Adam Bolonsky Forwards-
Mike the lobsterman waxes philosophical and provides background info on the wreck of the Jennie M. off Salisbury Beach. Mike was visiting a friend at the beach during a winter gale as the waves and surge uncovered the wreck.
The Jennie M. foundered in a nor’easter off Ipswich and Salisbury as she was running granite paving stones down the east coast. Like the wreck at Long Beach in Rockport, winter storms uncover and expose the buried schooner’s ribs every couple of years.
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Above: The Jennie M. breaks up off Salibury Beach. The image combines a photograph with hand-drawn details (the gulls and the surfmen) – a common newspaper illustration technique.
Sole survivor was the ship’s cat. Local rumor has it that the schooner was carrying more untaxed liquor than paving stones.
Good Morning Gloucester 
That’s quite a picture. Any idea of date of wreck? I’ll probably do a painting of that.
Bill
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I have found more information on the Jennie M. Carter. She was seen adrift along Salisbury beach on 4/13/1894 by a Mr. Fowler of Hampton, Ma. An hour later, lifesavers at Plum Island Point sighted the Carter just as she was going aground. The crew rushed to launch their lifeboat and proceeded up toward Black Rock Creek to the scene of the wreck.
Meanwhile Fowler and a friend had been following the hulk and watched her ground out on the beach. The waited a while but, when nobody else came the climed up her chains to the deck and confirmed there was nobody aboard her.
About an hour later, the crew of the lifeboat arrived and boarded her. Surfman Phillip H. Creasly discovered a clock in the cabin. Whe he tosses it to the beach it registers 10:25 AM. Also taken ashore is the compass, ships’ papers and a quadrant. By that time, with her back broken, her heavy cargo of paving blocks is lost and there is no hope of salvage of the boat.
Throughout the morning there are reports that every morning of the Carter’s crew has reached shore safely and were taken to a Hampton Beach hotel. But, it’s soon discovered that nobody in hampton has seen any of the crew.
Friday, Apr. 13, 1894. Seas are washing over the deck houses. The mizzen has fallen and the other two fall during the eveninng. A large crowd gathers on the beach to watch her break up.
Apr. 23, 1894. The cargo of paving stones is salvaged and sold at auction
Today, blackened fragments of her keel still show occasionally during very low Spring and Fall tides. The Carter was built in Newton, MD in 1874. She had gross tonnage of 296.22, length of 13o’ and depth of 10′.
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Very interesting. Sad, but interesting.
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