January 24, 1968 (12 pages)

ey e* oP +4 Paane? 2 . ' * owt ve ee LP iak ated hag TO The Nevada County Nugget Wednesday, Jan. 24, 1968 uzien fora LOVELIER YOU’ Balanced Beauty Service — plus — Hypo-Allergenic Cosmetics January, named for the Roman god, Janus, was guardian of entrances, and had two faces, one . looking back. We have two faces, too; we can't change the one that’s looking back aft 1967—but we can help the. New Face, looking forward in 1968. Division of Bristol Myers Co. DORIS DOCKTER 273-0122 _ . Dstrict Manager BUSINESS BILLBOARD . JEWELRY warones > Q= c1ocs JEWELRY . ees em CALIFORNIA INN © EM. DALPEZ, . ,, . . COU BEER & POOL TABLE 310 Broad. St. Nevada City: 3 . PH. 273-0327 114 W. MAIN ST. 6.V. ‘ROWLING BAKERIES: tea at SPECIALTY CAKES & DONUTS RS’s THE GIPSON'S 273-2861 BOWLING @&@ BILLIARDS Ast The. Jolly Roger Lanes Grass Valley, Calif. LITTLE OLD BAKE SHOP 429 6. RIDGE RD. 7 GRASSVALLEY, CALIF. REAL ESTATE feere’s @ bome-in your (afore with B60 . 2 Moe StS Gv. 13-803 WASHINGTON HOTEL ROOMS—COCETAILS Breakfast—Lunch=Dinner Weshington, Coli. 'w Tey A Gowewes's Delight i” Len Gilbert Pome One F FARMERS INSURANCE GROUP Mexican Kitchen fl 111 W. MAIN 0.0, BOX 1034 Closed Wed. FOOD 10 6O » = GRASS VALLEY, CALIF. 95945 Northridge Inn . PH. 273-6166 miway 20 wevanA city 265-2208 J INSURANCE SERVICE STATIONS Smokey's GULF STATION , At the Plazes, N.C. . {BOB LONG INSURANCE e< 707 wivaDe tHe WGWway pus: GHASS CaALEy, LAMFOR NIA PHONE 279-2038 Rcpresenting The Creveiow fas. Conpantes “JANITORIAL SERVICE WATER ot Oo WATER PROBLEMS A. SMALL Call 273-4493 ; SAURTORIME SHENICE -Pumps—Fitters 2 scott ee sevice Pipe~Fittings . ravi—g] 300)8 620. A. KING & SON Li IT'S CALLED "THE GRAVEYARD OF THE ATLANTIC," but to geographers Sable Island is only a moving spit of sand some 100 miles southeast of Nova Scotia, The famed Disaster Books of the Atlantic Companies list 10,000 lives and hundreds yaa Of Ships lost on the island's treacherous shoals.: Remains of ie these ships, the possibility of oil, sunken treasure and even rumors of ghosts are all part of Sable Island's unique history. The Graveyard of the Atlantic Geographers know it as Sable Island —a moving spit of sand some hundred miles southeast of Nova Scotia, : Mariners know the sandbar by its more descriptive title — “The Graveyard of the Atlantic.” Since its discovery some 450 years ago, this rocky, treacherous island, 26 miles long and one mile wide, has trapped and destroyed at least 500 ships and has claimed 10,000 lives. The island is surrounded by wrecks, ‘On the island, too, ‘‘pirates, beachcombers, murderers and convicts have taken their stand . against the elements.’ Today, according to the famed Disaster Books in the Marine . Library of the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company, for the ed. venturous, $2,000,000 {n gold ts still believed to be hidden in the sand and surf, It is also thought tha? turied treasure in the form of off ies deep underneath this isle of lost ships. Sable Island les at a point in the North Atlantic where icy currents from the Arctic meet and deflect the warm Gulf Stream, creating confusing flows apd eddies, Visitors have goted that of an overcast day, the island, which moves eastward about ones eighth of a mile a year, {s hardly distinguishable from the surrounding ocean, On these days, the inner, middle and out. er shoals create a deadly ambush. The island’s ‘‘exact limits are not definéd upon any charts,” ootes Atlantic Mutual’s Disaster Books, ‘‘for it is mare elasive . and shifting than was the ote. Sissippi in the days whan Mack: Twain was @ river pilot, ‘Where one day there ig Gpen the sea, miles away from the chore of the island, the next