Attack On An Emigrant Ship
Intelligence has been received at Lloyd's, under date, Stanley, Falkland Islands, Jan. 5, of a most daring attack on the ship Porcupine, of Liverpool, Millinger, master, by the Patagonians. It…
February 21, 1863 – One of the Heroic Women
A naval command should be bestowed on the heroine of this achievement. Among the American vessels captured by the pirate Retribution, was the American brigantine J. P. Ellicott of Bucksport,…
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Havana Services In Memory Victims Battleship Maine
Havana, Cuba. Feb. 15.—(AP)—Honors were paid !ate today to the 266 officers and men of the United States battleship Maine who perished when the warship was blown up in Havana Harbor 28 years ago today.
In the presence of the president of Cuba and the American ambassador, a tablet containing the names of the men who met death in the disaster was unveiled on the Maine monument. President Machado in an address said the object of the gathering was to render loving tribute to the dead.
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Three Drowned in Schooner’s Wreck
18 Others Saved as Vessel Grounds Off Mass. Coast
OWN FAULT OF VICTIMS
Those Who Lost Lives Returned To Ship To Get Belongings—Another Daring Sea Rescue Reported
Gloucester, Mass., Feb. 10 (AP)—Three members of the fishing schooner Ralph Brown‘s crew lost their lives today when the vessel was driven ashore in the blizzard off Briar Neck. Eighteen others, including the captain, reached shore safely. Although all suffered from exposure and cold.
Had Returned To Boat
The three men who lost their lives were drowned after they, with other members of the crew, had gone back to the schooner to get their clothes and other belongings after she had been washed to tho shore. The others managed to get off before a huge wave struck the 100 foot craft and drove her farther out to sea, but the victims found themselves helpless as the ship was battered by the roaring breakers. The vessel was pounded to pieces.
Silvertown Has Finished
Work of Cable to Be Completed Tomorrow.
LANDING OF CABLE LAST FEATURE
Staff May Get Away for Home Next Week—Station Ship Now Under Discussion.
When, tomorrow morning, the cable ship Silvertown completes coaling and hauls over from the Hackfeld wharf to the Railroad slip for the purpose of finishing the transfer of the cable from the tanks of the vessel to the tanks ashore, the last portion of the business of the great steamer will be on.
The transferring of the 100 miles of cable which still remains in the ship will be a matter of interest, and will occupy the greater portion of the day. The ship will be laid alongside the Railroad wharf and the cable led across to the tanks which have been carefully constructed for the purpose of keeping the cable intact until it may be needed for the purpose of repairs on the line, should there be a break. The cable must be kept under water, and the tank is arranged specially for the purpose of keeping the materials in the best shape until a call for a length comes.
Message in Bottle Tells of Shipwreck
Note Written in Dutch Found Floating in St. Lawrence Closes With “Adieu.”
By the Associated Press.
QUEBEC, November 2.—”Lost in storm. Written by one of the shipwrecked crew of the S. S. Aophard, Holland. Please be kind enough to forward this to Safekeeping. Happened October 25, 1925. Written by Ye Teolsa, Adieu.”
This message, countersigned by “Capt. Banderweevoen,” was found in a bottle in the St. Lawrence River near the lighthouse on Ste. Felicite, Quebec. October 27. It was written in Dutch, and, following its translation today by Abbe Desmet of Laval University, was sent to the Department of Marine and Fisheries at Ottawa.
Majestic Sails Despite Strikers
Three Other Steamers Get Crews and Leave
London, Sept. 2 (AP)—The situation in British home ports resulting from the official strike of seamen against a wage reduction was somewhat eased today by the sailing of the While Star liner Majestic from Southampton and the news that three steamers at Hull had finally obtained crews and would leave on time.
On the other hand there was little diminution in the seriousness of the situation in dominion ports as reflected in advices reaching London.
Another Sad Shipwreck
Schooner Warren, Capt. Davis, of Fall River, Mass., from Matanzas Dec. 26th for Bristol R. I., was wrecked at Hatteras, previous to Thursday last. The crew lashed themselves in the…
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Tanner Again in Commission
Fifty-Year-Old Brig Is to Load Cargo of Lumber at Mukilteo for This Port
HULL IS EVERLASTING
In Spite of Age and Shipwreck Her Ancient Timbers Still Hang Together
The brig Tanner is going to celebrate her jubilee by making another voyage from the north to this port. At least half a dozen times has this time-worn craft been wrecked, and as often has her obituary been written. She has been sailing the seas since 1855, when she was launched from a shipyard long passed away at Smithtown, N. Y. “Arrived, brig Tanner, in distress,” Is an entry which appears with surprlsing frequency on the records of the Merchants’ Exchange. She knows all about Davy Jones’ locker from personal observation, and more than once in the “disaster” column of the marine records she has been classed as “wreck, total loss.”
Efforts to Save Brig Tanner Fail
PORT ANGELES (Wash.), October 28.—Efforts so far to haul off the brig Tanner, which went ashore last Saturday near Elwha river, six miles west of this city, have proved futile. The vessel so far is not damaged by the seas. Further effort will be made by tugs at high tide tomorrow. The tug captain believes the vessel can be hauled off if more tugs can be procured before the storm comes, otherwise she will prove a total loss.
The news that the old brig Tanner had gone ashore at Port Angeles and probably would prove a total loss was received yesterday in the local shipping world with considerable interest. The Tanner was about the oldest and one of the most picturesque vessels on the Pacific. In 1855, when she was launched at Smithtown, N. Y., she was as tight and saucy a brig as ever flew the stars and stripes. Forty-eight years of sea service, however, transformed the Tanner into a floating sieve in which no sailorman less brave than her skipper and owner, Captain Newhall, would have dared to venture beyond easy reach of a life-saving station.