John Paulsen
Position: Cook
Incident Details
7/11/1958
On July 11, 1958, the lobster boat R. W. Griffin collided with the British freighter City of Karachi about 70 miles south of Martha's Vineyard. Four members of the crew--Samuel Vincent, Tore Rubin, Grandison Taber, and George Wiswell--were rescued by the Coast Guard, but Captain Warren B. Vincent, Engineer Milton Taber, and Cook John Paulsen were not found.