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Hm t _ Aenimncenmncnante mosp "““T"’f";’_’i_',’,f/:"l“ yeâ€" ,* It was everything above deck in| Rhcaos in es hn AmOK s i & the Tranchemontagne, perhaps even P s e neweinNi is 1 2000 ’} $ the deck itself, eventually, that washâ€"| Pss 20e ' & a* ed over the breakwater â€" including ! '-" oual l } $# _____ the crew. ) K. $7 Dt /+i e “; * 7 There is also a legend that Ed fuytale se 4| $# 4 BRIGHTON CAPTAIN Cook, later Captain Cook, rode over (g2, “l (easuiey ; %>, ‘ FEATURED IN STORY | | trunlelike provision box which stood| e x2 il. 2 % se The following story of the wreck\\on deck forward of the galley, in o e of the schooner Tranchemontagne at those preâ€"refrigerator . days. Five wenes - mSe® @. Oswego in 1880 appeared in Schooner others were hurled over the brealâ€" * ; ies Days in the Toronto Telegram last|| water, amid. the crash of falling 5 ces Saturday. It is of interest to local masts, rending batches, burst bul k. ;_“._b,g,@f;éi eaders in that her captain, the late|| warks and the stovein. cabin. ’ it william Sherwood, was, a native. of Sylvester Brothers lost $10, 000 % a % is hf 4 f * Lo 40 spil s pameatis en Vetl Brighton. property in ten seconds. Marvelously, e Sn t i | The F. E. Tranchemontagne . Was) not one life was lost. Capt. Sherwood t tmb Â¥4i% %' one of three vessels built at the port and his whole crew were picked up + es i FPD I of Lanoraie on the St. Lawrence Rivâ€"‘ by the tugs that huddled inside | hk er i er in 1864 and found employment in‘ waiting for an easy fee when b), fec o on +Otoadie ( Haste the great lumber trade out of Port courageously plunging out into the Infonadeii s e nanc n hn T aatte at i Hope. She was noted for the luxurious . es s MWM | ifittings of her cabin, which would| lake they might have saved the ship ..3.';;“',.'._.'t,'.’;;-;'if-_’_"_‘;;.;;- s have suited a yacht. { herself from death. wWAR REMINDER â€" Bombâ€" She was fast, but perhaps becausell__â€"_â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"_â€"_Lâ€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"__â€" ing range observation towers of her shallow hold and considerable| stfil Sl{lfifl on "The Bluff" of | deadrise, somewhat . under. Above Prince Edward County west! Port Credit in a hard northâ€"west puff of Consecon. The old wood) she eapsized once when Capt. James lowers | were used during] Jackson had her, and her cook was . World War 2 to sight practice t drowned in the cabin, though all on bombing manceuyres. .. [decimescapea with theirLves. 3 This was probably when she. was owned by. H. B. Rathbone, of Hastâ€" f ‘~|ings, lumber merchant. She did not A Isink, either because of the buoyancy 4 1of her cargo or her tamarac conâ€"‘ 7 istructirm, and Sylvester Brothers of! ‘â€"|Foronto became her owners. . Capt. William Sherwood of Brighton sailed her in the Sylvester‘s employ; a Godâ€" ‘fearing mariner who would not pull ; |out on a Sunday, however fair the J l wind and weather. Yet, his season‘s | ;record of trips was always as good | as anyone else‘s The Tranchemontagne was coming {along some miles astern of the Flora, $ \‘bound for Oswego, on October 31. 1880. Like the Flora, she was reefed. | bubbeing a larger vessel and holding up well to weather of the entrance, | ‘Capt Sherwood did not think it neeâ€" = essary to pile on more canvas to drive her in. He remembered too that she ‘Thad once capsized. She hesitated, and could not stem the turmoil at the critical spot. She . |broached to, and wind and wave cast R * \her, head on, against the breakwater \ west of the entrance, which she had thus vainly weathered: She cracked like an egg. ‘ Legend has persisted that she leapt + the breakwater on one mountainou I |sea and plunged into the inner harâ€" ' |bor, The same story is told of the\ . \Two Brothers at Oswego, and of the 4 iB. W. Folger at Sodus or Charlotte, ) ; > \sixty years ago, but still lacks conâ€" *b a _ Nepghs 5. se 5 & e 4* .2 A { j esn 5* & } S gA e o. , s t «mm