The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-17
A WoNDRoUs SEA sToaY.
One BLOW Sweeps a Sailor From His
Ship, Another Brings Him Back.

One BLOW Sweeps a Sailor From His
Ship, Another Brings Him Back.
From the Netp York Tribune
After terrific combat with winds aud
waves the British steamship British Prince
came into port yesterday with the story Of
rescue more startling than anything Clark
Russell ever dared to write. The British
Prince came from Mediterranean ports. As
soon as she got outside the straits Of Glbral-
tar she encountered the fierce gales which
have been recently making such havoc on
the North Atlantic. She is not a large
steamer, and though staunch and well found
she had a hard time of it, the waves break
ing over her decks and pounding her back as
she struggled to advance. Still inch by
inch she struggled on, until her coal began
to give out, and she ran into st. Mlchael's,
in the Azores for "a fresh supply. After
leaving st. Michsel's she met the same
kind of weather as before, and had it up to
Sandy Hook. When Ago miles east bv
south of Sandy Hook the steamer sighted
what Capt. INNS, who commands the Brit
ish Prince, thought was a pilot boat a
heavy south west gale was blowing and
tremendous sea was running. The sup
posed pilot boat was headed south, and had
not a stitch Of canvas up. She was appar-
entity deserted. The pilot commiss oners
say there Is no pilot boat in that region
from New York, and none at sea for which
any fear Is felt. Still Capt. Innis thinks it
was pilot boat.
1t was 3 O'clock in the afternoon when the
supposed pilot boat was sighted. Three
hours later, as the captain was eating mis-
supper, and doing go with considerable diff
Guilty on account Of the pounding and the
rolling Of the ship. and the second officer
was on the bridge, great wave, which the
first officer SAYS was like q cliff, ~ came
over the bows, carrying away everything
before IL. The Swedish boats vain Of the
ship. Charles Lastadius, was on what is
called the fly BRIDGE" a structure extend
ing out in front of the real bridge He saw
the cliff OF water falling on him and grasped
stanchion. Stanchlon and man we're
swept away like leaves before hurricane
The second officer saw the boatswain rise on
the top of a wave close on the starboard
hand. 1t was bright starlight, so the strug-
Cling man could be seen as be was swept
along on the great surglng pillows. and he
was shouting for help.
Thomas Jones is the second officers name,
and Mr.. Jones made one of the greatest
casts Of the kind ever read Of In seafaring
tales. He grabbed life buoy which was
hanging handy on the bridge, and threw it
out into the waves VITA such precision that
iU settled down over the boatswain's head,
just as people at ConAy Island throw rings
over cheap canes in the booths of the
''fskirs" in summer Time Tho man pulled
1t down under bis arms, and though the
water was so intensely cold that it numbed
him, struggled bravely for life. The cap
tain, hearing the cry of imam overheard, "
ran on deck and ordered the ship backed
down toward where the boatswain could be
seen, rising on the top OF the giant waves
in the starlight, and driving to the north
east. Tbs steamer backed down past the
man, trying to get near him, and then a
great wave swept him around the bows to
the front side of the ship. Then he was
swept away into the night and Capt Innis
lost sight OF him.
But the captain heard loud cry from
him, and noting star in the direction from
which the cry came he steere1 by that star
and coon saw him again bobbing like cork
on the foamlng crests of the starlis waves.
The steamer ran toward the struggling man
and then close to him. until be was just
abeam close aboard. A grea5 wave reared
itself with the boatswsin on its crest and
dashed him against the vessels rail. He
grasped it as a drowning man would, and
the wave, receding. left him there. The
man was dazed, as we'll he might be, and
chung so tightly TO the rail that it took i've
OF his shipmates TO losea his hold and carry
him below. Hot water, hot whisky and hot
cloths soon brought him around all right,
and when the British Prince arrived here
yesterday be was none the worse for his re-
msrkable adventure.