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CAPT. DUNN’S REPORT
[Welland Tribune, 21 August, 1903]
The firing on the Erie tug Silver Spray for poaching in Canadian waters on Lake Erie turns out to have been a great exaggerated incident. Captain Dunn’s log has been received by the Minister of Marine and in it the matter is treated as an ordinary occurrence of no great importance. The Petrel sighted the Silver Spray and gave chase. The Silver Spray turned and made straight for the Government cutter. When the former was almost up. The latter signalled for her to stop, but the tug pushed by a full speed. Captain Dunn fired a rifle across the Silber Spray’s bow, but it failed to bring her to. Thereupon, to quote from the log itself: “I then fired at her with several rifles, but the tug kept on, and as she was as fast as the Petrel, there was nothing to do but lay to until she was out of sight, when we put in for Port Stanley.
This exhausts the details in the log. The department have asked for more information, and Captain Dunn will make an extended report.
*CLEVELAND, March 16. 1911 — Seven lives were lost and a fishing tug was sunk in the gale which swept the lakes yesterday and last night. The tug Silver Spray of Erie, Penn., operated by the Booth Fisheries Company of Cleveland, went down off this harbor early to-day. The crew, six men and a boy, took to the tug’s lifeboat, but were dashed on the breakwater and drowned.
The New York Times
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