A schooner from PEI, mastered by William Dugan, went ashore one mile 1 to the East of St. Peters Harbor. It was advertised for sale in the Island’s i newspapers the following week. (44)

, The Washington:

, The American Schooner, mastered by ‘Mitchell,’ of Freeport, Maine, was cast away near Cable Head. It was advertised to be sold that same month. (45)

_ The Triumph: : An American schooner of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, mastered by Frederick 2 Hannifold, was driven ashore near the entrance of St. Peters Harbor. (46)

During the fall of 1861, another gale hit the north coast of the Island. George Henry Dingwell, a resident of Midgell, found for himself a

very nice Windjammer," high and dry with no damage on the beach at

Greenwich. Buying the salvage rights for the ship, Dingwell got the ship out of the sand and onto large timbers before the winter set in. He arranged equipment that enabled horses to drag it from Greenwich across the ice onto the Bay. In the dead of winter, George and his farmer :: friends, with 72 teams of horses, were able to drag it to where he wanted it. After the spring thaw, the ship road at anchor on the Bay; it was later sold. (47)

In late August of 1873 another gale hit the north shore. Many wrecks and casualties were listed, but none are listed for the north shore 7. of the St. Peters fire district. The next shipwrecks for the area occurred in 1899 when Our Hope and a few years later in 1902 when the Richard B were both wrecked in close proximity to each other at St. Peters Bay.

THE TURRET BELL

When the foam crested billows. Roused to madness by the stom1, carried death and destruction along the northern shore of Prince Edward Island. (48)

Fifty-five years after the Yankee Gale struck the north side of the Island, another gale struck with an equal amount of force in November of 1906. In the days following this storm, newspaper headlines, such as the one above, relayed reports of the devastation and the loss of life that Occurred. The Olga, Orpheus, Sovinto, and the Turret Bell are the most dOCumented shipwrecks of this particular Gale that occurred along the north shore. The Turret Bell that ran ashore at Cable Head became

* A Windjammer is a sailing ship.