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News article illustrating the search area for Roland Sprague and Fred Fernald
ELLSWORTH
185
BARQ
HARBOR
City
SW
HARBORO
SLESFORD
BAKER IS.
SWANS
LONG
FRENCHBORO
N
MATINICUS
SEARCH AREA-Map shows the coastal Hancock County area where two Isles-
lobstermen have been reported missing since Thursday's lashing snowstorm.
Cross ford marks approximate position southeast of Baker Island where their craft Friday, was
last seen. Coast guard boats and a plane made a wide sweep of the area
finding no trace of the boat or men, Fred Fernald and Roland Sprague.
chairman, Mrs. Audrey Kenney,
Mrs. Olive Young, Mrs. Florence
Lobstermen Still Missing
Ganong, Mrs. Margaret Wilcox
Mrs. Helena Swett, and Mrs. Helen
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Duck, Little Duck and Great Gots
Island beaches, the Coast Guard
Spinney. Members are reminded
were sent Friday to the area
reported.
to bring gifts for the exchange
where the missing craft was last
To Resume Saturday
table at the District meeting to be
reported, officials said. The boats
Southwest Harbor Coast Guard
held in Hampden.
were making a close search of the
water surface for possible wreck-
Station per Commander Friday night George search that Hup- had the
said
plane and lifeboat
The Methodist Men will meet
age.
been suspended because of dark-
Monday evening at the First
Coast Guard officials said a 40-
ness and high seas but would be
Methodist Church. Supper will be
foot utility boat, sent out from
resumed Saturday, weather per-
served at 6:30 o'clock. The speak-
Southwest Harbor earlier Friday,
mitting.
was ordered to return because of
He said that a communications
er will be Miss Lillian Howland
check had been ordered in the
of Bangor, a Baptist missionary
high seas.
Quoddy and Rockland Group areas
to Guatemala. She will speak on
During the day, the Coast
on the chance that the missing
Guard reported the water rough
Guatemala and show slides. The
craft, had found safety in some
with gusty winds up to 35 miles
small harbor.
supper committee is Chandler
an hour.
Meanwhile at Islesford, friends
Carter, Lenly Annis, and Arnold
Had 18-Hour Fuel Supply
and relatives of the missing pair
Travis. Reginald Merrill is pro-
The Coast Guard Station said
waited and hoped. Fernald, who
the missing lobster boat had a
is unmarried, lives with his father,
gram chairman.
watertight cockpit, a closed shel-
Arthur L. Fernald.
ter housing and a stove in a for-
The Tri-More Unit of the WSCS
Has Wife, Two Children
ward The
of the North Brewer-Eddington
fuel cabin. supply 28-foot about craft hours, had
Sprague has a wife, Betty, and
a of 18
Methodist Church will meet Tues-
two small children, Joy 3; and
and the search plane operated on
day evening at 7:30 o'clock with
Juanita, 14 months.
the theory that the craft, if still
Mrs. Hughene Hodgkins, 1258
Sprague and Fernald had been
afloat, was drifting, officials said.
lobstering together since last fall,
North Main Street.
Several land searches were con-
according to Fernald's sister-in-
ducted Friday. Townspeople and
law, Mrs. Elizabeth Fernald of
fishermen of Frenchboro searched
Lawmakers
Islesford
the shores of Long Island, which
She said Sprague owned the
lies to the south of the area.
boat men were
Residents of Swan's Island con-
that is men
the it customary operating for and of
File Less
ducted a search on the eastern
the island to go out in pairs to
side of that island.
tend their lobster traps.
not T 258
Searches also were made of
Baker, Cranberry, Black, Great