Online Resouces: Collections and Research

• Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Perils Attending the Fisheries
  • List of the Names of Twelve Hundred and Sixty-five Men and Two Hundred and Eighty Vessels Lost in the Fisheries
  • Table of Recapitulation
  • On Georges in the Terrible Gale of February 24th, 1862. The experience of one who was there for the first and last time.
  • The Mackerel Fishers. Giving an Account of its Commencement and Progress, with Statstics of the Catch for the past thirteen years.
  • The Haddock, Pollock, Cod and Halibut Fisheries, Giving an Account of the First Trips to Georges for Codfish
  • The Commerce of Gloucester and the Fisheries
  • The Winter Fishery of 1846, a Comparison between Then and Now, showing the wonderful Increase of this Branch of the Business
  • "Uncle Charlie's" Recollections of the Old Pinkey and Jigger Fleets; also, of the Square Sterners, Half-Clipper Model Fishing Vessels
  • Account of the First Trips to Georges and Halibut
  • Incidents of the Gale of September 8th, 1869
  • Sea Fish and Fisheries
  • Big Trips in the Bank, Georges, Mackerell and Haddock Fisheries
  • How the Pinkey Charles weathered it
  • Loss of Two Rockport Vessels. Thrilling Narrative of Mr. Charles Jordan, sole survivor of the crew of Schooner Helen Eliza. His Perilous Position and Wonderful Escape
  • Fishermen's superstitions. A Remarkable Verifications of Dreams. Wonderful Presentiment
  • Greenland and Iceland Halibut Fisheries
  • Estimated Products of the Fisheries for the year 1872. Tonnage Statistics
  • Remarkable Escapes of Schooners Onward and Seddie C. Pyle on Georges. Loss of Schooner A. R. Andrews, and Rescue of her Crew. Lost in the Fog. Rescued from the Jaws of Death. Comprising the Details of Narrow Escapes by the Fishermen
  • The Pirate Tacony's Raid upon the Fishermen
  • A Valuable Branch of Industry
  • Recapture of Schooner E. A. Horton from the Custody of the Dopminion Government. A Daring Act by a Yankee Skipper and his Crew
  • The Severe Storm of 1839
  • Fishermen's children Playing on the Beach
  • The Cape Ann Fishermen of To-Day
  • How Harry G. came to Sign the Pledge
  • Picking the Nets and Trawls,in which we find a good haul of Sketches, In Acidents and Facts, relative to the Fisherman and his Occupation
  • Dashings of Spray from Wavelets of Maritime Poetry by Home Authors
  • A Musical Fisherman. His First Violin. Early Struggles. His Cruise in The Rival. Shipwrecked Yankee fishermen Giving Concerts in the Provinces
  • Loss of Schooner Neptune's Bride. Two of the Crew saved. Eighteen hours on the Mast -Head. A Perilous Passage
  • Leaves from the Log Book of Captain James Pattillo. How he served a Dominion Officer who Boarded the Schooner Abigail. Puts to Sea in the Teeth of a Gail and outsails the Cutter. How he gets a Load of Herring for Schooner Tiger.
  • "Here comes Father's Vessel"
  • Appendix
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Fishermen's Memorial and Record Book - Procter, George H