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Today in Cape and islands history: Ice-locked Nantucket residents threatened with famine
On this day in 1936, as reported by the Associated Press - "A large transport plane bearing more than 1,500 pounds of foodstuffs took off from East Boston airport today to prevent a threatened famine on the ice-locked island."
It was the second time in three years that bitterly cold winters surrounded Nantucket with ice and kept ferries from delivering food, fuel and other supplies.
The 3,800 residents of Nantucket were "cut off from the world by six miles of ice surrounding their island," reported the International News Service, INS (which merged with United Press in 1958 to become UPI).
"Even coastguard cutters crashing steel prows into the ice were unable to get into the harbor," according to INS. "No ship has touched the island shores since early Saturday," two days earlier.
Ice also covered Provincetown harbor for the first time in 20 years and prevented vessels from passing through the Cape Cod Canal.
(The photo shows the ferry Nobska trapped in ice off Nantucket during another cold winter, that of 1964; photo credit, www.nobska.org)
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