The Job H. Jackson

PURNELL, District Judge.

On or about the 20th of September, 1906, the schooner Job H. Jackson loaded with a cargo of lumber, bound from Savannah, Ga., to New York and Philadelphia, was a derelict, having been dismasted and water-logged by a storm or hurricane and abandoned at sea. The schooner was drifting on the outer edge of Frying Pan Shoals, in the track of vessels engaged in commerce north and south on the Atlantic coast, and a menace to commerce. She was reported as a derelict and as having lost three of her crew by two United States cruisers, which report was published in the…