Penny’s Family Tree - Person Sheet
Penny’s Family Tree - Person Sheet
NameChristopher Sailor 
Birth2 Jan 1904, philippines Islands
Death9 May 1933, San Mateo Co., CA
Burial15 May 1933, South San Francisco, San Mateo Co., CA
ReligionRoman Catholic
FatherGeorge Sailor (1883-)
MotherConsuelo Garrde (1883-1948)
Misc. Notes
Died Young
According to the 1920 Census Christopher had attended school in 1919 when he was around 15.
San Francisco Chronicle, Friday, May 12, 1933, Front Page, column 5.
Planes save Youth in Bay Night Search (large print)
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Companion Slips From Swamped Boat as Flares Summon Rescuers
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Pair Cling Eleven Hours to Tiny Craft Fighting Wind, Tide
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The tragic end of the four-hour search by airplanes, launches and Coast Guard cutters was picked out of the darkness of a wind-swept bay last night by the light of an airplane flare---one exhausted youth clinging with frozen fingers to a waterlogged skiff, a few minutes after his companion had slipped under the waves.
As the flare went out, a Coast Guard boat came alongside the half submerged craft and took aboard Charles Viggins, 17, Brisbane High School youth, half dead after an 11-hour battle with wind and tide.
COMPANION VANISHES
Christopher Sailor, 29, also of Brisbane, the man who had clung with him for two and a half hours to the side of the sinking little boat was nowhere in sight.
“He slipped and ---and---went---down,” the Wiggin boy gasped---and lapsed into unconsciousness in the arms of a Coast Guard officer.
From 7:30 p.m. until after 11, two airplanes, the Coast Guard, private launches and a Sheriff’s boat had searched the dark, stormy bay in one of the most intensive rescue dramas the San Francisco water side as seen in recent years.
CROWDS WATCH SEARCH
Crowds lined the shore, huddling around little fires, straining, peering through the blackness for a sign of the missing craft and it’s two occupants.
From a cliff Mrs. Charles Harrison and Mrs. Consuelo Sailor, mothers of the castaways, stared anxiously out on the desolate scene during the long, dreadful hours---hoping against hope their boys would be brought ashore alive.
The Wiggins boy was taken to the South San Francisco Hospital, given treatment and put to bed. Physicians considered his condition to be serious.
CRIES FOR COMPANION
Worn out, he struggled against sleep and in weak, staccato sentences kept asking about his companion.
“Where is he?----Where is he?----He---slipped and---went down-----”
The two had set out at 10 a.m. yeaterday in a little boat they had made themselves out of material bought for $3.
They fished until noon according to the story gasped out by the Wiggins boy. Then the tide turned against them.
The combination of the tide and wind was more than they could buck. They took turns at the oars. The waves swamped the boat.
CRIES SUMMON HELP
Darkness settled, but by repeated cries they attracted attention of persons on the beach. Sheriff James J. McGrath, notified, called San Francisco police to the rescue and two planes, piloted by D. L. McIntyre and H. G. Slingsby, left Mills Field at 7:30 p.m. Power boats and launches were called out.
The flyers returned unsuccessful and procuring flares set out a second time, both in McIntyre’s plane dropping the flares.
San Francisco Chronicle, May 13, 1933, Front Page column 2, portrait:
Bay Boat Upset, Drowns Man, Two Rescued (large print)
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Fishing Trip of Three Friends Ends With Tragedy
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One man is dead and two others are in Mission Emergency Hospital in a serious condition as the result of a second boat capsizing tragedy near Hunters Point within the last twenty-four hours.
The man drewned yyester was George Strohecker, 63, 185 Fair Oaks street, night dispatcher for the Castro street cable system. The twwo in hospital are Herbert Schenk, 30, 748 Castro street, and James Fuller, 33, 560 San Jose avenue, gripman for the cable line.
Thursday Christopher Sailor, 29, Brisbane photographer, lost his life near the same spot, after capsizing in a boat with Charles Wiggin, 17, Brisbane high school student. Wiggins was rescued after an airplane and motot boat search which lasted for hours. ......
(Note:This article continues but is unrelated to Christopher.)
San Francisco Chronicle, May 17, 1933, page 17, column 3.
Jury Lays Drowning to Man’s Faulty Boat
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The death of Christopher Sailor, 29-year-old Brisbane photographer who was drewned in San Francisco bay, near Brisbane, May 11, was attributed to a faulty boat by a Coroner’s jury at the inquest in South San Francisco yesterday.
San Francisco Examiner, (don’t know which day)
The body of Christopher Sailor, 29, of Brisbane, drowned when his home-made row-boat capsized in bay last Thursday, was recovered yesterday by Sheriff James J. McGrath, and Undersheriff Lawrence Nieri, in shallow water between Brisbane and South San Francisco. Taken to an undertaking parlor the body was identified by Sailor’s sister, Mary, 15.
San Francisco Examiner, Monday, May 15, 1933 Vital Statistics page 11.
County Burial for Bay Victim Likely
Christopher Sailor, 29, Brisbane photographer, drowned when his home-made skiff capsized in bay last Thursday, will be buried this morning. But his funeral, according to Deputy Coroner Silvio Nieri of San Mateo county, will be a county funeral unless sone one supplies the required funds.
