Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07
How Some Ships Save Money.

HOW some Sh1pS save money
THE voyage from Sandy Hook to the coral
reefs of Bermuda is undoubtedly the rough
est on the Atlantic. It is the dreadful
Channel trip long drawn out. The course
lies southeast by east, and when the breeze
blows from almost any quarter the vessel
pitches, rolls to the $50 angle and ships big
seas on her weather side with suddenness
and frequency. The Oronoco had a nor
wester all the way down. The wind did
not shift point from start to finish, and
while it helped her along, the pace was
q killing one. Out of the ITO souls aboard,
about 20 to % kept some of the provisions
from spelling. The ship is a stauneh one,
and, as the Captain smilingly remarked,
IAN easy roller" To the landsman the
rolling was rather tiresome. And thus it
came to pass that the first hungry ones fed
were knocked out in the opening round
The return trip was made on the Trini-
dad, sister ship, few feet longer than
the Oronoco. The course lay northwest by
west, and the gale came bowling from the
northeast. Out Of a passenger list of 130,
about 25 weathered the storm after the first
dinner For 48 hours all were forced be-
low by the heavy seas and the lurching,
-
ton of the company was truly pitiful, par
ticularly that of the female portion and the
few children aboard.
All who contemplate a trip to Bermuda
next winter should be prepared for tough
tussIe with the sea. Only one lady was
able to appear at table during the major
portion of the trip down, and three or four
one the daughter of q New York pilot, who
was used to the sea-ate sparingly at every
meal on the return voyage until the west
ern side of the Gulf Stream was reached.
the wind ceased to blow, and the sea set
tied down a bit. The remainder of the
trip was pleasant, and the ghastly sick soon
got their land legs and control of their
sorely-tried stomachs.
So you see how a ship in the Bermuda
trade saves money in the food line.
They cross the Gulf Stream diagonally at
its supposedly widest part 1t takes from
II to IA hours to pass over this mysterious
river of the ocean on this route. No matter
how calm it may be on either side, you will
get shaking up here. Old sailors backed
up this statement, and it is made on their
authority. When the writer crossed it was
nasty weather, and it was undoubtedly
Company, Sir George sommers being Admiral,
was encountered by storms, and the Admiral's
ship was driven to the Bermudas. Sir George
sommers, sitting at the stearne, seeing the ship
desperate Of relefe, looking every minute when
the ship would sinke, hee espied land. which, ac-
eOrding to his, and Captain Newport's opinion,
they judged 1t should be that dreadful coast of the
Bermudes. which Ilandlsl were Of all Nations.
said and supposed to bee inchanted and inhabited
with witches and devills, which grew by reason OF
accustomed monstrous Thunder, storme, and
tempest neere unto those Hands, also for that the
whole coast Is so wonderous dangerous, of Rockies,
that few can spRT,Dac9 them Sst With
The heart of Sir George Sommers Is buried in
beautiful public garden, full Of tropical growths
ut ST. Georges.