The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-03-22
SAVED FROM THE SEA.
Second Boat of the Lady Lampson
Picked Up Occupants Arrive at
San Francisco Same Day as
Captaln Peterson

>. II. EXAMINER, MARCH StH'I
Captain Peterson of the wrecked
bark Lady Lampson arrived in San
Francisco VIII his wife by the Aus
tralia on March 9Th, and four hours
later First Mate Muller and the four
men, composing the second boats
crew, fears fJr whose safety have
been entertained over since he dis
aster was rep, rted, sailed in through
the Golden Gate, sound and well,
on the schooner Mirtha w. Tut.
The schooner came from Apia,
Samoa, and picked up the cookie
shell of boat with its wrctched
crew on the morning Of February
18th, after they had been sixteen
days from the wreck. All hands
we're we'll and hearty in spite of their
fortnight and over of hardship and
suffering, and the first questions
they asked were concerning the fate
Of Captain Peterson and the Lamp
sons contingent that took to his
boat. When Mate Muller was in
formed of their safety all hands set
up a joyful Shout.
THOUGHT THEY WERE LOST.
1--WE thought sure they were lost"
said Muller, "for we barely kept
ahoat during half of our 1900 miles
in the yawl." ...'
By Muller's story it will be seen
that he had much better luck than
the Captain, for he was out twelve
days less and was only 100 miles from
Honolulu when the Tuft picked him
up.
1--WE left the wreck in company"
said Muller, land remained close to
the other boat until midnight of the
second day. Then Captain Peterson
and | agreed to make the best of our
way to Honolulu Independently, and
parted company-for good and all
we thought. The first three days
after leaving the Captain we had
fresh, fair winds from the south and
east, and we went along like racer
1t rained some on the second day
after leaving the wreck and we all
got wet through Our biscuit was
in barrel and we managed to keep
it dry by spreading a piece of canvas
over it, and the water we caught III
the boat we used for drinking in
order to save as much as possible.
WEEK OF CALM FOLLOWED BY GALES.
"On the fourth day the wind died
away and for a week we had only
light airs and Gains, and made but
little Roadway. We had wind enough
and to spare after that.
Just before dark, when there was
more than we could stagger under,
we rugged "a drag or sea anchor by
tying the oars, mast and sails to-
gether and towing the bundle with
the boats painter. or course, the
boat drifted faster than the drag
and the drag kept the boats head to
the sea. Not one of us over expect
ed to see the sun rise again, as the
heavy seas broke over the boat and
filled her to the thwarts a dozen
times during the night. We had all
we could do every time to bail the
water out before another big sea
would nearly fill her again.
''By daylight the weather moder-
ated, and we took in the drag and
set the mainsail and stood ON our
course again. There was still nasty
sea running, and several times the
boat nearly preached to, but we
caught her in time or she would
have capsiZed.
"We got breakfast at 8 o'clock anC
then sat down for another long day
!. but were most pleasantly disappoint
+ ed.
"About 1910 o'clock Martin yelled
!, There's sail" The words almost
set us crazy, and at first we coulC
not believe it. We soon caugh
! sight of the speck of canvas, how
ever, and made out that it belonged
> to a schooner that was steering
= course nearly parallel with ours.
y "One of the men snatched tn
! piece of canvas from the top of tn
y bread barrel and began to wave i
and everybody followed suit wit
shirts, coats or anything handy
hopes of attracting the attention {
a. the schooners crew. Soon after sf
e altered her course and in ver
It short time was close to us.
10 Captain Stokkobye ordered h
IS men to hoist our boat on deck, san
J. the cook to make coffee for us. The
@. he turned all hands out to let us
d down in their hunks. We had ha
ID little sleep while in the boat as the
was not room to lie down, and b
sides we were constantly wet to I'll
Ks skin and shivering with cold.
ri GAVE UP THEIR BEDS.
c, "The mate of the vessel took II
is into the cabin and after l had drar
p hot cup of coffee and swallowed
e. glass of brandy | turned into b
Up bunk and took the longest sleep
IL ever had in my life. The othe
or were cared for by the sailors, al
ne Captain Stokkobye and his crew d
or all they could to make US comfort
tn ble
81 1--WE still had a considerable qua
tity of canned meat and fruit in Il
t.. boat when we were picked up, as \
' se We're very careful of our supply al
Va did not use more than we had
| had my sextant, and when | cou
get IA sight of the sun at noon cou
=, tell what latitude we were in, b
- when it came to longitude had
compute our position by dead rec
oning, as | had no chronomet
This of course made it rather ris
laying course, but on inquiring t