Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-03-24
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The Big Ship Shensndoaa So Day. Getting 10
Nex York from liverpool.

INV YoEK. March aS.-The American
four mssted ship Shenandoah, the second
largest sailing vessel siiosi.. reached port
Sunday night, - DAYS out from Liverpool
Capt, Murphy, ht'r commander, is free TO
cont, IS that this is the longest voyage he
ever made bsts,eit Liverpool and this port
Fer weeks, he said. he w,.s backing and tili.
ing around The Irish coast. unable to make
any apprecisble heslsay asaiust the west
eriy gales. Then came a favorable slant OF
wind. but almost before, the sails couLl be
| trimmed Ia ii, ii shifted around to another
quarter AMI the clipper had head seas to
contend With again.
| one day. the captain said, he'made no
progress whatever. The next he tackled
over 40 miles. sut the noon cbsery alton
showed that lie had rli,.ie only two miles 10
the good, or, in other words, tina, he was
only two miles nearer his destination at tina,
hour than he was Vt the previous noon.
] Before these battling winds the vessel zig
Jagged her way across the Atlantic, and
finally founl herself in latitude south OF
the Bermudas. That WAS curious locality
10 b in. itie captain explained. for a vessel
that VAS beunl from Liverpool for New
| \ ord. But ii the weather hai been bad be-
forc, it became simply outrageous, when
the ship endeavorei TO bear up again for
| her port of destination.
| \ cyclone rcyolved across her path, and
when II had passed, procession of water
spouts cane by. There were six of them
III number, and the captain said that he had
all that he could do TO steer clear of his dan
gerous neighbors. He managed 10 keep
| clear of the inverted cataracts, but it was a
very close shave with two of them.
| They must have looked very fine" oh
( served one of his listeners last night.
Yes, they did, said the captain, "when
| they were astern.~
| After the waterspouts came sleet.la,leu
gale, which enameled every bit of spar an
rigging which the vessel carried, and made
her look like a crystal fabric.
| This is the second triangular trip of the
big sailing vessel. She sailed from this
| port last March bound for San Francisco,
and made the voyage in ia days. Soon
after rounding the Horn. the captain said
the British ship kensington swept by him
under a cloud of canvas. As the ships
drew abeam, the crew of the kensington
sprang into the rigging and gave the big
American three cheers.
Just why they thought it necessary To
cheer ship that was being outsailed, the
captain of the Shenandoah did not know.
If they meant it as jeer the American bad
her revenge a short time later. \ heavy
gale came, and under its impetus the mann
moth clipper swept by the British ship AS
if the latter were anchored.
Moreover, the crew of the American no
ticed that some of her yards and sails had
been carried away, bulwarks were gone,
and, to use the captains expression 1.-The
other vessel was making very heavy
weather, while the Shenandoah was surg
ing along as if sailing along over summer
seas. The captain said he did not think it
necessary to then return the cheer which
the kensington had given the Shenandoah
a few hours before.
The big clipper brings cargo of salt
After discharging it she will load up here
for San Francisco.