Sailor, Nieri explained, was the sole support of a widowed mother and a small sister and the family is left destitute.
According to the 1920 Census Christopher had attended school in 1919 when he was around 15.
San Francisco Chronicle, Friday, May 12, 1933, Front Page, column 5.
Planes save Youth in Bay Night Search (large print)
_________
Companion Slips From Swamped Boat as Flares Summon Rescuers
_________
Pair Cling Eleven Hours to Tiny Craft Fighting Wind, Tide
_________
The tragic end of the four-hour search by airplanes, launches and Coast Guard cutters was picked out of the darkness of a wind-swept bay last night by the light of an airplane flare---one exhausted youth clinging with frozen fingers to a waterlogged skiff, a few minutes after his companion had slipped under the waves.
As the flare went out, a Coast Guard boat came alongside the half submerged craft and took aboard Charles Viggins, 17, Brisbane High School youth, half dead after an 11-hour battle with wind and tide.
COMPANION VANISHES
Christopher Sailor, 29, also of Brisbane, the man who had clung with him for two and a half hours to the side of the sinking little boat was nowhere in sight.
“He slipped and ---and---went---down,” the Wiggin boy gasped---and lapsed into unconsciousness in the arms of a Coast Guard officer.
From 7:30 p.m. until after 11, two airplanes, the Coast Guard, private launches and a Sheriff’s boat had searched the dark, stormy bay in one of the most intensive rescue dramas the San Francisco water side as seen in recent years.
CROWDS WATCH SEARCH
Crowds lined the shore, huddling around little fires, straining, peering through the blackness for a sign of the missing craft and it’s two occupants.
From a cliff Mrs. Charles Harrison and Mrs. Consuelo Sailor, mothers of the castaways, stared anxiously out on the desolate scene during the long, dreadful hours---hoping against hope their boys would be brought ashore alive.
The Wiggins boy was taken to the South San Francisco Hospital, given treatment and put to bed. Physicians considered his condition to be serious.
CRIES FOR COMPANION
Worn out, he struggled against sleep and in weak, staccato sentences kept asking about his companion.
“Where is he?----Where is he?----He---slipped and---went down-----”
The two had set out at 10 a.m. yeaterday in a little boat they had made themselves out of material bought for $3.
They fished until noon according to the story gasped out by the Wiggins boy. Then the tide turned against them.
The combination of the tide and wind was more than they could buck. They took turns at the oars. The waves swamped the boat.
CRIES SUMMON HELP
Darkness settled, but by repeated cries they attracted attention of persons on the beach. Sheriff James J. McGrath, notified, called San Francisco police to the rescue and two planes, piloted by D. L. McIntyre and H. G. Slingsby, left Mills Field at 7:30 p.m. Power boats and launches were called out.
The flyers returned unsuccessful and procuring flares set out a second time, both in McIntyre’s plane dropping the flares.
San Francisco Chronicle, May 13, 1933, Front Page column 2, portrait:
Bay Boat Upset, Drowns Man, Two Rescued (large print)
____________
Fishing Trip of Three Friends Ends With Tragedy
____________
One man is dead and two others are in Mission Emergency Hospital in a serious condition as the result of a second boat capsizing tragedy near Hunters Point within the last twenty-four hours.
The man drewned yyester was George Strohecker, 63, 185 Fair Oaks street, night dispatcher for the Castro street cable system. The twwo in hospital are Herbert Schenk, 30, 748 Castro street, and James Fuller, 33, 560 San Jose avenue, gripman for the cable line.
Thursday Christopher Sailor, 29, Brisbane photographer, lost his life near the same spot, after capsizing in a boat with Charles Wiggin, 17, Brisbane high school student. Wiggins was rescued after an airplane and motot boat search which lasted for hours. ......
(Note:This article continues but is unrelated to Christopher.)
San Francisco Chronicle, May 17, 1933, page 17, column 3.
Jury Lays Drowning to Man’s Faulty Boat
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The death of Christopher Sailor, 29-year-old Brisbane photographer who was drewned in San Francisco bay, near Brisbane, May 11, was attributed to a faulty boat by a Coroner’s jury at the inquest in South San Francisco yesterday.
San Francisco Examiner, (don’t know which day)
The body of Christopher Sailor, 29, of Brisbane, drowned when his home-made row-boat capsized in bay last Thursday, was recovered yesterday by Sheriff James J. McGrath, and Undersheriff Lawrence Nieri, in shallow water between Brisbane and South San Francisco. Taken to an undertaking parlor the body was identified by Sailor’s sister, Mary, 15.
San Francisco Examiner, Monday, May 15, 1933 Vital Statistics page 11.
County Burial for Bay Victim Likely
Christopher Sailor, 29, Brisbane photographer, drowned when his home-made skiff capsized in bay last Thursday, will be buried this morning. But his funeral, according to Deputy Coroner Silvio Nieri of San Mateo county, will be a county funeral unless sone one supplies the required funds.
Sailor, Nieri explained, was the sole support of a widowed mother and a small sister and the family is left destitute.