will find sandy shoals. upon which any ‘boat drawing more than a few feet of water will come to grief. “It is forever shifting and changing, throwing its long tens facies af sand out, now east, ow west, or earth or south, ‘until? tt has been regarded as more mysterious in its where. abouts than the Flying Dutchman, 24 The modern history of Sable Island, discovered by John Cabot in 1497, opens with a shipwreck. In the early 1500’s, Sir Humphrey Gilbert set sail from England to establish a colony in Newfoundland. One of his vessels, ‘‘The Admiral,’’ found itself entrapped on Sable’s shoals, The doomed ship continued sounding trumpets and guns until ‘‘strange voices from the deep scared the helmsman from his post on board the frigate.” , One hundred men were lost in the floundering of ‘‘The Admiral,”” The next disaster combined tragedy with treachery. In 1658 the “Marquis delta Roche," sailing to America with 200 convicts under orders of King Henry IV, lett the met on Sadie Istand SF sa fekseping.** When an expedition returned seven years later, it found only twelve survivors, subsisting on birds’ eggs and wild berries, The nineteenth century was 2. particularly eventful period for Sable Island. This was: the age of clippers and whalers < ships that roamed the farthest reaches of the ocean ,. and often met with disaster ae nineteenth “century start. ed off inauspiciousty with the loss of the British transport ‘*Amelia’® of Sable in 1803. All but one of the o: $, recruits and crew numbe: 200 of the ship were lost. . f& schooner set out to search for survivors also foundered on the island, Again there was but @ single survivor, With this wreck, the Goverament lished 2 rescue station + ilieaee as mab uaa pot e rate drapped the storm-biown ships. A map titled “Sable {sland — Graveyard of the Atlantic’’ lists the known wrecks since 1800 AD, Out of the hundreds are 6uch lost shins es “Lady Echo 1846" “E est Boston 1954,” “Portume 1611," “Malte 1668 ves “Eliza 1840," ‘Hope 1825"" and “The Glasgow 1840,” shifting, hidden _ So. many sunken vessels line the shoals of Sable Island that wrecks can be found upon wrecks, The most tragic of all Sable island disasters occurred in 1898. In that year the French liner ‘‘La Bourgogne’’ collided with the ‘‘Cromartyshire.’’ The annals of the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company showed that the tragedy took 500 lives. Probably the most unusual ‘shipwreck’? on Sable Island was that of the ‘‘Myrtle” in 1840, Wrecked and abandoned on the shifting sands in January of that year she freed herself in another storm ‘two months later and drifted across to Fayal fn the Azores arriving the following July, The vessel was fe= paired and put back into service. Only slightly less unusual was. the fate of the “Crofton Hall.” This iron a ~ brake in The. two parts eres ated apart n @rifted together again to — m a whole, Islanders sur. mise that the ‘Crofton Hall’’ struck an older submerged wreck and 6ettled over it which accounted for the two sections give cerned the bark ‘‘John McLeod.” This bark, wrecked off Dévil’s Jand at the entrance to Halifax Harbor in Nova Scotia, ‘‘drifted ashore on Sable Island bottom up, the wreck of a former wreck.” Radar and other refinements in the mariners’ art have slow. ed down the number of: ship. wrecks on Sable Island. The last known wreck. was that of the “‘Gale’’ — a New England travel. et lost tn 1945, Along with shipwrecks, the. island is wei} populated by ate ° Paritions ang tardy, wildponies, According to researchers af Atlantic Mutgal, legend has ¢. that one of the apparitions walke ing at night is a French noble. man’s ghost. The king, infatuat. ed with the nobleman’s wife, banished the husband to Sable Island, ‘Tis gnost of 8 french cavalier shows himself only to French castaways, to whom he complains bitterly of the king “ in 17th century English,

