Jason
Full-Rigged Ship · United Kingdom · Lost 1893 · Cape Cod & Nantucket Shoals
An iron British ship nearing the end of a Calcutta-to-Boston jute voyage was driven onto the bars at Pamet River in a blinding snow gale, killing all but one aboard.
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The Vessel and Her Loss
The iron ship Jason, built in 1870 and registered at Greenock, Scotland, had survived a dismasting cyclone en route from Calcutta with a cargo of jute before nearing Boston in December 1893. On December 5, disoriented by blinding snow and gale winds, Capt. George McMillan ran the ship onto the bars near the Pamet River in Truro. Life-Saving Service crews from several stations worked through the night but could save only one man, apprentice Samuel J. Evans; the captain and 23 others died.
Vessel
- 1870
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- Greenock, Scotland
- Iron
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- 1586
- Sail, full-rigged ship
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Loss
- December 5, 1893
- Navigational error
- Bars off Pamet River, Truro
- Atlantic Ocean, outer Cape Cod
- Calcutta, India → Boston, Massachusetts
- Jute
- 25
- 24
- George McMillan
The Wreck Today
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Position
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- Pamet River, Truro, Massachusetts
Evidence
Overall confidence: Documented (85/100)
Build details, tonnage, voyage history, and wreck narrative.
Wicked Local, citing J.W. Dalton, The Lifesavers of Cape Cod (1902)
Contemporary Life-Saving Service account, captain's name, casualty figures, survivor's name.
Digital Commonwealth (Historical Society of Old Yarmouth)
Confirms wreck location and date via period photograph record.
