The Drumelzier Holds Out Hope (1904)

The men on shore kept the bonfires going strong in the middle of the rough winter weather, the night of the 28th of December, keeping an anxious vigil on the stranded tramp steamer in the distance. Their repeated attempts of rescue had failed so far, beaten back by blinding snow and rough waves, but they wanted the thirty men on the Drumelzier to know that they were not alone, so they kept the fires roaring. Ship Name: Drumelzier Year Built: 1895 Nationality: British Tonnage: 3625 Ship Type: Steam Freighter Year Wrecked: 1904 Location Wrecked: Fire Island, New York Reason For Wreck: Snow Storm, Possible Problem With Compass, Some Alleged Navigational Incompetence. Lives Lost: None Sources: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/12/30/101174351.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0 https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/12/27/120273903.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0 https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/12/31/101405688.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0 https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/12/29/101405369.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0 https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/12/30/101174271.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0 https://www.limaritime.org/uploads/6/7/3/9/67398695/dec_26_1904_-_drumelzier_2022.jpg https://njscuba.net/dive-sites/new-york-dive-sites/long-island-coast-chart/drumelzier/ Lost Voyages: two centuries of shipwrecks in the approaches to New York by Bradley Sheard, Published 1998 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/136664887?searchTerm=drumelzier%20ship https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/136664949?searchTerm=drumelzier%20ship https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/209102981?searchTerm=drumelzier%20ship https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/153980195?searchTerm=drumelzier%20ship