These fatalities include accidents to fishermen and seamen outside Canadian waters. For 1924 there are included 8 members of the crew of a schooner drowned between Louisburg, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, early in January; 3 fishermen drowned during a storm at the Portlock Banks, Alaska, on March 3; a fisherman drowned at The Banks, Newfoundland, on November 11, and the captain of a fishing schooner drowned in a wreck near Gloucester, Massachusetts, on August 28. For 1925 there are included a seaman on a Canadian steamer at Antwerp, Belgium, accidentally killed by machinery on March 5; 2 fishermen drowned at sea, in the Atlantic Ocean, when their dory was swamped, on March 18; and the captain of a schooner who was struck by a boom and killed near Merscheau Island, Newfoundland, on July 29. Unclassified. |