15258. (article) Rescued from the “Graveyard of Cape Cod” – Steamer Thistlemore runs aground off Peaked Hill Bars. 1922.
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15258. (article) Rescued from the “Graveyard of Cape Cod” – Steamer Thistlemore runs aground off Peaked Hill Bars. 1922.
15258. (article) Rescued from the “Graveyard of Cape Cod” – Steamer Thistlemore runs aground off Peaked Hill Bars. 1922. Popular Mechanics Magazine. April 1922. 1p. disbound. One page include three photos and describes the rescue of twenty-five sailors rescued using a Breeches Buoy. On this day in 1922, the British steamer Thistlemore ran aground at Peaked Hill Bars 100 yards from shore during a nor’easter. A more bleak or dangerous stretch of coast can hardly be found in the United States than at this station. The coast near the Peaked Hill Bar Life Saving Station (below) rightly bears the name ‘ocean graveyard’. This was one of the original nine lifesaving stations which were erected on Cape Cod in 1872. Capt. Emanual Gracie of the Peaked Hill Bars Coast Guard Station set up breeches buoy apparatus and rescued 25 of the 44-member crew, with the remaining nineteen crewmen staying on board. On Feb. 12, tugboats managed to free the ship from the sandbar. A far more dire outcome had been initially predicted for the Thistlemore. In a Feb. 8 dispatch, the Associated Press reported that the vessel was “breaking up amidships and not expected to last until daylight, according to a wireless message intercepted” at a naval radio station. Good close views. 6 ½” x 9 ½”. (VG+) $18.