Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-12-17
WAVES svsDueo sY OIL.
Many Favorable Reports Reesised IRON Ship
masters.

W AsHfSUfoN. lee III ne uaSd
photographic office continues TO receiv,
favorable reports of the use of oil on occa
sions of high seas. This practice has beer
urged upon mariners by the photographic
officers and record is kept of the different
methods pursued at sea during storms.
Capt. Olsen of the Norwegian bark vii.
helmine writes TO the department: "Sev.
eral times have used oil bags to calm the
sea in rough weather. and alw avs with good
effect. In one storm recently the heavy
southerly gales had caused high and bois-
ferrous sea. Our voyage was from Appa-
lachicola to Belfast, and so we kept before
wind and seas Used bags made of sail
cloth, filled with a kind of animal oil, hung
from the cathead.
Not long after the bag was out the wealth
er side of the deck became dry, while the
seas had washed over it before and did so
again when the oil was used up, SO that il
was not necessary to haul the bag in to see
if it was empty, for it told itself. The ves-
sci was cranky and shipped much water on
the lee side, SO tried the oil there, too, but
W ith no effect l shall be glad to give YOU
more and better information about this AT
some future time, for it is a great thing on
the sea-"
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