ey e* oP +4 Paane? 2 . ' * owt ve ee LP iak ated hag TO The Nevada County Nugget Wednesday, Jan. 24, 1968 uzien fora LOVELIER YOU’ Balanced Beauty Service — plus — Hypo-Allergenic Cosmetics January, named for the Roman god, Janus, was guardian of entrances, and had two faces, one . looking back. We have two faces, too; we can't change the one that’s looking back aft 1967—but we can help the. New Face, looking forward in 1968. Division of Bristol Myers Co. DORIS DOCKTER 273-0122 _ . Dstrict Manager BUSINESS BILLBOARD . JEWELRY warones > Q= c1ocs JEWELRY . ees em CALIFORNIA INN © EM. DALPEZ, . ,, . . COU BEER & POOL TABLE 310 Broad. St. Nevada City: 3 . PH. 273-0327 114 W. MAIN ST. 6.V. ‘ROWLING BAKERIES: tea at SPECIALTY CAKES & DONUTS RS’s THE GIPSON'S 273-2861 BOWLING @&@ BILLIARDS Ast The. Jolly Roger Lanes Grass Valley, Calif. LITTLE OLD BAKE SHOP 429 6. RIDGE RD. 7 GRASSVALLEY, CALIF. REAL ESTATE feere’s @ bome-in your (afore with B60 . 2 Moe StS Gv. 13-803 WASHINGTON HOTEL ROOMS—COCETAILS Breakfast—Lunch=Dinner Weshington, Coli. 'w Tey A Gowewes's Delight i” Len Gilbert Pome One F FARMERS INSURANCE GROUP Mexican Kitchen fl 111 W. MAIN 0.0, BOX 1034 Closed Wed. FOOD 10 6O » = GRASS VALLEY, CALIF. 95945 Northridge Inn . PH. 273-6166 miway 20 wevanA city 265-2208 J INSURANCE SERVICE STATIONS Smokey's GULF STATION , At the Plazes, N.C. . {BOB LONG INSURANCE e< 707 wivaDe tHe WGWway pus: GHASS CaALEy, LAMFOR NIA PHONE 279-2038 Rcpresenting The Creveiow fas. Conpantes “JANITORIAL SERVICE WATER ot Oo WATER PROBLEMS A. SMALL Call 273-4493 ; SAURTORIME SHENICE -Pumps—Fitters 2 scott ee sevice Pipe~Fittings . ravi—g] 300)8 620. A. KING & SON Li IT'S CALLED "THE GRAVEYARD OF THE ATLANTIC," but to geographers Sable Island is only a moving spit of sand some 100 miles southeast of Nova Scotia, The famed Disaster Books of the Atlantic Companies list 10,000 lives and hundreds yaa Of Ships lost on the island's treacherous shoals.: Remains of ie these ships, the possibility of oil, sunken treasure and even rumors of ghosts are all part of Sable Island's unique history. The Graveyard of the Atlantic Geographers know it as Sable Island —a moving spit of sand some hundred miles southeast of Nova Scotia, : Mariners know the sandbar by its more descriptive title — “The Graveyard of the Atlantic.” Since its discovery some 450 years ago, this rocky, treacherous island, 26 miles long and one mile wide, has trapped and destroyed at least 500 ships and has claimed 10,000 lives. The island is surrounded by wrecks, ‘On the island, too, ‘‘pirates, beachcombers, murderers and convicts have taken their stand . against the elements.’ Today, according to the famed Disaster Books in the Marine . Library of the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company, for the ed. venturous, $2,000,000 {n gold ts still believed to be hidden in the sand and surf, It is also thought tha? turied treasure in the form of off ies deep underneath this isle of lost ships. Sable Island les at a point in the North Atlantic where icy currents from the Arctic meet and deflect the warm Gulf Stream, creating confusing flows apd eddies, Visitors have goted that of an overcast day, the island, which moves eastward about ones eighth of a mile a year, {s hardly distinguishable from the surrounding ocean, On these days, the inner, middle and out. er shoals create a deadly ambush. The island’s ‘‘exact limits are not definéd upon any charts,” ootes Atlantic Mutual’s Disaster Books, ‘‘for it is mare elasive . and shifting than was the ote.

