- Dates
- 1936-11-11 – circa 1936-12
- Kind
- Publication
- Where
- Simmons Reef
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- maritimeshippingtransportationheritagecommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island archipelago
Summary
The January 1977 Beaver Beacon continues its “Boats To Beaver Island” series with a retrospective account of the J. Oswald Boyd grounding on Simmons Reef in 1936 and the reported Beaver Island gasoline-salvage trips of the package freighter Ramblar.
Evidence and limits
This is retrospective newspaper publication evidence. It does not replace vessel logs, salvage contracts, cargo manifests, or a complete casualty and salvage chronology.
Sources
- Retrospectively reports the 244-foot tanker J. Oswald Boyd grounding on Simmons Reef on November 11, 1936, its abandonment, and a local gasoline-salvage effort in which the 65-foot package freighter Ramblar reportedly made trips carrying about 9,000 gallons per trip. The installment is a retrospective newspaper account, not a vessel log, salvage contract, cargo manifest, or complete chronology. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1977-01_Beaver-Beacon
- The held nine-page issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the retrospective salvage installment.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1977-01_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island salvors recover gasoline from the stranded J. Oswald Boyd, 1936”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-tales-oswald-boyd-gasoline-salvage-1936/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, January 1977, “Beaver Tales: Boats To Beaver Island (cont.).” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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