The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1866-01-26
4 Ship on Fire in the Atlantic.

he ship Caravan, from Mobile TO Liv-
erpooi, pu, into Greenock, from stress of
weather, aud short Of provisions, which
reports a disaster to the ship Casilda, be-
longing to Messrs. Geo. Warren & Co., of
Liverpool, which sailed on the 9Th of No.
vember from Liverpool to Boston, under
the charge OF Capt. sedgely. When the
Caravan met with her, both vessel and car.
go were on fire, but all hands were saved
BY Capt. Marshal and his men, and convey
ed to Greenock, where they were landed.
Capt. Sedgely, of tie Caslda, gives the
following account Of the burning of bis
ship:
CAT 4 p. NJ, on December 9Th. and
when in longitude abou, al deg west. an q
latitude, 43 deg. 80 mic. north, we found
the ship to be on fire, smoke coming up
the after scuttle and through the rails,
filing the cabin with smoke and GAS, so
that man could not live in the cabin or
hardly on deck, The man took lantern
ard undertook to 60 below, but he found
he could not breathe three feet from the
hatch. and the light In the lantern at once
went out, showing that it would be i'm
possible for man 10 breathe in the poop
deck three feet from the scutte. think
the ship could not have been on fire tul a
few minutes when it was discovered, and
in one hour after, or less, there was a very
hot FIRE, as the ventila,ors ia the covering
boards got quite hot, and the paint about
the covering boards and WATERWAYS became
nuch hlisiered. We put ths after scuttle
on and caulked it down, aud papered all
the cracks up we could where we saw
smoke coming out, to keep The fire under
As much rs possible; hu. s,lll great deal
~ smoke came from different parts of Tie
ship, almost enough to sutle u. on deck
Ca the morning of the 7th of Dec.
sent man aloft to look for a sail No
sooner was he to the masthead than be
gave the welcome sound Of Sail. oh, y
which gaGdened every heart Oh board
he sail bore w N. W from us. We AT
once bove our ship to head TO nor,hw ard,
and hoisied the flag OF distress He a.
once kept away and run down and hove 10
under eur lee She proved to he the ship
Caravan, Capt. Robt Marshal, from Mo
bile, bound to Liverpool TIE chief off
Ger, with four men, went alongside of ,be
Caravan and put some few things on board
which we had put into the boat before
launching, aud returued with Capt, Mar
shai's advice to leave with all hands As
soon as possible As the wind and sea was
increasing; and he saw snake issuing from
different parts of the ship.
The boats returned from the shin
(Casi da) about ll:30 a. m, and viii,
much trouble and danger, We succeeded
IN getting some few ,hlrgs INTO the boa,
by heavlng them overheard and the boat
picking them up And then The great
trouble was to save our lives and the
only chance We saw was to i1mp over,
board and let the boat pick US up. The
boat got AS near tue ship as she could,
and then myself aud the Test of The men,
except two, jumped overheard, ana were
picked up by the boat; and after we were
in, we found it would not do to take any
more in the boat at that time. Went
alongside of the Caravan, ru, what few
:bicgs We had saved and par; of the men
on board; then the mate, with five rnen,
returned to save the two men remaininp
on board. They got back to the ship
(CaslIda) by great exel,ions, or as near as
near as they could get to her, aud then the
two men jumped overheard, and were
picked up by the boat, as we had done
before We succeeded in getting all
hands on board of the Caravan abou; 9 80
P IN. When the mate left the ship the
last time, be said the smoke was coming
from all parts of her. don't think the
fire could have teen kept copfned more
than few hours longer"