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Sable Island article in National Geographic 1965
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2024 Dec 18, 13:09 -0800
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2024 Dec 18, 13:09 -0800
The September 1965 issue of National Geographic has a sea story about a visit to Sable Island, written by editor Melville Grosvenor himself. Fog made the approach to the island tricky. A momentary clearing gave opportunity for a sun shot, but subsequent events showed the horizon must have been false. Fortunately, they moved cautiously and got close enough to pick up the radio beacon. According to the article, since the installation of that beacon in the late 40s there were no major shipwrecks. By 1965 the rescue crews were long gone. I wish the article had been scanned at higher resolution. The wreck labels on the chart are illegible. I couldn't find a scan of the 1947 sailing directions mentioned in the article, but archive.org has one from 1885. Grosvenor continued to sail the vessel in the story (a yawl named "White Mist") after his retirement. Other than that, I found nothing online about what became of her. Safe Landing on Sable https://archive.org/details/sept-1965-vol-128-no-03/page/n106/mode/1up?view=theater 1885 British Sailing Directions Sable Island https://archive.org/details/sailingdirectio05deptgoog/page/n32/mode/1up?view=theater -- Paul Hirose sofajpl.com
