Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-11-09
HEAVY WEATHER AT SEA.
stormbeaten Transatlantic Vessels COMING
Into Port.


Into Port.
Shipmasters will not forget the month Of
October, 1892. in hurry. Every day ships ar
rive stormbattered aud damaged. Yesterday
the North German steamship Alter and the
steamship Scottish Prince arrived at New York
with more tales of storm and heavy weather
Another ship, the England. considered crack
ship before the modern fiers came is tossing
helplessly somewhere out at sea and has not
been heard from since last Thursday. when the
steamship Montezuma arrived and reported
that she had sighted the England rolling in
the heavy seas off Cape Sable. Ii was belle we'd
that her engines had been disabled since
then her agents here have been waiting anx-
iously for news Of her. and on Monday they
sent out the big ocean tug Edgar F. Lucken-
bach TO look for her. The Luckenbach is the
biggest ocean ting in the New York harbor and
as able as q steamship. She had not been
heard from up TO late last night.
The England was commanded by Capt Heely
one OF the most experienced and able of the
captains employed by the National line. which
owns the ship. She had a crew Of about sixty
men. and there were also on board fourteen
cattlemen, who are on their way back from
England to this country. The steamship Eng
land is one of the old vessels OF the line She
was the first ship 10 enter the emigrant carrying
service between this country and Liverpool.
She was a sister ship of the Erin, which sailed
from port on November "a. 1889, and was never
heard Of again. The England was built in
1865 at Jarrow-on-Tyne, England. She is 3,022
tons register, 43S feet long, AZ feet beam and IS
feet draught
The British steamship Scottish Prince, COM
manded by Capt Dobson, arrived from Medi-
terranean ports last night after most stormy
and dangerous voyage. She was badly dam
asea and had hard time reaching port Since
sailing from st. Michaels on October % she
was almost plaything OF the waves, which
swept over her in deluge after deluge. She got
through the seas somehow, but not as she
started. Red with rust, her decks swept clean
Of cabin matches and ventilators. lifeboats
smashed as though they were eggshells, bull
warks ripped up like paper, she looked Ike
wreck. Everywhere her decks and sides we're
bent and dented. And below she Was soaked
with salt water, for the tons Of water that fell
on her decks flooded her cabins
The North German Lloyd steamship Aller,
with 23l cabin and twenty steerage passengers,
Jared badly, too. One wave struck the bridge
on the port side. and. with a sound Ike a pistol
shot, snapped the rail and splintered it, An
other sea rose suddenly on the starboard QUAR-
ter and lifted its huge back until it struck the
ffeboat hanging the forward starboard
davits. The big, strong meta! craft was dented
as il il were a tin bucket The big vessel
was red with rust and showed signs OF heavy
weather. The Aler brought back two New
York girls, Cecilie Marini and Clementine
their viii when the Aller sailed from New York
on her last east-bound trip. They bad gone
TO see some friends of on the Fulda and had
got aboard Of the Aller by mistake. They did
not tell the captain about il till the chin had
passed Sandy Hook.