From the book A History of the Town of Freetown, (1902):
[The Barque Elizabeth] was one of two whale ships fitted out at Freetown, the venture in both cases proving disastrous, and very disheartening to their owners. The Elizabeth was twice fitted out at Hathaway's wharf in the Narrows. She first sailed in 1841. On this voyage an entire boat's crew of six, including the captain, were lost. When last seen from the ship they were fast to a whale. A fog came up and shut them out of view; in the morning their boat was found bottom up. The names of the unfortunate sailors were Bradford W. Winslow, captain, son of John Winslow; Benjamin Hall, son of William Hall; George S. Evans, son of Thomas Evans; and William H. Thresher, son of Henry Thresher, all of Assonet, and David Hathaway, boatsteerer, son of Russell Hathaway and Daniel Reed, son of George Reed, both of Steep Brook. The date of this sad event was June 17, 1843.
She sailed on her second and last voyage July 4, 1844. Elisha Gifford, Master. She was burned at the Fiji Islands in 1846. Two of the young men of the village that were numbered with her crew, Charles, son of Hampton Pierce, and Thomas W. Pierce Jr., never returned home. The latter died of sunstroke near Sacramento, Cal.
[The Barque Elizabeth] was one of two whale ships fitted out at Freetown, the venture in both cases proving disastrous, and very disheartening to their owners. The Elizabeth was twice fitted out at Hathaway's wharf in the Narrows. She first sailed in 1841. On this voyage an entire boat's crew of six, including the captain, were lost. When last seen from the ship they were fast to a whale. A fog came up and shut them out of view; in the morning their boat was found bottom up. The names of the unfortunate sailors were Bradford W. Winslow, captain, son of John Winslow; Benjamin Hall, son of William Hall; George S. Evans, son of Thomas Evans; and William H. Thresher, son of Henry Thresher, all of Assonet, and David Hathaway, boatsteerer, son of Russell Hathaway and Daniel Reed, son of George Reed, both of Steep Brook. The date of this sad event was June 17, 1843.
She sailed on her second and last voyage July 4, 1844. Elisha Gifford, Master. She was burned at the Fiji Islands in 1846. Two of the young men of the village that were numbered with her crew, Charles, son of Hampton Pierce, and Thomas W. Pierce Jr., never returned home. The latter died of sunstroke near Sacramento, Cal.
From the book A History of the Town of Freetown, (1902):
[The Barque Elizabeth] was one of two whale ships fitted out at Freetown, the venture in both cases proving disastrous, and very disheartening to their owners. The Elizabeth was twice fitted out at Hathaway's wharf in the Narrows. She first sailed in 1841. On this voyage an entire boat's crew of six, including the captain, were lost. When last seen from the ship they were fast to a whale. A fog came up and shut them out of view; in the morning their boat was found bottom up. The names of the unfortunate sailors were Bradford W. Winslow, captain, son of John Winslow; Benjamin Hall, son of William Hall; George S. Evans, son of Thomas Evans; and William H. Thresher, son of Henry Thresher, all of Assonet, and David Hathaway, boatsteerer, son of Russell Hathaway and Daniel Reed, son of George Reed, both of Steep Brook. The date of this sad event was June 17, 1843.
She sailed on her second and last voyage July 4, 1844. Elisha Gifford, Master. She was burned at the Fiji Islands in 1846. Two of the young men of the village that were numbered with her crew, Charles, son of Hampton Pierce, and Thomas W. Pierce Jr., never returned home. The latter died of sunstroke near Sacramento, Cal.
[The Barque Elizabeth] was one of two whale ships fitted out at Freetown, the venture in both cases proving disastrous, and very disheartening to their owners. The Elizabeth was twice fitted out at Hathaway's wharf in the Narrows. She first sailed in 1841. On this voyage an entire boat's crew of six, including the captain, were lost. When last seen from the ship they were fast to a whale. A fog came up and shut them out of view; in the morning their boat was found bottom up. The names of the unfortunate sailors were Bradford W. Winslow, captain, son of John Winslow; Benjamin Hall, son of William Hall; George S. Evans, son of Thomas Evans; and William H. Thresher, son of Henry Thresher, all of Assonet, and David Hathaway, boatsteerer, son of Russell Hathaway and Daniel Reed, son of George Reed, both of Steep Brook. The date of this sad event was June 17, 1843.
She sailed on her second and last voyage July 4, 1844. Elisha Gifford, Master. She was burned at the Fiji Islands in 1846. Two of the young men of the village that were numbered with her crew, Charles, son of Hampton Pierce, and Thomas W. Pierce Jr., never returned home. The latter died of sunstroke near Sacramento, Cal.
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