- Date
- 1948-02
- Kind
- Rescue
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- emergency-managementmaritimeweatherfishing
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The February 2010 Beacon reprinted a 1948 Detroit Times account of Coast Guard rescuers finding Beaver Island fisherman Francis Gablo after about twenty hours on a drifting ice floe while ice fishing.
Evidence limits
This is a later reprint of a partially preserved newspaper clipping, not an independent Coast Guard case file or complete account of the rescue.
Sources
See the sources block above.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, February 2010, "The Adventures of Gablo."Reprints a partially preserved February 16, 1948 Detroit Times report that Coast Guard personnel rescued Beaver Island fisherman Francis Gablo after he spent about 20 hours on a drifting ice floe while ice fishing. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2010-02_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the retrospective reprint.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2010-02_Beaver-Beacon
Added 5 February 2026 · revised 5 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Coast Guard rescues Francis Gablo from an ice floe near Beaver Island, 1948”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-francis-gablo-ice-floe-rescue-1948/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, February 2010, "The Adventures of Gablo." (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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