C.E. Russell Proprietor, MF 5148
Transcribed by Maxine Edwards,
February 2002
Friday, March 13, 1931
Lunenburg, N.S. Feb. 26 – The schr. Marguerite Tanner, Captain Angus Tanner, one of the fresh fishing fleet of the Lunenburg Cold Storage Co., arrived here this morning, reporting the loss of two crew members, Alton Hiltz, 28 years old, single, of Martin’s Point and Archibald Parsons, Rose Blanche, Nfld., about the same age, and as far as is known, unmarried. The Marguerite Tanner was fishing yesterday on the Emerald Banks, in moderate weather. The men went out in their dories to attend their trawls and on returning to the vessel the dory containing these two men failed to return. On searching they found the boat bottom up, but no trace of the occupants, and their fate is shrouded in mystery, as Capt. Tanner cannot understand how the accident happened as the dory was not loaded and the weather was moderate.