The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-12
Small Naval Craft Is
Capsized.
CAPTAINS FAMILY SAVED
Lfe-Saving Crew Picks Up Officers
In Bay,
Heavily Laden Naval Tug II swamDsa
BY waves-Captain Pats Wife
and Son In Boat ana
Takes To Raft. .

Rockport. Mass. Aug. 1.-THE nae
val tug Nezinscot. bound from Ports
mouth to Boston. capsized or Cape Ann
at an early hour today. ana several
Of her crew were drowned. The sec-
ond officer. captains wife, her little
boy and four OF the crew landed on the.
cape on the tugs boat.
The captain. surgeon. engineer and
three other members Of the crew. who
took to the raft. were blown on shore
and this morning q dozen Rockport
fishing boats were searching for them
In Massachusetts, bay.
The Nezinscot left Portsmouth az .
a. m. today with Q cargo of anchors
anchor chains and search lights. fol
the battleship Missouri. The tug was
a boat OF low free board and her cargo
brought her down until her decks were
nearly awash. She was manned by hye
Officers and q crew OF about ten men.
Captain Evans. who was in command.
halls from Quincy. Mass.
A westerly gale was blowing whom
the Nezinscot left Portsmouth. 30 Cap
tain Evans Rugged the shore as far
as Ipswich. Then he headed across for
she met rising seas and began to roll.
on Halibut Point . big sea bore the
little boat over until the water food
ed her engine room and she became
helpless.
Puts Family fate Boat.
Captain Evans ordered the single
boat carried to DO lowered and put In
It the second officer and the captains
wife and little boy. Scarcely had the
he NzN ~
zinscot lurched and plunged under the
waves. The captain. surgeon. engi-'
neer and three or four OF the crew
managed 10 haul themselves aboard
a life raft. There IL was found that
three OF the tugs men had gone down.
As the Nezinscot's boat was being
rowed towards the shore the life RAFT
was driven seward by the gaze. The
boat landed at Lanesviilr at T:a0 a. m.
and the second officer immediately mo-
tined the two life saving stations. The
tug M. Mitchell Davis left at once IA
search OF the Nexfnscot'e raft
At q. m. the gale was still blowing
but the wind had worked more 10 che
northward. which the fishermen here
said, made II possible that tho lie
raft would be blown across Massas
chusetts Bay and make a landing
somewhere inside of Cape Coo.
Z~R@NAN &|FAAn aAhQ G<n&AAcGE 33GLEEfN
were picked up by the Delivers Neck
life saving crew and landed here al
1850 a. m. DR.. Trotter was washed
on the grating and drowned The
men were picked up inside of Ipswich
Day about four miles OF shore.
Those lost were:
Charles F. Trotter. acting assistant
surgeon.
G. L Taylor. ordinary seaman.
e. F Whffa c0lnHa.l .bg.sn
first class.
l. r. Edwards. coIored, seaman.
captain Evans and Machinists Mate
A. Belfric, were taken from an oak
grating by a life saving Grew after
they had been IN the water nearly five
hours and had seen DR.. Trotter washed
off into the sea.
Chief Boatswains Mate #. r.. Bitter
struggled an hour with Mrs. Evans ana
the boy on a narrow plank. Engines
Pratt and three seamen managed to
gain the ships boat after the sinking
of the tug. and righting her, hauled
Bitter, Mrs. Evans and the boy on
board and then rowed ashore.
Receive Official Report.
Washington. Aug. 1.-THE capsix.
ing of the naval tug Nezinscot off
Rockport. Mass. occurred about sac
o'clock this morning according to q
Geographic report to the navy depart.
nent from Admiral Moore, the com.
mandant OF the Portsmouth navy yard.
Acting Assistant Surgeon Trotter, OF
the navy, who was drowned, entered
the naval service last April and was
on duty at the naval hospital at
Portsmouth. N. H. His home was In
Franklin, N. c. The three men who
were drowned were hired as civilians
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