The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-07-20
A Cyclone.


'Cap'n Baker," said an unmistakable
Bohemian yesterday afternoon, accosting
the master of the British bark CLAIMS, on
the Harrison street dock.
The captain turned courteously to the
obtrusive stranger and asked, "Well,
what can / do for you?"
sCap'n, I've been lookiu' for you these
two days, and I'm tired almost to death. y
Sorry you've had so much trouble. y
Eyes? Well, what wanted to see you
about was this: Here have the memoir.
ands of the British bark GlAmis, with
coal from Newcastle and Lyttleton. 1t
says: 'On the 18th of April, latitude 35
south and longitude 155 west, expert
enced severe cylone, lasting for two
days, with heavy cross seas. The vessel
at times was almost completely sub.
merged, but ultimately escaped without
injury. Wind from all points of the
compass, accompanied with binding
rain storms and . most peculiar rum
bling noise Now, think there must be
q good story in that storm, and would
like to know all about it."
cts all there in that memorandum;
don't think could add anything at
all to it. 1t was most unevertful voy-
age"
Eyes; this is the short of it; but want
the details, Csp'n. Was it bad cy-
clone?'
'No; cyclones are very good, but this
one, although severe, was by no means
one of the worst"
"What did the ship do?"
do? What could she do but waltz
right through it. We took in every stitch
of sail except the maintops'l; we would
have taken that In too, but we couldn't;
the wind was raging SO by the time we
got to it that it would have gone to rib
bons the moment that it was loosed, so
we were obliged to leave it out"
well, go on, Cap'n."
Really, there's nothing to tell; it was
the most uneventful voyage that I ever
made"
wasn't the cyclone an event?"
well, cyclone, coming up through
those seas, is almost q matter of course.
An ordinary one like that wasn't any
worse than washing day at home on the
shore"
81 suppose so, viewed from the stand
point of whale; but, by the way, didn't
the Glamis kick about or do ANYTHING
when those cross seas we're around?"
How? Do anything and kick about?"
II mean didn't she turn hand springs
from the top of one wave to another, and
break things and the like?"
No. told you she just drifted around
in circle. You see Cyclone has two
motions, q circular and q progressive
one. II you understood the law of
winds might make it plain to you"
"Yes, see. What was the radius of
the circle the ship made?"
How can / tell. 1t would take q
dozen log books kept at different points,
to calculate that. tell You the voyage
was altogether uneyentful."
But didn't anything break or give
way?"
''No; not thing except a back STAY
and fore stay; but that was nothing. )"
"How about those cross seas?"
Gross seas man! That was because
the wind blew from every quarter.
Cross seas! Why the sea was at times q
sheat OF foam, so you couldn't see the
waves ct all. But that's nothing"
"The memorandum says-and here it
is-that the vessel was at times sub.
merged. How about that? Wasn't il
pretty rough?"
what II she had gone forty thousand
fathoms under, isn't she here all right
now? Right there she is, the Glamis
Look ct her. Do you see anything
wrong about that ship"
Did anybody get overboard?''
What would anybody get overheard
Fall into the ocean, 1 mean. when
the storm was blowing?"
''No, but il you had been on board
somebody would have fallen into the
ocean, and there wouldn't have been !
lifs-buoy thrown ont after him either ;
''But I wasn't on board. csp'n, and j
didn't get overheard. Amt I here. I'll
right Look ct me. See anything wrong
about me?r
The Bohemian thought he was ever
with he captain then, and asked: "Well
Wis about that peculiar rumblin(
noioo'7s
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