Mishaum

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3/26/1953

On March 27, 1953, the dragger Mishaum, en route from Newport, Rhode Island, to New Bedford, broke up in heavy seas off Horseneck Beach in Westport. Peter H. Foley and Joseph A. Wehrman were drowned.

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Joseph Wehrman 43
Peter Foley 57
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