The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-17

days the terrible seas. assaulted the vessel;
washing the decks, throwing. the braces
and other gear from the pins where 1t was
Delayed and driving the coils through the
ports overheard. The houses and other
fittings about the deck being iron
they could not be wrecked, but the deck
was often flooded to the top of the rails,
and often aloft in the swaying, tauten-
ing and slackening rigging of the
storm beaten ship was the only refuge of
the crew working her through the tempest.
Several of the men were severely injured
by the incessant pounding of the wild,
heavy seas on the decks and once when a
main brace carried away, letting the big
iron yard swing and jump back and forth
in the fury of the gale and the mad spring
of the vessel, the men hesitated to go aloft
under the great spar, fearing it would part
its sings and come down. 1t was fear
full period, as the fall of the yard with its
tons of metal would have mashed the bull
warks or have gone through the deck
planking, causing the ship to fill and
founder. The broken brace was finally Sc
cured and the spar. steadied.
The first blow they encountered stripped
the ship of the mizzen upper and lower
topgallant sails, foresail, fore and maintop
sail and foretopmast staysail. While they
were bending new maintopsail the main
topmast staysai! went cut of the bolt
ropes. In a few days a still heavier gale
completely stripped the ship of every sail
on her. If blew so hard and so long that
the canvas snugly furled on the yards
was whipped out from under the gaskets
and blown away. In all these days and
nights of black, bowling tempest the noble
ship never lost man, boat or spar. She
just bent down to the force of the gale and
plowed through the seas when she could
not go over them.
Finally she escaped from the storm
scourged ATTITUDES and with light breezes
came smoothly up the peaceful parallels to
port.
The Lord Templemore is an. Irish ship
and her house-fag is a white shamrock on
a blue field. She was built at Belfast in
1892 by Harland & Wolff for the Irish
Ship-owners' Company. Her length is 1886
feet, breadth 45 feet, and depth. % feet.
Her tonnage is about 1000 tons register but
her capacity is upward OF 1000 tons. She
is commanded by Captain T. McWilliams;
who was the first officer during:a former
voyage to this port. The officers are: First
mate, J. McCracken; second, r. Mussen;
third, j. 2. Herman. Mrs. McWilliams
her daughter and sister are passengers on.
the vessel. -
The ship lManydown, which arrived
Thursday from Swansea, sailed the day
aIJer the Iemplemore and came In port the.
day before the latter ship. There is no
little conjecture just where the Many
down passed her slower sister, and also
that as the three-master is known to be
much faster traveller why she did not out
sail the other, besieged by storms, couple
of weeks.
The Spreckels tug Alert reported yester-
day that the bark Enoch Talbot, which
left here for the north last Saturday, is be-
Gained about twenty eight miles south of
Point Lobos. When Captain Brokaw of
the tug spoke the bark she was headed in
shore, and, as before her captain refused
tow, preferring to kedge off again. The
Enoch Talbot was caught in close to shore
up the coast few weeks ago and was
taxed $3.50 for tow, and her skipper vows
he will never patronize another tug.
Yesterday papers were filed in the
United States District, Court to have the
sealing schooner Bowhead confscated.
She was seized by the customs officials last
Tuesday, charged with taking seals within
prohibited waters without the necessary
license. Captain Noyes pleaded that he
sailed in 1894 before the licenses were
issued by the Treasury Department, and
that after learning of the issuance OF the
permits he had applied for one, but being
at sea did not receive the paper.