Sissippi in the days whan Mack: Twain was @ river pilot, ‘Where one day there ig Gpen the sea, miles away from the chore of the island, the next will find sandy shoals. upon which any ‘boat drawing more than a few feet of water will come to grief. “It is forever shifting and changing, throwing its long tens facies af sand out, now east, ow west, or earth or south, ‘until? tt has been regarded as more mysterious in its where. abouts than the Flying Dutchman, 24 The modern history of Sable Island, discovered by John Cabot in 1497, opens with a shipwreck. In the early 1500’s, Sir Humphrey Gilbert set sail from England to establish a colony in Newfoundland. One of his vessels, ‘‘The Admiral,’’ found itself entrapped on Sable’s shoals, The doomed ship continued sounding trumpets and guns until ‘‘strange voices from the deep scared the helmsman from his post on board the frigate.” , One hundred men were lost in the floundering of ‘‘The Admiral,”” The next disaster combined tragedy with treachery. In 1658 the “Marquis delta Roche," sailing to America with 200 convicts under orders of King Henry IV, lett the met on Sadie Istand SF sa fekseping.** When an expedition returned seven years later, it found only twelve survivors, subsisting on birds’ eggs and wild berries, The nineteenth century was 2. particularly eventful period for Sable Island. This was: the age of clippers and whalers < ships that roamed the farthest reaches of the ocean ,. and often met with disaster ae nineteenth “century start. ed off inauspiciousty with the loss of the British transport ‘*Amelia’® of Sable in 1803. All but one of the o: $, recruits and crew numbe: 200 of the ship were lost. . f& schooner set out to search for survivors also foundered on the island, Again there was but @ single survivor, With this wreck, the Goverament lished 2 rescue station + ilieaee as mab uaa pot e rate drapped the storm-biown ships. A map titled “Sable {sland — Graveyard of the Atlantic’’ lists the known wrecks since 1800 AD, Out of the hundreds are 6uch lost shins es “Lady Echo 1846" “E est Boston 1954,” “Portume 1611," “Malte 1668 ves “Eliza 1840," ‘Hope 1825"" and “The Glasgow 1840,” shifting, hidden _ So. many sunken vessels line the shoals of Sable Island that wrecks can be found upon wrecks, The most tragic of all Sable island disasters occurred in 1898. In that year the French liner ‘‘La Bourgogne’’ collided with the ‘‘Cromartyshire.’’ The annals of the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company showed that the tragedy took 500 lives. Probably the most unusual ‘shipwreck’? on Sable Island was that of the ‘‘Myrtle” in 1840, Wrecked and abandoned on the shifting sands in January of that year she freed herself in another storm ‘two months later and drifted across to Fayal fn the Azores arriving the following July, The vessel was fe= paired and put back into service. Only slightly less unusual was. the fate of the “Crofton Hall.” This iron a ~ brake in The. two parts eres ated apart n @rifted together again to — m a whole, Islanders sur. mise that the ‘Crofton Hall’’ struck an older submerged wreck and 6ettled over it which accounted for the two sections give cerned the bark ‘‘John McLeod.” This bark, wrecked off Dévil’s Jand at the entrance to Halifax Harbor in Nova Scotia, ‘‘drifted ashore on Sable Island bottom up, the wreck of a former wreck.” Radar and other refinements in the mariners’ art have slow. ed down the number of: ship. wrecks on Sable Island. The last known wreck. was that of the “‘Gale’’ — a New England travel. et lost tn 1945, Along with shipwrecks, the. island is wei} populated by ate ° Paritions ang tardy, wildponies, According to researchers af Atlantic Mutgal, legend has ¢. that one of the apparitions walke ing at night is a French noble. man’s ghost. The king, infatuat. ed with the nobleman’s wife, banished the husband to Sable Island, ‘Tis gnost of 8 french cavalier shows himself only to French castaways, to whom he complains bitterly of the king “ in 17th century English,