The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-01-20
SAVED BY A TUG.
The Hull of the VOlant
lowed to Port.
NO TIDINGS OF HER CREW.
Talk of Training-Ship for California
BoyS-A Sea Cook Instantly
Killed.

The hull of the schooner Volant was towed
in bottom-up by the tug Fearless yesterday.
Captain Dan Haskell of the Fearless re-
ceiyed word last Friday from the captain
of the steamer Willamette Valley to the
effect that on his way here he sighted the
hull of schooner, bottOm-up, supposed to
be that of the Volant about i've miles west
of Point GOrdo.
After receiving the information CAPTAIN
Haskell made preparations to search for
the hull, and at noon on last Saturday he
started.
He headed the Fearless for the spot where
the Willamette Valley had sighted the
hull, and after a short search he found it
about three miles south of z oint Gordo and
about mile off the beach.
As the sea was running high they had a
hard time in getting near the hull, but
nothing daunted Captain Haskell put on
his waterproofs and boarded the wreck.
After three hours hard work, during which
time the sea was breaking heavily over the
hull, the captain succeeded in boring hole
through the keel. through which twenty
two inch hawser was attached.
When this was finished the hardest work
of all came. To tow a 173-ton schooner
bottom ur, and with heavy sea running
work, but the Fearless was master OF the
situation. After a trip of three days, at the
rate Of about two knots an hour, the Fear
less arrived safe in port at noon yesterday
with her hard-earned prize.
The VOlant was a three masted schooner,
built in Eureka In 1888, and was valued at
$4,000. She is I'D feet 8 inches long. %
feet broad and s feet, 9 inches deep. Her
gross tonnage is 172 tons. Her agent in
this city was George Gray.
When the schooner left Eureka on her
fatal trip the following men composed the
crew: A. l.. Peterson, captain; .. Thomp-
son. first mate; j. Larsen, second mate;
George Nash, steward. and John Michel
son, Charles Nelson, Joseph Waters and
George Dixon. seamen. In all probability
the whole crew persisted, as nothing has
been heard of them since.
The hull is lying off the Oceanic dock.
where yesterday afternoon IL was viewed by
crowds of people off Folsom-street pier.
To-day the Fearless will undertake 10
right it.
George Hall, cook employed on the ship
America. lying at the oil works, was in
| stanlly killed yesterday morning by falling
through the hatchway into the hold of the
ship. He had an unbroken fall OF about
| thiry-fye feet, striking squarely on his
| head, fracturng bis skull. The deceased
was native Of Nassau, West Indies. and
So years OF age.
| twenty-ihree days aud fifteen hours from
| Sydney. The trip was without incident,
| the passage having been smOo TN all the
| way. she brought up twenty-siX cabin and
| forty-One Storage passengers.
An act TO provide for the eSta blishment
and maintenance of a training-shp for the
| instruction of the boys of California in
| nautical matters has been recommended
| by the Chamber of Commerce for passage
| by the legislature The act calls for the
| State of California to appropriate the sum
| of 100000 therefor, aud the authorizing o t
| the Governor 10 procure from the Govern
ment a ship OF suitable size and tonnage for
| the accommodation of go boys
Yesterday the photographic Office. To-
! Gated in tie Merchants Excange, received
! fine standard mercuTial barometer from
| the photographic Office in Washington. 1t
| has already been placed In position, aud is
| protected by a finely finished case.
L. s Lynch. a special Worlds Fair agent,
who came up from Samoa BY the MaripOsa
! yesterday, SAYS the United States steamer
Alliance narrowly escaped being wreck ed
at Apa December IS A sudden squall
! came up about A. NJ. and II was Only
a short time before the steamer had dragged
| her anchors and was humping upon the
! anchors were lost and about eighty fathoms
Of chain. Fortunately at the time Il the
| accident the fires were banked and the
engineers were at their posts. else it would
have been impossible for the steamer to
have escaped so easily. The steamer at
last accounts was at PagO Page Mr..
Lynch reports everything quiet so far as
the native hOStlities are concerned, with no
immediate prospects Of hOstilities.