1770 — Nov, new Cushing, ME boat, The Industry, lost on first trip to Boston, MA — >13
Compiled by Wayne Blanchard; last edit 8-27-2024 for upload to: http://www.usdeadlyevents.com/
— >13 Snow. “The Industry.” Great Storms and Shipwrecks of New England, 1943, p. 184.
Blanchard note: Snow names thirteen people onboard, but writes that “Those on board included…” which leaves open the possibility that there were more than thirteen. This is why we use the symbol >, meaning “at least.”
Narrative Information
Snow. “The Industry.” Great Storms and Shipwrecks of New England, 1943, p. 184:
“One of the wrecks recounted around the firesides during the last century was that of the Industry, built at Packards’s Rock, in what is now Cushing, Maine. She was commanded by David Patterson, 2nd, who had previously coasted for some time with Reuben Hall.
“No one ever learned what happened to the Industry. She was launched late in the fall, and sailed for Boston on her first trip in November 1770. Wreckage began to come ashore along Cape Ann some time later, but no one from the Industry was ever seen again. Those on board included Major Fales and his son from Massachusetts, George Briggs, John Porterfield, Robert Gamble, John Mastick, David Malcolm, Alexander Baird, Samuel Watson, Mrs. Benjamin Packard and her child, and Abagail Patterson [12 names, to which one must add Capt. David Patterson.] The captain’s brother had been lost two years before at Mosquito Harbor with seventeen persons, all perishing.”
Sources
Snow, Edward Rowe. “The Industry.” Pp. 183-184 in Great Storms and Shipwrecks of New England. Boston: Yankee Pub. Co., 1943.