and Immediately after the schooner.
now left without sail to catch the
wind. drove rapidly toward the break
ers and in few minutes was pounding
her life out on the treacherous sands
short distance off shore. Captain
Bearse of the station, had in the mean
time assembled his crew on the beach
and within Is minutes after the vessel
struck the first lifeline had been shot
over her, and the crew were hauling in
the hawser.
There was just enough of the stump
of the foremost left on which to fasten
the hawser, and the breeches buoy was
then pulled aboard. 1t was the work of
a very few minutes after that for the
life saving men to pull the crew ashore.
one at a time and within an hour after
she struck, everyone of the seven men
was on dry land Every man ex-
pressed himself as particularly grateful
for the rescue, especially. when short
time afterwards they saw their. ship
pounded to pieces on the shoals and her
remains together with her cargo of
pics dIoIiS Tie SIlpIt.
Captain Mclean stated that he had
good passage until last night.
when about SO miles from High
land Light. the wind began to blow
hard from the northeast. The schooner
staggered on before the gale, until
shortly before daylight a heavy squall
struck her, and the main and mizzen-
masts went over. weakening the fore
mast and carrying away some of the
standing rigging of that mast. The
crew endeavored to keep little sail
on her and passed Highland Light with
some prospect of being able to keep her
off shore.
The fall of the foremost, however,
settled her fate. and Capt. Mclean said
that it was a toss up whether any of
them would reach shore. All seven of
the men were cared for, tonight, at the
life saving station, and will leave for
Boston in the morning. The crew lost
all their effects.
The Lamper was good sized vessel.
100 feet over all. and 314 tons burden.
She was built at Mystic, CT, in 1873.
and was down in the maritime register
as hailing from Chicago.