Sussex County DE Archives News.....Bertrand, Marshall, Andreas Hensen & Alfred Swansen Boat Pilots Missing November 27, 1884
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The Times (Philadelphia, PA) Nov 27, 1884 November 27, 1884
THE MISSING SAILORS
A Fruitless Search for Pilot Bertrand and His Two Companions.
Special Dispatch to the Times.
                               Wilmington, November 26
It is believed that Marshall Bertrand, of Lewes, and two Norwegian sailors
have been drowned in Delaware Bay off Five-father Lightship, about
twenty-five miles from Lewes. Early Monday morning they manned a skiff
and left the pilot-boat Turley for the purpose of taking Pilot Thomas
Marshall to the steamer Pennsylvania, which was bound for Philadelphia.
Although at the time it was very dark and tempestuous, they succeeded
in performing this duty and started back to the pilot ship, but they
never reached it. From the time they departed from the steamer nothing
has been heard from them.
Several pilot-boats have searched diligently for them, but a single oar is
the only traces that has been discovered. One boat has just returned
from a fruitless cruise of over three hundred miles.
The missing men have not been seen for sixty hours and as a great storm
has been prevailing most of the time it is reasonable to presume that
they are lost. Bertrand is about 23 years old and has been a pilot for
only ten months.


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