The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-19
NOT 4 PROBABLE STORY.
Z Thrilling Yarn OF the Wreck OF TIE
Yacht Cythera of Savannah

( Z Thrilling Yarn OF the Wreck OF TIE
Yacht Cytbera of Savannah
A sensational story Of the less of the
yscht Cytbe-s, which left New York early
4 last March for the West Indies, comss from
Boston. The story is that Of John
Fe1ton, the mate Of the bark Sam
uel Stone, which, il is STATED. left
Savannah March 10, for Australia and
describes the wreck of this port Of a yacht,
the description OF which corresponds TO the
Cythera.
The story Of Fenton is that the bark
Stone, On leaving this port March 10,
ran into ban weather, and a. noon Oh the
day Of her departure she sighted a w1its
olf pleasure yacht, yawl rugged, driving
Leiore TIE storm with a part CT her J.b up
An hour later the yacht was again sen. this
time bottom up. Shortly afterrard q
Swedish sailor was found adrift AId picked
up. He belonged TO the yacht, but, as be
spoke no English, could give no information
concerning her. He was subsequently, trans
ferred 20 g Norwegian bark.
Fenton goes On with graphic account of
the storm which prevailed On Marca 10 and
q the rescus Of The Swedish seaman. The
story IS from letter purporting 70 have
been written by Fenton and mailed in Auck-
land, New Zealand, July (, less than four
months after tbs bark 10 reported 10 have
sailed from this port
careful examination of the list Of
United States merchant vessels fails to
find any such bark as the
sailed from this port last year for Australia
or anywhere else. The last vessel which
sailed from here for Australia was the
French barK Fenelon, and that was several
years ago 1t would be impossible
for a sailing vessel to make the
voyage from here to Australia in the
time reported by Mate Fenton. These
facts. combined with the mates faislre to
give the name Of the bark 70 which the sur
vivOr wss transferred, and lis mistake in
the color Of the yacht, the absurd geographi-
cal position In which the two vessels were
said TO have met, theCYthera having sailed
from New York the day before the wreck
is described, ana the fact that the rescued
sailor was unable 10 make known the name
OF his Yacht simply because he could not
speak English, is prima facie evidence, ship
ping men say, that the story is nothing but
a canard.
The story Of the wreck and the rescue as
told by Fenton is as follows:
About noon On March 10 we sighted a white
yacht. yswl-rigse5. driving before the boiling
frotn- With part Of Der lib up. She did not
look sixty feet long. and the way she tore along
over the smooth water was caution. We were
amazed a. SEEING pleasure craft out in such
weather, and Captain Perkins said she had no
ca&2ce 70 ride il out when the sea got up. Half
an hour after the first gust the Stone was
plugging and laying along IN a caldron Of furI-
Jus water. and the seas seemed to reach 20 her
toTs. and sometimes they tumbled over her
forecasile, seething deluge.
Well i finally moderated and the black clouds
parted little 70 leeward and there was toe
yacht On Der beam ends a mile 70 leewarJ. with
her copper shining as she rose like a log on the
shoulder Of some towering sea- and then sunk
cut OF ight among the waterF hills.
We could Sc no life upon the hull, and as it
vas awash and upon the verge Of sinking. we
did not stop and try and give assistance. We
had gone but little distance when we sighted
man adrift on hatch right under our bows
By some act Of providence the fellow made a
grab al the nartingalss az a big sea threw him
up 70 within reach Of it, and hung on for dear
life till we got him on board, aud then he tainted
and was unconscious Tor several hours When
he came to, 70 our astonishrnent we could not
talk u the CHAP because he, being Swede
couldn't understand word Of our
language. He was dressed in a canvas suia
such as IS the style aboard q gentleman's yacht
and from the shape and wood Of the hatch he
had clgng 70, we knew he was from the foun-
de-s4 yayl she had gone down with all aboard
except tA-s Swsde, and re could get no infor-
ras.i0D from him He had lost his cap and
his boat. 50 we worked around for awhile.
and. seeing nothing Of the other unfcrtunates,
Ee headed on our course. and. afher touching
al various ports, reached this latitude We
spoke an outward hound ship, and got some
papers from her. Capt. Perkins was sick at the
time, and 50 he did not report the wreck Of tho
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