Note 15 — THE SCOTTISH FISHERIES.[14]

This fearful loss, it may be borne in mind, fell not upon fishermen and merchants, but upon the poor fishermen alone—most of the survivors being thereby rendered destitute. “Of those who perished at Wick, 17 left widows and 60 children; at Helmsdale, the 13 drowned have left 9 widows and 25 children; of the 26 men belonging to Port Gordon and Buckie, who perished at Peterhead, 8 have left widows and 22 children; and, including the 13 widows and 54 children of the 19 men lost belonging to Stonehaven and Johnshaven, there will be left 47 widows and 161 children totally unprovided for—a calamity without precedent in the annals of the British fisheries.”—Captain Washington’s Report, p. xvii.