Wreck of the Schooner HENRY B. TILTON

Wreck of the Schooner HENRY B. TILTON

Wreck of the schooner HENRY B. TILTON: 

As the Schooner Henry B. Tilton passed through Nantasket Roads, the storm of November, 1897 drove the three-masted schooner ashore on the Stony Beach segment of the Town of Hull’s (Massachusetts) peninsula.

The crew of the Schooner HENRY B. TILTON, which was driven ashore near the scene of the other wrecks, were more fortunate; the vessel held together and all seven on board were rescued by means of the breeches buoy, an achievement described by Lieutenant Worth G. Ross, the District Inspector, as " a clean and efficient piece of work notwithstanding tremendous difficulties."

In fact, during a considerable portion of the operation the life savers were exposed to as much danger as were the shipwrecked men. The work took several hours and was successfully completed and the apparatus taken back to the station, when the weary rescuers were informed that a coal barge known as "No. 1 " had stranded and was going to pieces on the rocks lying off Windmill Point. They rushed to that wreck and were just in time to save the five men on board with the assistance of volunteers of the Humane Society, as in the case of the TILTON.