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     Vessel (Name Unknown) 
     
    
   
   
    
     A vessel with a load of grindstones was wrecked between 
     
     Betsy's Reef and Black Reef in 1870. Everyone from around 
     
     the area went down to get a grindstone. James Pierce who 
     
     lived in Munn's Road, put one in a sail bag and walked home 
     
     with it on his back. These grindstones would probably be 
     
     twenty-four inches in diameter and six inches thick. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Shipwrecked Sailor 
     
    
   
   
    
     J. Emery was a sailor who was lost at sea and his body 
     
     was washed ashore. He was buried at East Point in 1873. It is 
     
    
   
   
    
     understood that he had relatives in Nova Scotia. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Emily E. Saville 
     
    
   
   
    
     The vessel, Emily E. Saville, was wrecked near East Point 
     
     in 1873. Among those on board were Captain Saville and his two 
     
     sons, Edward and Darius. One man, a MacDonald, came ashore, but 
     
     the others were lost and the ship was afterwards found capsized. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Quebec 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Quebec was a boat loaded with iron that was lost off 
     
     East Point in 1879. From a natural wharf formed by the ice, 
     
     peOple in the area were able to pick up most of the iron. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Phoenix 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Phoenix was a British Man—of—War with 400 officers and 
     
     men on board. It came ashore on the south side of Prince Edward 
     
     Island near East Point. A doctor on board this ship brought Mrs. 
     
     Walter Fisher into the world. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel 
     
     John MacDonald, asked him what his fee would be and he replied, 
     
     "Name her Mary Ellen Phoenix MacDonald." This was in the year 
     
     1882. The survivors of this wreck spent most of the winter in 
     
     houses at East Point and also in the MacInnis factory. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Welcome 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Welcome capsized off East Point on the morning of 
     
     August 29, 1883. There was only one survivor, Israel Spindler, 
     
     from Louisburg, Nova Scotia. The vessel was lying—to under a 
     
     double reefed foresail on that morning with a gale of wind and 
     
     heavy sea off North Lake. It was seen from the shore and after— 
     
     wards was missed. She was capsized by a heavy sea and lay on 
     
     her beam ends.