12281. (mounted photo) Steamer H.F. Dimock on the Beach in Orleans (Cape Cod) After Collision with Steamer Horatio Hall c.1909.
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12281. (mounted photo) Steamer H.F. Dimock on the Beach in Orleans (Cape Cod) After Collision with Steamer Horatio Hall c.1909.
12281. (mounted photo) Steamer H.F. Dimock on the Beach in Orleans (Cape Cod) After Collision with Steamer Horatio Hall c.1909. The dense Cape Cod fog caused this disaster on March 10, 1909 when the Boston-New York steamer H. F. Dimock collided with the steamer Horatio Hall in Pollock Rip Slue off Chatham, Mass. The Dimock could not be seen from shore because of the fog, but her distress signals were heard at the Orleans Life Saving station. Theis collision, which sent the Hall to the bottom within half an hour, forced the Dimock to run ashore six hours later on the Orleans beach, ½ mile south of the Orleans Life-Saving Station, where the remaining passengers and crew were landed without loss of life. Lifesavers from the Orleans station launched a lifeboat and rowed to the side of Dimock. Following the collision, the passengers and crew of Horatio Hall had gone aboard the Dimock as the Hall sank on Pollock Rip Shoals leaving her superstructure remaining above water. The Dimock had sustained hull damage in her bow section and was in danger of sinking so the Lifesavers landed a boatload of survivors and requested help from the Nauset and Chatham stations in saving the remainder of the people aboard the foundering steamer. The rescue work was continued and 67 persons were soon landed. The H. F. Dimock was refloated on March 14th after repairs had been made to the bow section to insure against sinking, and she was towed to Boston. Image measures 4 ¾” x 6 ¾” on 8” x 10” mount and is clear and close, just a few areas of light foxing. Light edge wear to mount. Rare Cape Cod Life-Saving shipwreck image. (VG+). $76.