Three Deaths Haunt One Ship in Port Townsend Harbor
Archibald Anderson is knocked into the hold and killed instantly, capping a grim three-month run of fatal misfortune aboard the British ship Linlithgowshire.
Port Townsend, March 14.—Archibald Anderson, third officer of the British ship Linlithgowshire, now in port, was accidentally struck by a ballast basket today, knocked down into the hold and instantly killed. In the last three months three deaths have occurred aboard her. The captain died when the ship was going into Valparaiso, and his successor, just after leaving that port, while temporarily insane, committed suicide by jumping overboard. Before reaching Cape Flattery the second officer fell down the hold, and his injuries may prove fatal.
“In the last three months three deaths have occurred aboard her.”
The Linlithgowshire's run of deaths was no freak in an era when maritime labor was among the most dangerous work on Puget Sound. Port Townsend was then a busy port of call; today the waterfront is a heritage district, but shipyard and ferry workers still face serious safety risks.
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