He died in an attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean with Frances Wilson Grayson aboard The Dawn.

After serving two four-year terms in the Navy, he and Morris Titterington, the inventor of the ground induction compass, formed the Pioneer Instrument Company in 1919.

On December 23, 1927 Frances Wilson Grayson with Brice H. Goldsborough as her navigator left from Curtis Field in New York for Harbour Grace, Newfoundland.

Her plan was to leave from Newfoundland on a record setting transatlantic flight to London on Christmas day.

In 1928, the Ontario Surveyor General named a number of lakes in the northwest of the province to honour aviators who had perished during 1927, mainly in attempting oceanic flights.