THE FLAGLER TRIBUNE
Bunnell, Florida
Thursday, September 26, 1929

 

Bound from Jacksonville to French Martinique with 450,000 feet of lumber from the Putnam Lumber Company of Jacksonville, the four-masted schooner Tamarco, commanded by Arnold Connolly, a Negro, was beached near the coast guard station at Flagler Beach, last Friday night during a northeast gale.

One Negro seaman, E. R. Brown, was drowned when the crew took to the small boats to come ashore. Coast Guardsman C. D. Toler, in charge of the station, saw the vessel's plight before it was beached, and placed signal lights on the shore, he then went back to the station to call for assistance and while away the crew abandoned the ship.

The vessel was beached by Connolly after she became waterlogged and unable to make her way. It was reported that her cargo holds were full of water when she grounded.

The Tamarco sailed from Jacksonville several days previously and had been battling a strong northeast gale during that time. After the ship was beached the crew was taken to St. Augustine by custom patrol officers but have been returned to the coast guard station at Flagler Beach, it was reported today.

Only one white man, Randolph Hyers, supercargo, brother of the president of the Tampa company owning the vessel, was aboard, it was reported.

Since being beached the ship has settled considerably in the soft sand and according to Coast Guardsman Toler, will remain intact unless another gale comes up and the high seas break her to pieces.

According to reports from Flagler Beach today, D. E. Fleiehel, president of the Putnam Lumber Company, unloading of the vessel will begin the latter part of this week, 435,000 feet still being in the hold. The remaining few thousand feet, which was carried as a deck load, was carried ashore by the waves and most of the timber has been salvaged by individuals along the beach.