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Green Bay Advocate
Thursday, 9 May 1878

         The Old Schooner St. Lawrence burned.
           - CAPT. LARKINS Drowned
           
         Deep regret will prevail in marine circles
       at the announcement of the death of CAPT. MARTIN
       LARKINS of Ahnapee. A special from that place to
       the Chicago press gives the details of the loss
       of the schooner St. Lawrence, and the drowning of
       the Captain and a passenger named ARTHUR PIEPLOW,
       on Tuesday of last week, while on her return from
       Chicago to Ahnapee. The Capt. had set his men at
       work forward caulking the deck, and having direct-
       ed the cook to place a kettle of tar on the stove,
       he subsequently called him to the wheel, and went
       himself to assist in the caulking. In 30 minutes
       the cabin was discovered to be on fire, the pitch
       having boiled over and ignited. When the fire was
       found to be beyond control the Capt. and MR. PIE-
       PLOW took to the yawl, and the former gave the
       order to lower. As the vessel was running five or
       six miles an hour the men admonished the captain
       that to avoid the swamping of the yawl the vessel
       must be brought to. Those familier with the cap-
       tain's excitable temperament will readily antici-
       pate the result of the suggestion. The order was
       imperative to lower away and on striking the water
       the boat went to pieces. The vessel was immediately
       put about, but neither the captain nor the passen-
       ger were again seen. The survivors were rescued by
       the schr. Granada. CAPT. LARKINS was born in North
       Ireland in 1822. Entering the British navy at the
       age of 15, he has followed the sea until its waters
       have finally closed over him. A wife and two chil-
       dren survive. Unyielding integrity and staunch
       friendship were characteristics that endeared the
       Captain to all. Of the old vessel that had well-
       nigh outlived her usefulness the Ahnapee Record
       says:
         The schooner was built at French Creek, on the
       St. Lawrence river in 1843. She has successfully
       weathered many a severe storm, but three weeks
       ago her strength received the severest test ever
       experienced. She has passed through many hands,
       and was last owned by the captain, he having pur-
       chased the interest of MR. FAX early in the Spring.
       She was returning from her fourth trip of the sea-
       son. Her chief value consisted of the canvass etc.
       CHAS. HANNEMAN loses $102 worth of lumber which
       she was bringing from Chicago."
         The names of the survivors, rescued by the
       Grenada, were NATHANIEL McDONNALD, JAS. TWEEDDALE,
       Jr. and W. H. WASS. On the arrival of the vessel
       off Ahnapee she hailed CAPT. DAN HENRY'S fishing
       boat, which was taking up nets, and the men were
       transferred to the latter and taken home.
       
       [Transcriber's Note: The Cleveland Herald gives
        the name of the passenger as Arthur Riplow, of
        Gilford, ILL.]
       
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