Gallery›Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library›Tells Of Disaster To Boats. Daniel F. Sweeney, proprietor of a Salem Willows, Mass., boatyard (left) and his wife tells a reporter how he rented out 37 boats to Sunday fishermen before the violent storm broke today and caused at least four deaths and scores or persons to be missing as the 20-minute squall with gusts of hurricane force overturned 200 small boats. Sweeney was one of the men credited with recovering three bodies and rescuing several survivors.
Tells Of Disaster To Boats. Daniel F. Sweeney, proprietor of a Salem Willows, Mass., boatyard (left) and his wife tells a reporter how he rented out 37 boats to Sunday fishermen before the violent storm broke today and caused at least four deaths and scores or persons to be missing as the 20-minute squall with gusts of hurricane force overturned 200 small boats. Sweeney was one of the men credited with recovering three bodies and rescuing several survivors.
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Tells Of Disaster To Boats. Daniel F. Sweeney, proprietor of a Salem Willows, Mass., boatyard (left) and his wife tells a reporter how he rented out 37 boats to Sunday fishermen before the violent storm broke today and caused at least four deaths and scores or persons to be missing as the 20-minute squall with gusts of hurricane force overturned 200 small boats. Sweeney was one of the men credited with recovering three bodies and rescuing several survivors.

Associated Press · [ca. July 1952]

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