The morning call., 1893-01-15
BOTTOM SIDE UP.
Wreck of the SChOOper
VOIant.
THE CREW PROBABLY LOST.
She Was Very Likely CapsiZed in the
Christmas Gale and Is Now
Menace to Navigation.

The steamer Costa Rica. which arrived
yesterday, reports having seen the hull Of
the schooner V0lant bottom up few miles
south Of Gorda Rock.
The steam sehooners Silver Spring and
Pasadena we're alongside and seemed to be
trying to make fast a line with the inten-
ton of towing the dereliet
All that could be seen of the vessel was
the keel and two floating masts held to the
bull by some Of the rigging The third
mast was not visible.
The floating null is right In the way Of
steamers and should be blOwnup, as at pres
ent it is a menace to navigation.
The vessel sailed in ballast from San
Pedro December 49, 1892. and was bound
for Eureka TO load lumber. There is no
telling just when she was wrecked, but the
floating masts seem waterlogged and 1t is
very likely she capsized in the Christmas
gale.
What became OF the crew may never be
known. They were very likely drowned at
the time the vessel capsZed, and if they
escaped in boats must have been carried to
sea before the gale. They may have been
picked up. ana IL not must have starved TO
death.
When the boat left Eureka the following
named men composed the crew: a. J..
Peterson, master; .. Thompson, first mate I;
Julius Larsen, second mate; George Nash.
steward; John Nicholson, Charles Nelson,
Joseph Walters and George Dixon, seamen.
The Volant was three-masted schooner,
built by BendiXsen Of Eureka in 1883, and
valued at $4,000 She was 1929 tons gross,
122 feet inches long, % feet broad and s
feet 9 inches deep. George ID. Gray OF this
city was the agent Twelve people held
interests in the schooner. The estate Of
Robert Seares, William Huntoon, Ii.
r liner OF Eureka. j. 0. DinsmOre of
Eureka and Alfred l.. Peterson (the master
of the schooner each owned 0ne-eighth j.
w. Freese of Eureka owned one-twenty-
fourth: Mrs L. Kimball one fOrty-eighth !;
Samuel Bnniheld, L. EllerY Of Eureka, Mrs
". c. Mcnamara, Mrs. NJ. L. Stafford and
William Carson each owned one-sixteenth.
Excepting the captains interest the yes
sci } without insurance. The captain
haJ Il his share since last fall and has
al IS run the schooner on tire. He was
a Agle man, but had relatives in this city.
Since it has become known that the V0-
liant is wrecked the opinion has become
general that the bark Majestic has shared
the same fate. She sailed from Seattle over
a month ago and since then nothing has
been heard of her
The Majestic was over forty years old and
If she got caught in the last terrific south
easter her chances OF escape would be very
slim. She carried a crew of eleven, but the
names OF the following seven only are
known; Q. Lorentzen, captain; II. Ander-
son, first mate; Thomas Leland. George
Sweeney, g. Z. Clark, n. j. Olsen and
Charles Brown, sailors.
Peter Bayne has brought suit to declare
that James McKenna has no interest in q
certain 1000 pounds Of whalebone and $50
pounds of ivory that were sent to Foster g.
Co. of this city for sale.
Bayne was on the schooner Rosario in the
Arctic Ocean last August when that vessel
was seized by the revenue cutter Bear, The
whaIeb0ne 10 question was transferred to
that vessel as the property Of James Nc
Kenna.
A short time afterward Bayne and Nc
Kenna sent a note to Captain Healy of the
Bear asking him to ship the stuff to this
city, which he did, and Foster & Co. sold it
for S473 so, and. deducted S125 30 for COM
mission. Bayne now wants all the money,
as he says McKenna has no interest in the
amount held by Foster 81 Co.
The barkentine Modoc sailed yesterday
afternoon with a nOn-uniOD crew. She was
detained three hours by some men leaving