Identifier: reviewofreviewsw33newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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A TYPICAL CREW OF A GLOUCESTER FISHING VESSEL. NEW-ENGLANDS DEEP-SEA FISHING INTERESTS. 565
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UNLOADING AND WEIGHING CODFISH IN THE HARBOR OF GLOUCESTER. and become derelicts ; more escape after themost amazing experiences. A few will makefor land, only, perhaps, to be wrecked with allhands in sight of their very homes ; others runseaward and perish with none to tell how, orare rescued by some steamer along the greattrade route many days after. For the pastfifty years Gloucester has averaged more thanone hundred lives annually lost from among herfishing fleet from various causes. The CoraMcKay, a splendid new ship, never came backwith her twenty-two men ; the Emulator struckon a north-shore reef and but two out of eight-een were rescued. Thus it goes, year afteryear, the Storm King taking his ample toll. In these off-shore gales, when vessels are themere sport of the elements, woe betide the luck-less wights who are caught by the tempestwhen afar in their dories at work upon theirtrawls, for unless they can reach some shelteringdeck their doom is sealed. Trawls are longropes t

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