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State Gazette
Green Bay, Wis.
Saturday, 3 June 1882

         CAPT. A. HANSON, of the scow Sailor Boy, was knocked
       overboard by the main boom, when the vessel was coming
       in to Ahnapee at about 4 o'clock Wednesday afternoon,
       when off Grimms Pier, seven miles south of Ahnapee. One
       of the men immediately took to the boat in hope of res-
       cuing the captain, but he failed. CAPT. HANSON was seen
       but once, after being knocked overboard. He was a resi-
       dent of Milwaukee, and leaves a wife and one child.
       
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       The scow-schooner Sailor Boy, arrived at Milwaukee from
     Frankfort Saturday afternoon with a cargo of slabs, and
     with one sailor aboard. A dispatch from Ahnapee in the
     Gazette of Saturday announced the drowning of CAPT. HANSON
     of the Sailor Boy about seven miles from that port, Thurs-
     day afternoon. CHAS. KELDSEN, the only man aboard the ves-
     sel on her arrival here, gives the following account of
     what was a most remarkable experience: "We left Frankfort
     Wednesday night," said he, "about 10 o'clock. The wind at
     the time was blowing quite fresh from the south. We took
     our course for the west shore, arriving off Ahnapee Thurs-
     day noon; the wind at that time was blowing hard from the
     south and a heavy sea running." About 2:30 o'clock in the
     afternoon we were wearing the blow and CAPT. HANSON was
     standing with one foot on the taff rail, the other on the
     chain-box, when suddenly CAPT. HANSON called out to me to
     look out for the main boom. I immediately told him to look
     out for the boom himself, and when, a minute later, I step-
     ped down on the deck I heard a splash in the water. I im-
     mediately looked over her stern and saw CAPT. HANSON in
     the water, several feet from the vessel, swimming, but he
     was being tossed about by the sea, which was running very
     high. Almost instantly JOHN JORGENSON, the other sailor
     aboard our vessel, was lowering the boat, he having seen
     CAPT. HANSON in the water from where he was standing, and
     a moment later he was pulling toward the captain. I saw
     nothing of JORGENSON and the yawl after he left the ves-
     sel and nothing further of CAPT. HANSON, as the vessel
     was making rapid headway. I went into the rigging and
     looked for them through the glass, but I never saw the
     captain or JORGENSON and the yawl afterward. Night came
     on, and I concluded to run for the Sturgeon Bay canal,
     but was unable to make it when I arrived off there, as
     the wind was blowing hard from the westward. I then put
     her about, and commenced boating down the shore, and had
     got about abreast of Kewaunee when the northern sprang
     up, and the vessel, having most of her canvass set, made
     a good run to this port."
       In regard to his experience he stated that it only
     equaled the one he had on the scow L. May Guthrie last
     fall, from the effect of which he thought he would not
     recover. He had not a wink of sleep since last Monday
     night, and had very little to eat since last Thursday.
     From the time the norther came up Friday night, until
     the vessel's arrival Sunday, he ate nothing.
       JORGENSON, the seaman who left the vessel in the yawl-
     boat was unable to find CAPT. HANSON, but succeeded in
     getting ashore at Ahnapee.
       CAPT. HANSON was a brother to CAPT. OLE HANSON of
     the schooner Napoleon, and was well known in marine
     circles at this port, and always bore a high repu-
     tation. He leaves a wife and one child. He was half
     owner of the Sailor Boy.
       
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