Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-02-06
TELLS TRAGIC STORY OF
SHIP CAPTAINS Death
Died Following Wreck of
Schooner in Pocomoke
Sound Jan. %.
CREW OF CRAFT SURVIVES
Comrades Curry skipper Through
Miles or Winter md snow, After lie
iinu BecOmc Exhausted From
Cold,
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ONANCOCk. VA. Feb. 4.-In all
mo annals OF they who go down TO
INC sea In ships scant notice is paid
TO that hardy race OF searncn who
Hirt with danger on tho trcacherous
waters Of the Chcasapcakc Bay in
thcir PUNCHES. bugcycs and small and
largo power boats.
To this town has Just como n grim
tale Of suffering and courage follow
ing the laundering of the power
schooner Morning Light In POGO
moke Sound in the gale OF January
27-2S. and the death Of her master,
captain Irving Insiey.
LOADED with Lumber.
Loaded with lumber. tho Schooner
LETT the upper reaches OF the sound
Friday afternoon. bound for Snlis-
bury. Md. and as the run was n short
one. there was no doubt in the minds
or those on board that they would
make the home port before the
threatening storm broke.
= h"for" they had proceeded far. tho
wind Increased TO a gale accompa-
nicd by binding auowstorm. 4
huge sea swept the anchor over the
bow. where It hung until II had
pounded hol" In the hull and the
turning LiHht scttled until tho
water reached her engine.
Captain Inslcy and his crew of two
inen. Walter Nibbictt. 20. and Ed
ward Nlbhlctt, 80. launched the yawl
ana In fcw moments lost sight OF
INC larger vessel. All sense OF d.
r"ction was soon lost. and the bc-,
th"y could do. Was 10 take turns at
IN" oras and baling. To keep from
.reczing 10 death and trust In soa-
mans luck that tho wind would blow
mem som" place on the bay shore
Cheers Compnnionx.
throughout those terrible hours
captain 1nslcy kept cheering his TWO
companions by telling that an East
"rn shore man IL never drowned
sunday morning abou, daybrcak the
boat WAS b.ach.d on strip OF marsh
known ns lialfMoon Island, and the
half-irozcn men struggled through
the lcc-hllcd shadows for mile un :
~ They reached comparatively high
land. This gave them br.,,hfoy
spell. hu, knowing that to remain
mere meant death. they began n
weary march. keeping tho wind on
their backs as a guide.
u WIS not many hours before Can
'hin insicy stumbled and fell. and
though he begged his companions 20
i'Av" him aud look out for them
1899 'l'F purity dTagged and par ]
carried him. chatting his Limbs now
ana then IN keep him awake, lie
nc'"n" unconscious, and then they
placed him on their shoulders and
kept on AT their heart breaking task
of hnhing shelter.
water Up To Shoulders,
Az times with the burden on their
shoulders, they waded through IN,
swallows. now alled with water and
'cc above their shoulders. Twice
'her sank over their heads through
rench"rous ice. but never thought
oil leaving their captain
Late sunday evening. mn oyster.
man IN HIS house nrsr Hunting
creek. many miles from where the
men had landed. heard. above the
roar ot the gale. q sound as II som,
one vase !uinh!ing AT The door and.
opehing ~, three men pitched Into
the room and lay on the moor. lie
soon revived the two N!bhlets. bu,
me captain was beyond help. though
,hey made heroic efforts 10 keen
MIN alive. He rogaincd conscious
ness b"t onca 70 say TO those bend .
Ing over him: Tell my sweetbesr,
said good-hy."
Captain lnsl-y was IS years old
and native o. Salisbury and was
To u. married To n girl In his homo
Town this week lIn and tho Nib
o!etts were neighbors.
Inc schooner. which IS owned nv
Disharoon Brothers. OF SALISBURY
was kept ahoat by her cargo and Is
stranded on Tangier Island. total
wreck.