People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1893 — VICTIM OF FOOLHARDINESS. [ARTICLE]

VICTIM OF FOOLHARDINESS.

Capt. Sheldrake, Who Tried to Cross the Atlantic in a Dory. Has Perished. Philadelphia, Oct 30.—The steamship Y ork, which arrived here Thursday, reports that 900 miles west from Gibraltar the wreck of the 15-foot dory Flying Dutchman was sighted. In this frail craft Capt Sheldrake set sail on June 19 from Nova Scotia for Falmouth, England, and on July 20he was sighted by another boat and reported near the spot where the York’s crew found the wreckage The captain certainly perished. Ills boat was the smallest craft which ever attempted a transatlantic trip.