The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-22

could not be saved. Captain Meyers and
the crew of five men were taken off by the
lifeboat, and q line gun was left on board.
Word being received in this City the tug
Fearless went to the scene of the wreck
and succeeded in attaching a seven-inch
hawser to the schooner. The great line
parted under the strain of the tugs en-
gines, and she returned to the City for
more hawSers, and the wreck settled
back on the beach. Captain Haskell says
the breakers are pounding hard against
the stranded schooner, and it is doubtful
if she lives till the Fearless returns this
morning.
The Rachel is about eighty-four tons
burden and owned by J. johnson. She is
valued at $4,000 and is not insured.
The eighth interest in four vessels be-
longing TO the estate of the late Captain
John ingalls, was sold yesterday at the
Merchants Exchange at public auction to
Captain Bruce. The schooner William
Renton was knocked down at S1400, the
bark Newsboy at SIPS, the barkentine
Robert Sudden at $685. and the schooner
Golden Shore at $685..
Yesterday the last available wheat ship,
the Lakewood, was chartered at 35 shlll-
ings. June 1 there We're on hand 315, 900
tons of wheat and since that date $4,000
tons have been disposed of, leaving 90, 900
tons on hand, of which about 10000 tons
is the Fair crop. The lakewood makes
month of June.
On the subject of a further supply of
ships wheat-shippers do not anticipate
many arrivals till September and October.
Of course a number will come in during
the Interval and be snapped up by the
charterers, but during the two months
mentioned the great fleet will be here.
The American ship Kenilworth, Captain
]. G. Baker, arrived in New Y ork recently
after an unusually quick passage of 80 days
and II hours from Honolulu. This run
was only beaten by the old clipper Sover-
eign of the Seas, which made the passage
in 1878, loaded with whale oil, in So days
and II hours. The Kenilworth was loaded
with 1898 tons of raw sugar, valued at
$500. 423.
The long-overdue British ship Falls of
Dee which sailed from Newcastle on Tyne
December 6, 1894, came in last night, 1877
days out. The cause of this lengthening-
out of a trip that should not take more
than 140 days was a month of light winds
at the beginning of the voyage. Then in
latitude 80, in the South Atlantic, she en-
countered a succession of hard gales from
the northwest to the west southwest,
which followed her around Cape Horn
into the Pacific to latitude so south.
These continuous storms hung on for
forty-three days, thrusting the vessel back
from her course again ard again. But the
good ship worried through the tempests
without any mishaps, and was enabled to
said into port in splendid trim.
The Falls of Dee is 276 feet long, ii feet
in beam ano 90 feet deep, and was built at
Greenock in 1882. She was chartered be-
fore her arrival at a low rate-27 shillings-
for wheat cargo to Europe by Eppinger
d Co., and if the big four-master had
failed to arrive that firm would have lost
about $4,000, as her charter could not be
duplicated now for less than 35 shillings.
II I,o IL +0r No. 49,,
Lock or her owners to have the ship battle
for months with the stormy seas and have
her come in to lose them 91200. But such
are the chances of trade.