The men on shore kept the bonfires going strong in the middle of the rough winter weather, the night of the 28th of December, keeping an anxious vigil on the stranded tramp steamer in the distance. Their repeated attempts of rescue had failed so far, beaten back by blinding snow and rough waves, but they wanted the thirty men on the Drumelzier to know that they were not alone, so they kept the fires roaring.
Ship Name: Drumelzier
Year Built: 1895
Nationality: British
Tonnage: 3625
Ship Type: Steam Freighter
Year Wrecked: 1904
Location Wrecked: Fire Island, New York
Reason For Wreck: Snow Storm, Possible Problem With Compass, Some Alleged Navigational Incompetence.
Lives Lost: None
Sources:
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/12/30/101174351.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
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https://www.limaritime.org/uploads/6/7/3/9/67398695/dec_26_1904_-_drumelzier_2022.jpg
https://njscuba.net/dive-sites/new-york-dive-sites/long-island-coast-chart/drumelzier/
Lost Voyages: two centuries of shipwrecks in the approaches to New York by Bradley Sheard, Published 1998
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/136664887?searchTerm=drumelzier%20ship
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