16250b. (lot 5 photos & 1 account) Wreck of the Lizzie Carr at Wallis Sands, Rye NH. c.1905.
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16250b. (lot 5 photos & 1 account) Wreck of the Lizzie Carr at Wallis Sands, Rye NH. c.1905.
16250b. (lot 5 photos & 1 account) Wreck of the Lizzie Carr at Wallis Sands, Rye NH. c.1905. Rare lot includes four older 5” x 7” and one 8” x 10” copy photos of the life-savers as they examine the wreck and search for the missing mate lost during the wreck. Also includes account taken from the Life-Saving Service Annual Report regarding the rescues. The two-masted schooner Lizzie Carr, bound from Calais, Maine for New York, with lumber, stranded on Foss Ledge during a heavy southeast gale and rainstorm on the morning of January 7, 1905. Crews from three life-saving stations worked to exhaustion attempting to save the crew on board as the wreck was pounded to pieces. Of the seven men on board, all except the mate were rescued and brought to shore. The mate had attempted to swim to shore when the vessel struck but was carried away by the sea and never found. Important lot. (VG+). $74.