September
8, 1846 - Lost and drowned off the Coast Survey
Brig WASHINGTON in a hurricane off the North Carolina
coast:
George
M. Bache, Lieutenant Commanding,
James
Dorsey, quartermaster
Benjamin
Dolloff, quartermaster
John
Fishbourne, quartermaster
Henry
Schroeder, sailmaker's mate
Francis
Butler, seaman
Lewis
Maynard, seaman
Thomas
Stamford, seaman
William
Wright, seaman
Peter
Hanson, ordinary seaman
Edward
Grennin, ordinary seaman.
May
21, 1849 - Lost by drowning after a boat capsized
in Mobile Bay:
Silas
Holmes, Passed Assistant Surgeon
December 13, 1849 - Lost by disease on the Texas
Coast:
Robert
H. Fauntleroy, Assistant U. S. Coast Survey
October 17, 1851
- Lost by drowning while conducting surveys on the Columbia
River:
Joseph
Ruth, Sub-assistant U. S. Coast Survey
1852
- Lost by disease
J.
B. Gluck, Assistant U. S. Coast Survey
1852
- Lost by boiler explosion on Steamboat REINDEER while
transiting between assignments:
Woods
Baker, Sub-assistant United States Coast Survey
1852 - Lost by disease:
Benjamin
F. West, Sub-Assistant U. S. Coast Survey
Daniel
L. Bryan, M.D., Passed Assistant Surgeon U.S. Navy,
Coast Survey Schooner MORRIS, died heroically while
voluntarily attending sick during Gulf Coast epidemic at Pensacola
Washington
H. Nones, Second Assistant Engineer U. S. Coast Survey
Steamer R. J. WALKER, died during Gulf Coast epidemic
George
E. Shock, Third Assistant Engineer U. S. Coast Survey
Steamer R. J. WALKER, died during Gulf Coast epidemic
June 1, 1854
- Lost by disease on Florida coast:
Unnamed
crewman on U. S. Coast Survey Steamer CORWIN
August 24, 1854 - Lost by boiler explosion on the
U. S. Coast Survey Steamer HETZEL in lower Chesapeake
Bay:
Samuel
C. Latimer, Third Assistant Engineer
William
Bulger, first-class fireman
Bernard
Moran, seaman
William
Gardner, first-class fireman
John
T. Knight, second-class fireman
Michael
Scanlan, ordinary seaman
1856 - Lost by accident on U. S. Coast Survey Brig
FAUNTLEROY in San Francisco Bay:
Unnamed
seaman
August 20, 1856
- Lost by drowning in the Kennebec River:
Mr.
Humphries, Aid
December 14, 1856 -
Lost by disease at Key West, Florida:
S.
J. Hough, aid of topographic party headed by C. T.
Iardella
June 23, 1858 - Died as result of accident near Norfolk,
Virginia, with accompanying complications:
J.
J. S. Hassler, Assistant U. S. Coast Survey
May 25, 1860
- Died as result of disease in San Francisco:
E.
H. Fauntleroy, Aid U. S. Coast Survey in the party
of George Davidson
June
21, 1860 - Loss by collision at sea and subsequent
sinking of the U. S. Coast Survey Steamer ROBERT J. WALKER
off Absecom Inlet, New Jersey:
Henry
H. Reed Captain of the Forecastle
Timothy
Conner Quarter Gunner
Jeremiah
Coffey Cooper
Joseph
M. Brown Quartermaster
Michael
M. Lee Ship's Cook
Marquis
Bonevento Officers' Steward
James
Patterson Officers' Cook
Michael
Allman Seaman
John
Driscoll Seaman
Robert
Wilson Seaman
Cornelius
Crowe Ordinary Seaman
Charles
Miller Ordinary Seaman
George
M. Johnston Landsman
Samuel
Sizer First Class Fireman
Peter
Conway First Class Fireman
Daniel
Smith First Class Fireman
John
Farron Second Class Fireman
James
Farron Second Class Fireman
Joseph
Bates Second Class Fireman
George
Price Second Class Fireman
June
29, 1860 - Lost overboard and presumed drowned from
Coast Survey Steamer BIBB on way to Cape Breton Island,
Canada:
John
McCalmut, seaman
May 20, 1867 - Lost by drowning after boat capsized
on Tillamook Bar, Oregon coast:
Julius
Kincheloe, Sub-assistant U. S. Coast Survey
Charles
West
Elias
N. Steelcup
Beveriah
Steelcup
Samuel
Lanagan
Henry
Ballou
May
28, 1867 - Lost by drowning after small boat
from Surveying
Schooner M. L. STEVENS swamped in San Luis Channel and then
drifted
into the breakers at the edge of the channel.
Seaman
James Goffin
Seaman John Rigin
February
26, 1871 - Lost by drowning after small vessel
capsized in squall while returning to Surveying Schooner SILLIMAN
while returning to ship from Sunday church services.
