New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-03-11
LIMPING INTO PORT.
vrA1ry AND DELAYED BY TEMPEsTs.

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SHIPS END THEIR VOYAGES
p.ttercd by the storms a feet Of crippled ships
xrued into the harbor yesterday They with
xm,ntl.d steering gear, with rails. ladders am
.s,,ors swept away, and with the marks Of winter
-.o,her upon their decks. They brought reports Of
80 miles, tremendous and cyclones. The
p,,,.h steamer Pcqua experienced the toughest voy
-. which she has ever known. She usually makes
~. Trim from Gibraltar In fifteen sixteen days. She
-. ont this time for twenty three days. Tie Pcqua
,h Gibraltar on February IA with u cargo of lemons
.nd oranges from Mediterranean ports. During the
AZ, fourteen days Of her voyage she met variable
.,d. until she reached the stormy regions. In
,.auude IS and longitude SIS she ran into a terrific
-. from the west northwest The gale had the force
:, a hurricane. Tho Picqua running at full speed,
80 able to make only seventyfo knots day. In
,..h Of ESQ knots On March 4, at D. M. the wind
.Asr.ted. Three hours later n cyclone struck the
.,.pch steamer. The waves moved like waterspouts.
nv rose TO height Of forty feet and went whzSng
,,roueh tho air with 4 spiral motion. They struck
a. ades Of the vessel with the force Of trphammers.
y,o great seas bearded the steamer and went surgng
=. her In q flood which hurled the heavy fore
AAe ladders about nkc bits Of kindiing wood and
- the ventilator tops and the iron ratings clatter
Ne over the decks. The rails knocked from the
award deck, the LIGHTHOUSE stove in and every
ma spoke in the wheel was broken squarely on.
buse wave battered in the wheeouse knocked the two
men At the wheel over and left the big wheel with
dn - smooth that of cartwheel.
Captain Brown, who was standing near the wheel
house. was hurled Violently against tho railing and
bruised from head 10 foot He graspcd the top OF q
ventlator, and the force OF the cyclone swung him
sssht out into the mir. Ills hands were badly lacer-
.d b. the Ranges Of metal the ventilator top to
which he chung. Comesa Bastana, a seaman. was
lady hurt Several Of his ribs were broken and he
S-x~. al 0-Su
Joseph Giuseppe. bruised that he was scarcely
able TO move for the rest OF the VOYAGE. The cap
taips cabin stove In and flooded by water. Thr-
tcn Of the eighteen ventilaors Of the vessel were
mashed and nearly all the tops were carried out to
&C., Tho deck fixtures which trokc adrift were hurled
aninst the after wheelhouse smashing the glass In
every part. The forecastle deck started. and for
time II looked though the matches would be broken
H. TWO Of the lfeboats were smashed.
Tue roqua ran before the gale In q southeasterlS
direction for eleven hours at the rate OF eleven knots
IN hour Captain Brown then ordered the vessel
hove to- and put out sea anchor. He found that
would be folly to exhaust his coal supply with the
prospect Of making little headway The sea anchor
which was thrown out most ingeniolHlv con-
gt-ucted 1t consisted Of three fender bars to which
was fastened heavy plank eighteen feet long. The
anchsr weighted down by five bars dashed to-
esther. For two days the vessel was hove to. Dur
ing the storm. Captain Brown says. there were cleo
tical displays Of all kinds. There were flashes Of
light, and St. Elmos lights lowered over the masts
md At the ends Of the spars
The steamer Mareca, which sailed from Dundee
February 81. made her way for several days through
fields Of ice. She met fair weather until March 2,
whsn, In latitude A. 90 and longitude 47lo. she en-
ceuntersd heavy snowstorm and plunged into sea
Of ice. There were great masses and mounds OF Ice
ameng which the Mareca steered for thirty five miles
before she reached clear water. On March she
dshted an immencs iceberg The Inter part Of the
voyage marked by a series Of gales.
The North German Lloyd steamer Havel was de-
lsyed By an accident to of the valves Of high
pressure cylinder. The Havel hove to for five hours
md westerly gales during her entire voyage.
So long was the steamer Gard"nla delayed BY
.torms and hurricanes on her voyage from Gibraltar
Tor coal. shortly after leaving bermuda she Was
nearly overwhelmed by hurricane. She was badly
ALTERED by the. waves, and her boats were thrown
The steamer Leamin gton reached this pert with part
o. her starbOard rail- carried away ana the enneroOfn
away and two boats were shattered. The Leaning
ton was loaded with sugar. and had come from Per-
Asmouco.
eat hind Of weather. She remained outside Of the
bar Thursday night on account OF the foe cut
According TO his usual custom Captain weiss lss.
master Of the Exeter CITY, and ths bearer o. the n'e
vessel. The tow the four-masted schooner Agnes
Manning The Exeter City. bound from swansea,
picked up the schooner On March 3, near where she
was abandoned on February Sf In latitude 4loo ana
longitude $3.50.
K sunken bark was sighted Wednesday by the
steamer Lampasas. Of the MALLORY line, from calves; l.;
gale and had aterwart drifted of the shoals into
deep water. The hull almost submerged and the
mainmast gone.