The Republican journal., 1892-09-22
Heavy Weather.
THE $. d. CARLEToN's STORMY pAssAe,
AROUND CAPE HORN

THE $. d. cARLEToN's STORMY PASSAGE
AROUND CAPE HORN.
The American ship S. d. Carleton can
tain Amesbury, arrived from Philadelnhia
yesterday morning 141 days out. Tbisis the
vessel which was supposed to have started
out on the same day that the Shenandoah
left New York. and the Tam O. Sbanter left
Baltimore, for a race to this port twill no
remembered that the Shenandoah and
lam O'Shanter arrived on July IL. each
III days out, both claiming a victory over
lhe Carleton 1t was stated at the time
mat the real race was between the Shen-
andoah and the Carleton, Captains Mnr-
ply and Amesbury having friendly wager
on the result. For several DAYS after the
Shenandoah arrival she carried a racino
pennant at her miZzen, presumably in
token of victory over the Carleton but
Mate Hatch of the latter vessel now saws
the idea of a race never entered into tho
mind OF any one on board She inst loo
ged along in the regular way.
Captain Amesbury in his report saws
that he never experienced such heavy
weather in his life as on the Atlantic side
OF the Horn on this trip. On Nav ". in
latltrde "A deg. 80 min. south, and lonpi-
tllue u deg. west, he had a succession Of
leavy West-southwest gales for four davs.
ne snip was driven 800 miles to leeward
On June |, i'll latitude 80 dec. south on
the Atlantic, he had a succession of sn1th
southwest gales. On june 3 after sound
ing the main tank he found it leaking and
that he had lost about =, 600 gallons of wa
ter. The ship was 20 days in the vicinity
OF Cape HON with succession of Gales
from the eSt-southwest. On .June IN
Staten Island was passed ON the sixtv-
fourth day out. On April 4. in latitude.
81 deg. north and longitude 10 dec. 30
min. west the ship passed a wrecked
vessel bottom up, painted light red. 1t
was about 200 leet long, and the stern
was out of the water. He believed it to
be the British bark Invertrossachs. On
April ., in latitude :}3 deg. 80 min. north
and longitude 46 deg. 40 min. west. he
sighted wreck dead ahead, only a quar-
ter OF mile from the ship. The wreck
was only about five feet above water. and
had white rail all around The masts
and bowsprit were gone. 1t was appal
entity AN iron vessel of about 600 or 700
tons burden.
First Mate Hatch was on board when a
Call reporter boarded the Carleton in the
stream yesterday, and was quite amused at
IiiN oIolN iiIdI llc ldlitoH lldu been RACING
on the trip out. He also denied that the
Carleton had been racing on tile previous
trip out from port. He said that the Garlic
ton made a fine run down to the River
Platte, getting good northeast and south
east winds. After that the wind got dead
ahead and the weather was OF the worst
kind, but the ship did not part a ropeyarn
on the entire trip. 1t was very different
from her luck on the previous trip out.
when she lost all three topgallant nasts in
a gale off the Horn on February 10, 1891.
On the run up the Pacific side during the
present trip the ship got becalmed between
l. and 20 degrees north, and ONLY made
$50 miles in five days. Mate Hatch at
once disproves the statement that when
the ship arrived yesterday morning she
was leaking badly and all hands at the
pumps. The men were simply cleaning
tile ship, which arrived all sound, with
cargo in good condition. san Francisco
Morning Call, Aug. n