The morning call., 1893-02-01
AN EVENTFUL TRIP
The New Ship John Ena in
Three Hurricanes.
HER MATE DROPS DEAD.
The Vessel Arrives by Way of the
Cape of Good Hope = Water
Front Thieves Bagged.

A very rough and eventful trip was the
maiden voyage of the new steel four
masted bark John Eua from Barry Docks.
Cardiff, to this port The John Eua flies
the Hawaiian flag, which emblem Is gain
Ing increasing prevalency on the city front
just now.
II was on August IS OF last year that the
John Ena, fresh from the builders and
riggers' hands, put out OF Cardiff. She had
hard luck from the start
On September 10, when the vessel was
only i've degrees north of the line, the
mate, John West, fell dead on the deck.
Death was due to heart disease, and West
found a sailors grave, "a home in the roll
ing deep"
After passing Cape st. John on the fifty
ninth day out the John Ena ran into
heavy gale. and shortened sails to the three
lower topsails. On the following day,
October II. the three lower topsailS and the
foretopmast stRysail were blown away.
The gale moderated in the next tventy-four
hours, and the main lower topsail was bent.
On October 81 a hurricane broke over the
ship, carrying away the reefed foresall and
three reefed staysails.
The sea was running mountains high at
the time. The ship WAS on the starb0ard
tack. and the wind suddenly hauled to the
southwest, throwing her in the trough OF the
sea and giving her heavy list TO port. The
decks were so deeply flooded with water
that it was impossible TO get at the braces TO
wear ship.
Captain Schnauer accordingly concluded
to run before the sea and proceed TO this
port by way Of the Cape Of Good Hope. The
ship's neRvy sails had ali been blown away.
. frh Of Oatohar no VII N oA
again moderated. but the sea was very high.
with heavy hail and snow squalls. More
sail was put on the ship. the decks Of which
were now pretty we'll iced uD.
BY this time one-third OF the crew were
on the sickllst, and the remaining hands had
q hard time, as q succession Of gales pre-
vailed till November 10, several icebergs be-
ing passed in the interval.
The ship was then in latitude A. deg. 40
min. south, and longitude 10 deg. 26 min.
west, when she encountered another heavy
gale from the west-nOrthwest which stove
In her port lifeboat ard the wooden doors
around decks.
On December the coast Of New Zea-
land was sighted, the run from the Cape of
Good Hope having occupied fortyeight
days. In the interval nearly half the crew
had been laid M.
In latitude So south and longitude 153 deg.
deg west, another hurricane caught the ship,
blowing away her last lower main tOpSail,
spintering the foresail and jigger topsai.
snd blowing several other sails out OF the
gaskets.
On the ensuing day the wind again mod
Grated and on January the ship sighted
Pitcairn Island, crossing The line January
Is in longitude 100 west. The run from the
equator 10 this port was made in seventeen
days.
DR.. Lawlor found that the vessel had a
clean bill Of health and that the crew had
ia, vra F-np haf
sickness, which vas plainly due to overwork
and exposure.
The John Ena has been causing the con-
signees and the insurance people some anX-
ieiy and her arrival leaves little doubt that
another overdue ship, the Homestead, is
the craft sighted al sea by the British snip
Goodrich, which arrived some days ago.
The John Ena is a fine steel vessel If 2700
tons. She was built in the early part Of
last year at Port Glasgow by K. Duncan &
Sons. Her length Is 3l2 feet. beam As feet
depth Of hold % fee. She brings over 4OO0
tons Of coal. consigned TO Girvin, Baldwin
& Eyre The San Francisco Shipping Com
Dany Of this city, for which she was built
Is new corporation, and the vessel is named
after John Ena Of Honolulu, large stock
holder.
The barkentIne Quickstep. which left for
Puget Sound yesterday. returned in the
afternoon, the captain finding that some of
the nOn-uniOn hands knew nothing about
sailing vessel.
The tug Fearless went 10 sea yesterday
morning, and as she has about 80 tons of
coal aboard little doubt is entertained that
she IS in search Of the Picking.
A number OF the sealing sehooners, or
mosquitoes as they are popularity called,
came over to this side of the bay this morn
ing from Sausalto. Oakland and other
points, where they have been refitiing. The
new schooner Mascot is expected to sail
thia mQrpinC a a rn a. he II Whf4a
and Matthew Turner. The whaler Alton
has been transformed into a sealing
schooner and will sail in few days
Captain R. j. r. Alden Of Vallejo, who
has just been appointed by the Governor a
Supervisor Of Soiano County. is a member
of the well-known shipping firm of Piper.
Alden 81 Co. Of this city.
The coast defense vessel Monterey was
t0wed TO Mare Island Yesterday morning by
the tugs Rescue and 4Ktna. No special IN
teTest was excited in her, as it was known
she Is not going to sea.
The schooner Oceania Vance went to sea
yesterday morning with non-union crew.
For some time past the bar Dor police have
been on the lookout for waterfront thieves,
whose operations have latterly assumed the
aspect Of organized raids Large quantities
or iron, copper and pieces of machinery / ave
disappeared, but IL was not until Yesterday
that three OF the gang were caught in the
act.
They were hard at work hauling away
quantity OF ptgiron, belonging to Hastings
" Brooks, into the store Of John Living
stone, on Folsom street, between Main and
Spear, bargain having been already struck
between the parties. Officers Matt Maher
and Ii. @. Smith then found that the same
men had also stolen and sold a hydraulic
pump and jack belonging to David Cart
wright, at the corner Of Main and Mission
streets.
The men, who gave their names as Jones
Kane. Alexander Bedrosa and John Dalton.
were booked for grand larceny at the South
Harder station.
The South Harbor police are now looking
for the owners Of piece of five-inch shaft
ing, about two feet long; also a portion of
the crank Of a traction engine.