Annual Report of the Operations of the United States Life-Saving Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1909:
Discovered standing into danger, and keeper set warning signal. Vessel continued her course and stranded 2-1/2 miles S. of the station. Surfboat was manned and the lifesavers went on board. It was learned that the vessel was leaking and that the crew were partly exhausted. Lifesavers boated ashore the crew and their personal effects, and they were sheltered and fed until the next day. The vessel and cargo were lost in the high sea that made up.
The crew of the O'Neil were Mate, W.R. West, Stockton, Maine, Cook, Sidney Oldroyd, England; Seamen, Hans Holverson, Norway; John Bergen, Norway; Edward R. Clark, New York; and Anderson Stolgerg, Finland.
On February 3, 1909, the schooner BELLE O'NEIL built in 1881 and owned by the Gilbert Transportation Company of New London, Connecticut, stranded at 3:30 on a clear afternoon with a moderate southwest wind. Keeper Gaskill was away from the station, leaving Number 1 Surfman Kilby Guthrie as acting keeper. His report follows:
"During the afternoon a three masted schy. was seen coming up the west side of the shoals close in. The signal J.D. was hoisted warning them of danger but she came on and run a shore about one mile off the Point of the Cape. We got out the surf boat and boarded him and found her in the leakey condition and the crew partly worn out. The Capt. lowered his boat and put the personal effects of all in his and two of the station crew and two of the salors rowed him a shore in the surf boat. The above Schr. was the BELL O'NEIL cement loaded from N.Y. bound to Savahah, Georgia." Feb 3, 1909, Kilby Guthrie, Acting Keeper
Discovered standing into danger, and keeper set warning signal. Vessel continued her course and stranded 2-1/2 miles S. of the station. Surfboat was manned and the lifesavers went on board. It was learned that the vessel was leaking and that the crew were partly exhausted. Lifesavers boated ashore the crew and their personal effects, and they were sheltered and fed until the next day. The vessel and cargo were lost in the high sea that made up.
The crew of the O'Neil were Mate, W.R. West, Stockton, Maine, Cook, Sidney Oldroyd, England; Seamen, Hans Holverson, Norway; John Bergen, Norway; Edward R. Clark, New York; and Anderson Stolgerg, Finland.
THE WRECK OF THE BELLE O'NEIL
"During the afternoon a three masted schy. was seen coming up the west side of the shoals close in. The signal J.D. was hoisted warning them of danger but she came on and run a shore about one mile off the Point of the Cape. We got out the surf boat and boarded him and found her in the leakey condition and the crew partly worn out. The Capt. lowered his boat and put the personal effects of all in his and two of the station crew and two of the salors rowed him a shore in the surf boat. The above Schr. was the BELL O'NEIL cement loaded from N.Y. bound to Savahah, Georgia." Feb 3, 1909, Kilby Guthrie, Acting Keeper
Hello. I have a letter dated 1903 written by John Hall, to his father Captain Hiram Hall, when he first took over as "Master" of the Belle O'Neill. I'm curious to find out what became of John Hall, and if he was the captain when the schooner sank.
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