16 She was part of a fleet of 4-2 schooners which broke adrift from Cow Head, . She went down with all aboard in- 7 9 eluding Captain Moody of Gloucester. ' A September 1873 issue of Island Argus reported that a body of a man was picked up on the beach of East Point . He was described as being very tall and well dressed. It was sug- RO gested that the man belonged to the ship . A small schooner struck an iceberg off East Point on April 20, 1877 and immediately sank. The crew of four made it to shore with great difficulty. They were exhausted. The sch- p-i ooner was sailing from Canso to the . On the night of Tuesday, Sept. 2, 1879, the Dominion Line Steamer Quebec grounded on the East Point Reef . Captain Hade had sailed Monday from Halifax for Montreal with sixty passengers onboard. The cargo of sugar, salt and iron had to R? be thrown overboard. The Captain ordered the cSjche of sugar broken before being thrown over so none could be salvaged.4. The following winter local people were able to pick up most of the iron due to a natural ice wharf. After everything had been thrown overboard the ship proceeded on her voyage with little damage. In 1880 the ship Onwan sank off East Point . Edward, 8 S the eldest son of James MacDonald of Kingsboro was drowned. y On the evening of Sept. 12, 1882 the warship Phoenix was stranded on the East Point Reef . The ship struck the reef when coming from the North with a heavy Northeast gale with thick rain squalls. The deceptive appearance of the light