Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-09-12


From the San Francisco Chroniels Of
the I'd We get tho account following Of
the wreck Of the Puget Sound lumber
carrier Dublin:
The dense fog which has prevailed in
the harbor and along the coast for the
past week was ON Thursday evening dis
astrous in one case and damaging IN
another. One bark, the Dublin, went
ashore below the Cliff House, and the
British bark Isle of Anglesea drifted ON
Arch rock, inside the harbOr, and mar
rowly escaped being wrecked. From
Captain David Maloney, master of the
bark Dublin, a reporter learned that she
sailed from Seabeck. w. T.. on the 18th
of August, experiencing fine weather
until five days ago, when she was caught
in the fog. During all these DAVIS she
beat up and down around the Heads,
trying to get pilot, or to enter the
Golden Gate. On Thursday evening,
about SIX o'clock. the fog still being
thick, she unavoidably worked nearer
the ocean beach; but the Captain OBJ
serving that the bark Isle of An2lesea
was standing closer in shore than the
Dublin. he thought that everything was
safe. Before long the bark got into the
strong incoming tide. and drifted help
lessly, until at last she stuck fast in the
sand.
A. TOTAL Loss.
The news reached tho owner, w. j.
Adams, during the same night, and the
tug Holyoke was sent to her assistance.
After cruising along the beach looking
for the ll-fated bark until 3 O'Clock in
the morning, the task was given up and
the tug returned. At noon next day
four other tugs were sent out to pull
the Dublin off. The tide beng favOra-
BILE, at 2 o'clock the four Tugs, two at
tached to large hawsers, made an effOlt
to haul her out. The first attempt re-
suited in nothing bot the parting of the
lines. The second attempt was equally
unsuccessful this time the bits in the
bark to which the line was attached be-
ing pulled out of their sockets like SO
many sticks in the mud. At this stage
of affairs the reporter arrived at the
scene of the wreck. Two of the tugs
had already given up tho task, and
we're making for home. In few more
minutes the third one steamed away,
while the fourth took OF the vessels
crew, and like the others left the bark
to her fate. She is lying about two
miles below tho Cliff House, and about
led yards from the beach. in twelve feet
of water, rolling from one side to the
other, the breakers dashing within few
feet Of the main deck. The mainmast
slipped off its step, and went crashing
through her bottom and sunk into the
sand, so that the Dublin is now full of
water. At the time she struck. all sails
were set, showing that desperate efforts
were being made to Keep her from
bleaching. When the tugs gave up the
task of getting her off the sand, that
moment she was given up by those in
torestej in her as q total loss. It is
probable that nothing can be saved with
profit, as the expenses would consume
the value of verything taken off. Bids
were asked for on the vessel, $500 be-
ing considered fair price, and if that
price is obtained the owner and his
agents will consider themselves well
out of the difficulty. 1t is the opinion
that the vessel will 90 to pieces in less
than two days, and that the next visit
to her will reveal her masts hanging
over the side and her bottom gone. The
Dublin was built in Brunswick, Maine,
in 1853. She is 139 feet long, 80 feet 8
inches beam and % feet hold. There
was no Insurance ON the vessel and
about SIC D ON the cargo.
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