The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1886-12-27
MARINE cALAMITrEs.
Whaler Wrecked at Golden Gate with
Terrible Loss Of Life Another Whaler
Burned in the Bay and Man Lost
Holocaust on the Mississippi.

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Terrible Loss Of Life Another Whaler
Burned in the Bay and Man Lost
holocaust on the Mississippi.
The Waling bark Atlantic was wreck
ed in the breakers near the Ocean
House, outside the Golden Gate, at
1880 o'clock on Friday morning, De
cember 18th, and became a total loss.
She was bound out for years voyage,
1rst to the Mexican waters aud then to
the Arctic, to call at Honolulu next
April before proceeding north. Capt
Thomas p. Warren was in command,
and Captain McGregor who was going
to join her and take command at
Honolulu, went out and returned in
the tug Water Witch, that towed the
bark through the Golden Gate. There
was not enough breeze to carry the
vessel over the bar and she got into the
breakers. From ten o'clock till half
past one she was tossed about like
a chip, and at the latter hour broad
side sea sent her on the beach. A
boat was launched and the first mate
and about ten sailors got into 1t, but
the boat was almost instantly capsized
and all on board drowned. Then
another boat with the captain and
seven men pushed Off but this was
swamped in the swell and all hands
had to struggle for life, some of them
reaching solid ground in an exhausted
condition. Thirty men in all were lost,
and eleven saved. The Atlantic was
built at New Bedford, Mass, in 1851,
for Messrs. Hathaway & Luce, and
Passed into the ownership of ]. & r.
w. Wing in 1865. She was a rotten
old hulk, according to reports, which
should not have been permitted to 90
to sea. AT last accounts she was high
up on the beach, her spars all gone and
the hull going to pieces.
STEAM WHALER BURNED.
The steam whaling bark Mary and
Helen took fire while lying at the Pc.
trero about one o'clock on the morning
of the nth. Word did not reach the
city for an hour, and the fire boat Gov
ernor Irwin, followed by the tugs
Water Witch and Atna, went to the
scene at 2:3o, when the bark was en-
veloped in flames aft and amidships
Three slight explosions were followed
by terrific one, and when the smoke
had cleared away Capt. James Miller
Of the tug Ktna, was missing from the
pilot house of his vessel. Feeble erie.
of help were heard and a man We,
seen struggling in the water, but before
aid could be given he was drowned
Captain Miller's son Thomas was cap
tain of the Water Witch and had, ;
moment before the explosion, beer
warned by his father to look out, al
there was powder stored on the burn
ing bark
The coincidence is noted that tn,
vessel that the Mary and Heller
replaced was also called the Mar,
and Helen, was one of the mos
successful whalers that ever wen
into the Arctic, and had brough
down the biggest catch ever recorded
This former Mary and Helen was solC
to the United States Government ant
renamed the Rodgers, and while em
ployed in the search for the lost Jean
nette exploring expedition was burned
at St. Lawrence Bay.
A MISSISSIPPI DISASTER.
The steamer ]. NJ. White was Of
December 18th loading cotton at
landing in Pointe Coupee Parish, no
far from New Orleans, when fir
broke out amidships, just aft, betweeI
the engines 1t happened few mir
utes after ten at night, and the fame
spread so rapidly that in less than fl
teen minutes the boat had burned t
the waters edge. There were fou
kegs Of powder in the magazine, an
when it caught the flames shot upwar
one hundred feet Captain Muse an
all the officers Of the J. M. White wer
saved, but from forty to sixty of tn
passengers and crew lost their lives i
the fire. Among those persisted wa
Captain Bird, Superintendent of tn
Vidalia Raj road. The ]. M. Whit
was built in 1878 at cost of $a25, 900
and was regarded by many as the fine!
and fastest boat that ever ran on tn
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