The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-04-01
A Tardy Voyage.

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steamer Abbotsford, belonging to the Red
Star Line, OF Philadelphia, has arrived at
Jersey City after wonderful passage of
los days from Antwerp. The trip, from
its misadventures, was one of the most
notable on record. Captain De Lammotte
made the following statement:
| We left Antwerp on the 23d of NOvem-
Der, 1874, bound for New York, with AGO
passengers on board, and all proceeded
well till we arrived in the Straits of Dover,
where we stopped for five or six minutes
| to land our North Sea pilot. While thus
engaged, and the pilot was stepping into
boat, the steamer Indus, belonging to
the Peninsular and Oriental Steamship
! Company, ran into us, carrying away our
stem to three feet above the water line.
| The Indus was bound down the Channel,
! like ourselves, and the accident occurred
through the said vessel attempting and
failing to make close shave OF US. The
case is now pending in the English Admi-
ralty courts. We blew our whistles re-
peatedly and backed engines; but she did
not alter her helm quick enough, and
hence the disaster. The collision took
place very near to where the Australian
emigrant ship was run into by the Spanish
steamer Murillo, causing such fearful loss
of life about two years ago. After the
vessels separated and the Indus had moved
| | let 90 my anchors. The following day
we steamed up to the Victoria Docks,
/ London, where we transferred our passen-
gers to another steamer, and the AbbotS-
| ford was repaired, necessitating delay of
upwards of a month.
! On the 22d of December we again sailed
! for our destination with forty new passen
! Co ~ nd 1all
! til we arrived i'm thirty-five degrees west
| longitude. and about fifty degrees north
latitude, being about half way a.ross the
Atlantic, when we encountered very
heavy gale, and one day lost our propeller,
which had broken off. leaving no vestige
behind. The propeller and the whole ship
had been examined in London by LlOyd's
| Surveyor, and what caused it TO snap of
is mystery to me. 1t had been in use for
eighteen months previously, and had never
shown any signs of weakness. Having
lost our screw we were converted into a
sailing ship: and | determined to put
back. Accordingly, on the ID of January,
[ headed the ship for Queenstown. Terri
bic gales prevailed all this time, and no
less than ten steamers foundered in the
Bav of Biscay. We arrived off the Irish
coast on the 18th of january, and while
off the Fastnets, heading for Queenstown,
during the prevalence of heavy gale,
sighted our sister steamer, the Pennsyl-
vana. and signaled her to stand by, which
she responded to. The gale was blowing
dead on the shore from the southwest.
After standing by us, the Pennsylvania
came close to us TO try and give US line,
so that we could get hawser to her and
be toWed by her into Queenstown. While
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MS on the port bow, staving in
about forty feet of the ships side, above
water line. and the sea washed in and out
with the rolling of the steamer. The fore
compartment up to the collision bUlkhead
was filled with water. Our next effort was
to beat off the land, which we succeededin
doing, the Pennsylvania remaining neal
us in case of further accident. The follow
| ing morning, the wind having gone down,
that vessel again came alongside, ,anda haw-
/ ser was cot on board her, and she tOwed us
TO Queenstown, about forty miles distance
The Pennsylvania then proceeded on heI
/ voyage to Philadelphia. After making
ttemporary repairs to our ship we were
taken by two steam-tugs to Liverpool, and
were there put on dry dock and fitted with
a new propeller and completely repaired
and oyerhauled. On the 24th of February
we started for the third time for New
York. with nineteen passengers. We have
had strong westerly gales the entire pas
sage. On March we experienced a hur-
ricane in lat. 45 deg, Ion. 40 deg. 49 min
from west TO northwest, lasting thirty
hours. My arrival here has terminated
the most eventful voyage ever heard OF
in my twenty-five years experience as
sailor. fifteen years of which has beer
passed in crossing the Atlantic, principally
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