New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-08
pERILS on THE OCEAN.
BURNING AN ABANDONED NORWEGIAN BARK-A
STEAMER AMONG THE ICEBFRGs.

BURNING AN ABANDONED NORWEGIAN BARK-A
STEAMER AMONG THE ICEBFRGs.
The bark Jennie Hardness, which arrived ycstcr-
day from Glasgow, reports that ON April ~ IN Iatl,
tude AGO north, longitude 2Oo i6 west she sighted
a bark under lower tOpsallS and NIXON StaYslls.
The vessel seemed to come mp on her course and
then drop off again, and upon drawing nearer sIg1
nails of distress were seen flying, and the word
"sinling" was written with chalk on her port
quarter. Boats were lowered and sent to her TO
fake off the crew but she found to be the bark
Marie of Christana, Norway, abandoned aud
waterOGged. Htr cargo consisted of scrap iron and
chemicals and, as the vessel could not be brought
into port and was IL dangerous position to other
vessels, she was set On fire.
The Marie sailed from Liverpool for Ncw-York
with a cargo of scrap iron, on March g. She was
commanded by Captain Olsen, and had crew OF
ten III all. A cable dispatch says that on Apr
the Marie was spoken by the steamer Trinacria,
from New-YOrk for London, i'll a sinking condition,
and the crow was rescued and landed in London.
On the following day the abandoned bark was
sighted by the British bark One from ST. Johns. y.
r. to Swansea. Finding the vessel 10 be IN APP
parcntly good condition mate aud three Seamen
were put Oh hoard prze crew, with INSTRUCTIONS
to make for the nearest port. ON April tn" prize
crew was taken off by the bark Berllan Wood and
landed at Antwerp. At the time the Marie was
abandoned by the prize crow, she was making
about two feet of water day, having become
strained by heavy weather. and the blge water had
| become so mpTegnatcd with chemicals from tho
cargo that cOITOded the flesh wherever 1t touched
The steamship Henry Edye, which arrived yestcr-
day from Antwerp, had serious experience III the
ice on the voyage, out arrived WltHouJ meeting alV
great damage. On April % the vessel was hOvc-tO
for eight hours during heavy gales. About noon
Anril 80 in latitude At 81 north, longitude 10 -
SO west large iceberg was seen, ami at 4 p. m.
the steamer ran two other large bcrRs. and
suddenly discovered they were surrounded by large
fields of ice, as far to the north and west as the eve
could reach. course to the southwark was made
along the edge Of the Ice field Two sailing vessels
were seen last in the ice, but requiring no assist
ance. About p. m, the steamer being surrounded
by large foes of hummock iicei her speed was
checked and an hour a1tcrward large iceberg was
seen to loom up directly under the bows. The en-
gincs were stopped and reversed, and the vessel
barely escaped striking the berg. The engines
were not started ahead again until daylight on May
1, when there was nothing but field ice to be seen
as far as the eye could reach from the masthead,
excepting blue ridge Of water-a "lcad'-to the
eastward About half mile in from the edge Of
the field were tine two sailing vessels; Gradually
the steamer was worked through 10 the sOui hery
edge of the ice Just before dusk on tho same day,
when four more large icebcrgs wcro seen. The
weather then shut in thick, and the steamer was
away and 10 more ice was seen