On the night of November 26, 1898, with a killer storm of historic proportions approaching, the steamer Portland set out from Boston.
Life-Saving Service and the Cape\'s citizenry in what came to be known as \'The Portland Gale.\'.
Local author Don Wilding revisits this disaster and the heroic deeds of the U.
S.
Several Cape Cod mariners went to sea and never returned, caught in the gale\'s evil clutches.
On the Cape, a few dozen victims of the Portland disaster washed ashore, while ships piled up in harbors, high tides swept away railroad tracks, and the landsCape and beaches were changed forever.
By the following night, the winter hurricane sent the vessel to the depths of Massachusetts Bay off Cape Cod, claiming nearly two hundred lives.
On the night of November 26, 1898, with a killer storm of historic proportions approaching, the steamer Portland set out from Boston
