The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-12-13
The Iron Ship Scottish Dale
Picked Up at Sea,
WITH MAsTs AND SAILS GONE.
In Their Desire to Escape the Crew
Was About TO Mutiny.
me Ancient Coal Shin India, Long
Overdue at San Francisco. May Have
Met the lvanhos's FAss-Schsoner
Garcia Lost.

Port Townsend. Dec. I.-After a ter
rtole experience of the Oregon and Wash
ington coast IN a hurricane. the British
snip Scottish Dale. OF Liverpool. Capt
Timothy Mccarthy. from San Francisco.
bound 70 Portland TO load grain for
Europe. arrived in port tonight, partly
dismantled. Her rigging Was a complete
wreck, the sails We're torn into shreis.
the cabin furniture demolished, three or
four seamen incapacitated from duty, ard
the whole ship presented about as forlorn
a condition as can be imaineSl One sea-
man. James Kerr. son of the captain OF
the Scottish Dale. was drowned. The
officers and crew. excepting the steward
and one man. mutinied and attempted To
take the command Of the vessel away
from the captain The latter nearly
Drained one OF the mutineers with his
speaking trumpet and with the assist
ance OF a brace OF revolvers enforced
discipline. While all of this was going
on, a gale OF wind was blowing seventy
miles an hour. the ship was near land and
in an extremely perilous position The
crew were panic stricken and wanted 10
abandon the vessel and let her drift on
rocks
The Scottish Dale sailed from San
Francisco December :. and on the third
DAY out was abreast OF the Columbia
river. when a heavy snowstorIn set in
Twice the ship got inside Of the lightship
when thick weather came on and forced
ner to seek the open sea Once she car
near getting on shore. Thursday and
Friday strong winds turned into sue
cesSion OF heavy gales, and the seas were
running mountain high Friday night
-TnHs
spsrsed with bursting squalls ana car
ried away the crossjack yard and an
hour later the main upper topsail went
over the side. The ship iabored aud
strained heavily all Saturday. Sunday
noon the vessel got into the center of
the storm and the wind died away bur
the seas were much more severe With
out moments warning tho vessel lurch-
ed 10 starboard. ana nearly leo tons of
ballast followed She was so badly listed
that the crew could not crawl along the
decks without laying hold OF stationary
objects, The heavy seas swept the decks
fore and aft The port anchor and 80
tathoms OF chain were dropped over as a
drag TO keep her head TO the wind, and
ali hands began to trim ballast Sunday
night the gale began again. and the
barometer dropped to 2se0 The fore-top-
gallant yard and every stitch of canvas
was carried away. AT daylight Monday
Fort Candy was less than ten miles dis
tant In clearing away the wreckage
the boatswatn and two hands were dis
abled by falling yards.
The crew got dlsheartened and wanted
10 launch the boats and abandon the ship
Captain Mccarthy armed himself with
two revolvers and drove the men forward.
They threatened to refuse TO do their
duty, when down came the fore and up
per topsail yards. which brought all hands
TO their senses. The vessel was headed
toward the Sound, but could not make the
cape, and began TO drift toward the rocks
on Vancouver island The starboard lite
boat was launched and Seaman Kerr aeci-
dentally drowned by catching hold OF a
loose line.
Yesterday afternoon the steamer Bertha.
from Unalaska. came along and asked the
modest sum Of So. 900 to tow her into port
The offer was declined, but she took the
disabled ship in tow and after "a hours
brought her into port When taken in
tow the ship was less than five miles
from shore. with a heavy sea carrying her
nearer certain destruction every hour
The ships hull is uninjured. The Scottish
Dale was built in 1888 al Southampton
and is owned by W. II. Ross Il Co. own
ers of the Scottish line Of Dale ships
The vessel Is worth si25, 600 The damage.
outside OF salvage. viii amount 10 $1,000
She is under charter 10 Meyer, Wilson &
Co. to load grain for Liverpool