The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-12-19
BRAVE FISHERMEN.

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An Incident OF the Recent Storm In the
british Isles-GallaDt Efforts Of the
Crew of the Fishing smack Briton's
Pride to Rescue the Crew ofthe Wrecked
Schooner Enterkin-Succeasful at Last,
But There was Only One Left.
LONDON. Dec. 15.-The list of disas-
tiers to shipping caused by the recent
severe storms which have swept over
the British isles continues to receive
additions almost hourly. To give q
complete list of these maritime casual
ties would be an expensive and prac-
tically useless task, as no American
| craft seems TO have suffered. The only
exception rs far as known to this rule
is in the case of the British schooner
Enterkin, Capt Sinclair. which left
Portland, Ore, April 10. for Hull, from
where she arrived on September 81.
After discharging her cargo and re.
loading with corn she sailed few days
| ago for Brisbane, Queensland, Aus
tralia. During the gale OF Saturday
| night the boat was driven ashore ON
the Galloper sands and will most likely
be a total loss. The Enterkin was
sighted on Sunday morning by the fish
ing smack Briton's Pride. The Briton's
Pride, iu face of a terrible gale blow
ing and though she was frequently
swept from stem to stern. plunging re-
peatedly through heavy green seas
which threatened to engulf her, Tor
hours made q series Of most gal.
liant efforts to reach the doomed
boat in the hope of being sbls
to save some Of her crew. A few of the
latter, the skipper of the Briton's Pride,
afterwards reported, could at first be
seen clinging to the damaged masts and
yards of the ill-fated vessel, but one by
one, they seemed to grow weak and
numb and were swept from their places
of refuge in the rigging and soon disap-
peared beneath the raging seas sweep
ing to leeward of the Enterkin. At
last it seemed to the gallant fishermen
who manned the Briton's Pride that the
last of the Enterkin's crew had been
washed overheard TO his death, and the
little smack was upon the point
of wearing ship for safer
waters, when one of the fish
ermen insisted that he could see a mov-
ing object on the tottering mast of the
wrecked ship. When the skipper of the
Briton's Pride was convinced that this
was an actual fact, he renewed his ef-
forts to bring his small craft under the
lee of the Enterlxin. After another
long and disheartening struggle with
winds and waves, during which the
brave fishermen were time out of num-
Der drenched to the skin until they
could hardly move from cold and ex-
haustion, the Briton's Pride was clev-
erly brought to under the lee of the
stranded vessel, and while huge
waves pounded her until every plank
and beam in her composition worked
as if crushed beneath earthquake
shocks, the fishermen rescued a poor
lad named Lewis, who was found more
than half dead lashed to the rigging of
the Enterkin's mizzen mast. Lewis
was safely landed at Ramsgate by the
sturdy crew of the Briton's Pride. The
lucky apprentice and the brave fisher
men are the lions of the hour about
that part of the coast, and an effort is
to be made to obtain for the gallant
fishermen the medal awarded for saving
life at sea by the Royal Humane
society. public subscription to pre-
sent the fishermen with a suitable tes-
timonial of the public esteem in which
their conduct upon this occasion is held.
is also talked of. No hope is expressed
that any of the thirty missing mem-
hers of the crew of the Enterkin have
been saved. Tugs have been sent out
to look for any survivors who may have
been lucky enough to have caught hold
of some of the wreckage washed
ashore, and who may have succeeded
in clinging to this possible means of
salvation; but, as already stated, little
or no hope is entertained that any more
of the Enterkin's crew are alive.