Year: 1861

Brief mention has been made in the marine
news department OF the daily journals. of IA dis
aster to the schooner Georgidnd, Levi Creed,
master, of Cohasset, on the llth of May. The
whole story OF this disaster, as we have heard it
from the best authority, sounds more like romance
than realty-so much ao that we nvountarily
wrote the captain above when we sat down to in
dite this article


The Georgana was on fishing cruise along
the coast between Cape Cod and Montauk Point,
the eastern extremity of Long Island, and while
lying to under lib and iOresail, at O'Clock o. m
on the day above mentioned, twenty five miles
northwest of Montauk. the bark lPiiliam Lord,
hound from Baltimore to Boston, struck her
amidships, saving her bulworks and giving her
! II severe shock, The crew numbering about six
teen persons in all, were asleep in their hunks
below, with the exception of the watch on deck
who was probably as sound asleep, rs any other
person on board Immediately every man rushed
on deck, and concluding that the schooner would
soon go down, scrambled on board the bark while
the two vessels were yet afoul Of each other The
night was very dark. and in II few minutes the
schooner had disappeared.


When the excitement was over Captain Creed
asoertained that boy IL years old named An
drew A. Prouty, had been leit on hoard the schoo-
ner. An effort was made to induce the captain
of the bark to lie by till morning. hat he refused,
being quite positive in the belief that the sohoon-
er sank Immediately after the collision. And so
the bark sailed TO Holmes Hole, and left young
Prouty to bis fate


The boy thus left alone in shattered vessel,
did not waken until about o'clock In the morn
| ing. lie went on deck, and finding that the
whole crew had disappeared, he concluded that
they had been taken and carried away, or thrown
overheard by Jelf. Davis prlvateors, of whom he
heard the men talk Frequently during the cruise.
| lie congratulated himself on his own safety, and
attributed 10 to the fact that his berth in the oah.
in was concealed by table standing in front of
it. His next thought was what was to be done
lie remembered haaring the captain and crew
speak of a point in northcastcrly direction as
being not far distant, and he took the helm aud
steered that way.


There he was, a dozen year old boy, alone upon
the wide ocean, and be behaved like hero, in
stead of abandoning himself in parOxysm of
terror to the fragile fate which might have befall
en- him if he had left the vessel to drift at the
mercy of verythng in and ON the sea, and Of the
winds above it, be slezed the helm aud steered on
to the point where he supposed safety mig ht be
secured. Believing, as he did the whole ships
crew had fallen at the mercy Of the pirates, his
GOODNESS and presence of mind was remarkable.


While prosecuting his lonesome voyage in u
thick fog, the boy Prouty was spoken by the
whaleship Marcia, bound into New Bedford The
Marcia wanted potatoes and vegetables, but
young Prouty objected to their coming on board
They asked for the Captain, aud he at first told
them he was asleep below. The truth was that
the young sailor feared that the Marcia might
also be IA privateer. boat was sent alongside,
and the child master said they might come on
board if they would not kill him. lie quickly
disclosed rything-that the whole crew Of the
schooner had disappeared while he asleep,
and he supposed they had been murdered by jeff.
Davis prvateersmen. lie was taken in tow by
the Marcia and carried into New Bedford No
damage had been done to the schooner, except
stavlng her bulwarks and the captain of the Mar
cia believes that the boy would have brought his
craft safely to port without assistance, and made
him Il present Of 5 100 this was followed by con
tributions from the maratime citizens OF New
Bedford to the amount Of $780, aud the captain
of the Marcia was appointed trustee of the fund
until the brave sailor boy attains his majority
The schooner Georgana was valued, with her
outfit $1,000 Boston Herald.