Abbreviations used
Date March 27 1880
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper Saint John Globe
The language of the text is the original used in the newspaper entry and as transcribed by Daniel F. Johnson. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate.
Arthur ROBERTS, age 17, of Beaver River, N.S., was lost overboard from barque "Ecuador"of Yarmouth, on passage from St. John to Glasgow on 13th Feb. and was drowned.