These four young men were the sons of an old man who lived in Portland, Maine, and when he heard what had happened he came right down to the Island to see if he could find their bodies.

They had all come ashore and had been buried in Markdale graveyard; but he was determined to take them up and carry them home for burial.

He said he had promised their mother to take her boys home to her and he must do it.

So they were taken up and put on board a sailing vessel at Markdale Harbour to be taken back to Maine, while the father himself went home on a passenger steamer.

The name of the sailing vessel was the Seth Hall, and the captain's name was Seth Hall, too.