Biography
(He was qualified as a Master Mariner.) He was one of the models for Jack London's "Sea Wolf." He began his marine career in Cape Breton Nova Scotia.
He sailed out of New York as a Mate on deep sea ships arriving in the Pacific about 1880.
He prospected from the seven ton sloop Flyaway up the coast of BC and Alaska discovering the coal mine later she was owned by the Alaska Commercial Company. With his brother Alex in 1883 he took the schooner San Diego from San Francisco to seal, seklling the skins in Victoria. The following year in the schooner Mary Ellen he broke sealing records and agin in 1885 and 1886.
He brought the schooner Triumph out from Halifax in 1886.
In 1890 he sailed the Edward E. Webster.
References
- Newell, G. 1977
- E.W. Wright (ed.) 1967
- Dalzell, Kathleen E. (1973)