Aid
Arthur F. Pearl
Aid George W. Bissell
Unnamed seaman
Unnamed seaman
Unnamed seaman
Unnamed seaman
August 17, 1894 - Lost by drowning after boat capsized
coming through surf on Washington coast. Party off of C&GS
Ship MCARTHUR:
Lieutenant Crosby
John Freyer, Quartermaster 3rd Class
William Nehm, Seaman
Alexander Smith, Seaman
Jens Gudmundsen, Seaman
November 11,1902 - Lost by disease in the Philippines:
William
E. Gordon, Aid in the U. S. Coast Survey
1904
- Died of unspecified causes while surveying U. S. Canada boundary
west of Rocky Mountains.
John
Nelson
July 12, 1905 - Lost by drowning off the coast of
Alaska as the result of capsizing of ship's whaleboat
P.
H. Coning, Chief writer of Coast and Geodetic Survey
Steamer GEDNEY
1906
- Lost by drowning as result of whaleboat overturning in surf
at the mouth of the Suribao River, near Borongan on east coast
of Samar
Unnamed
Filipino seaman
May 30, 1908 - Lost overboard and drowned off Coast
and Geodetic Survey Steamer GEDNEY
Quartermaster
Gunderson
1908 - Lost as result of fall from cliff conducting
survey operations off of Coast and Geodetic Survey Steamer EXPLORER
Unnamed
seaman
April 20, 1909 - Lost by drowning while attempting
to reach small boat anchored off Sigayan Point, Illana Bay,
south coast of Mindanao, Philippines. Off of Coast and Geodetic
Survey Ship MARINDUQUE
P.
E. Angell, mate
1909
- Lost as result of accident at Tucson Geophysical
Observatory
Mr.
Keeling, observer
October
16, 1909 - Lost as result of disease at Catbalogan,
Samar, Philippines.
Thorstein
Fretheim, observer
1910
- Lost by drowning as result of upsetting of a small boat under
sail in Cordova Bay, Alaska. Part of crew of Coast and Geodetic
Survey Steamer TAKU.
H.
Fitch, seaman
1912
- Lost as result of fall from tree while conducting
triangulation operations on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington.
Henry
Truedell, Aid U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
1913
- Lost by probable murder by Tagbanuas tribesmen on Culion Island,
Calamianes Islands, Palawan Province, Philippine Islands. Part
of crew off of Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship ROMBLON.
Unnamed
seaman
November 1915 - Lost by drowning from the Steamer
BACHE while the
vessel was anchored off Charleston, South Carolina.
Alfred
Johnson, Mess Attendant
Leroy Scott, Mess Attendant
November
1916 - Lost by probable drowning off of Coast and
Geodetic Survey Steamer YUKON at Kings Cove, Alaska Peninsula.
F.
A. Paul, watchman
November 19, 1918 - Lost by drowning off of Coast
and Geodetic Survey Steamer HYDROGRAPHER.
Anselmo
De Silva
October 4, 1927 - Heroically lost by drowning while
attempting to save the lives of two shipmates. Posthumously
received Department of Commerce Gold Life-saving Medal. Off
of Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship SURVEYOR, at Resurrection
Bay, Seward, Alaska.
W.
H. Bowen, seaman
October 4, 1927 - Lost by drowning off Coast and
Geodetic Survey Ship SURVEYOR at Resurrection Bay, Seward,
Alaska.
Roy
V. Beverly
George
Slavin
October 11, 1928 - Lost by drowning after falling
overboard off of Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PIONEER
during survey of Heceta Bank, Oregon coast.
Earl
Forsberg, seaman
October 17, 1928 - Lost by
drowning as the result of foundering of a skiff in a sudden
squall. Men were part of signal-building crew off the Coast
and Geodetic Survey Ship FATHOMER working on the west
coast of Palawan, Philippine Islands.
Crispin
Alandruque, seaman
Gonsalo
Senitara, seaman
Domingo
Rangasajo, seaman
December 9, 1933 - Lost as result of vehicle accident
between a Coast and Geodetic Survey truck and a Virginia State
Highway truck near Harrisonburg, Virginia. This was the first
traffic fatality involving a Coast and Geodetic Survey employee
while on duty.
T.
J. Hayden, geodetic field party member
April 21, 1935 - Lost as result of vehicle accident
while engaged in flight checking Reno aeronautical chart near
Reno, Nevada.
Henry
C. Olsen, aeronautical chart division
January 1936 - Lost as result of shipboard accident
on the Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship SURVEYOR.
John
Martin, cook
September 26, 1936 - Lost by drowning as result boat
overturning on the north shore of Unalaska Island, Aleutian
Islands, Alaska. Shore party off of Coast and Geodetic Survey
Ship SURVEYOR.
Lt.
(j.g.) Marshall R. Reese, U. S. Coast and Geodetic
Survey
Max
McLees, quartermaster
October 1936 - Lost as result of falling from cliff
on Unimak Island conducting survey operations off of Coast and
Geodetic Survey Ship SURVEYOR.
Robert
F. Stryker, seaman
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