The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-06 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURE OF

THREE SEAMEN.

A bare possibility has just been accomplished by three
sailors. The facts of the case are as follows : 011 Toes-
day, June 15, the brig Isabel l3eurmann sailed from this
harbour for Port•an-Prince with a valuable assorted cargo,
and on the next day the brig Caroline also sailed hence for
Aspinwall. The latter vessel had proceeded about 165
miles from Sandy Hook, and was about 150 miles S.E. by
S. from Barnegat, when she discovered, on the morning of
Saiurday following, about 7 o'clock, what looked like an
abandoned vessel. She sailed over close to the wreck and
found her to be the Isabel Beurniann, which had evidently
been in collision with another ship. her sails were
clewed up, her bowsprit broken off, and in tow of the ves-
sel by the ropes forming a part of her rigging, and the
vessel's port anchor was fastened in it so that it was
afterwards found impossible to have them disentangled;
her mainsail was also trailing over her quarter in the water,
and her foremast was damaged near the topsail yard ; but,
worst of all, her starboard bow was cloven by a collision
with another vessel several inches below the water mark,
and the whole forward part of the brig had the appearance
of having been severely shattered. John Porter, the mate
of the Caroline, determined to ' attempt bringing the
wrecked vessel to port, and two of the seamen, named John
Johnston and William Thompson, volunteered him their
assistance. The wrack was now boarded, and found to
contain more than six feet of water in her hold, and to
be leaking badly. In another half-hour she must have
sunk, for her main deck was already on a level with the i
water. Captain Whitebury, of the Caroline, hove his own
vessel to, and lay by all day, while the whole of his crew,
with the exception of the cook, wore set to work on the
wreck for the purpose of pumping her. A pump was soon
got into working order, and the vessel was soon light-
ened and eased considerably, and finally, towards the even-
ing, all the water was removed from her hold. The next
thing to be accomplished was to get the vessel into some
kind of sailing trim. Old canvass was app!ied to the broken
bow to keep the water from returning to the hold. The
jibboom, port anchor, and all the useless material con-
nected with them, were cut away, and now the Caroline
bid the wreck and its navigators adieu. The three men
being left to themselves continued the work of getting ready
to sail, and at length she was got into a condition for
spreading the canvass. A series of light breezes fortu-
nately prevailed, and blew from the south till the vessel
at length arrived within 12 miles of Sandy Hook, when
those on board were alarmed by the squall which passed
over this city on Monday evening, but fortunately it did
not strike the wreck with much violence, and she con-
tinued her course until she arrived in the lower bay,
was boarded by a pilot, and finally towed to the pier
in the East river, at the foot of Pine-street. The
vessel's stores were all found to have been removed when
she was boarded, and everything else was taken from her
that was portable, with the exception of her boats and
rigging. The value of the vessel and cargo is estimated
at 40,000 dols., and of this a large amount must go for sal-
vage to reward the brave men who risked their lives to
i crone her from total destruction. The vessel that came
in collision with the brig was the whaling ship Spartan,
which was reported as having run into the brig on the
17th by a vessel which arrived at Holnies's Hole. The
Spartan was spoken by this vessel on the 19th, when it was
learned that all the passengers and crew of the wreck were
on board the Spartan, bound for Nan ucket, and they
were all well. No doubt the Spartan has by this time
, arrived at her destination. The following passengers sailed
in the Isabel Beurtnann on the 1511 of June :—J. D. St.
Herman, Jules Nillars, Miss Alexis, tend John Privanx.—
Vess York Herald.

MARKET SEW.S.—(Titis Da' )