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From: "gerry" <>
Subject: The Unknown (Newfoundland Sealer?)
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 12:46:14 -0500

Daily Times - 11 May 1914
Charlottetown, P.E.I., May 9. - On Saturday morning a lobster fisherman
employed at S.C. Clark's factory at Blooming Point on the north side of the
island found the dead body of a man frozen fast in a floating ice cake about
half a mile from land. Having nothing in his boat with which to cut the
body loose from the ice the fisherman had to abandon it, a heavy gale coming
up, the boat had to make for land and could not return to the body which was
carried out to sea. The
dead man was evidently a sailor or a fisherman, judging from his clothing,
and the theory is that it was one of the Newfounfland sealers who perished
in the recent disaster.

Gerry M.F.

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