New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-07-25

the steamship Innerly Of the watts Steaihs"'p
COMPANY of London. He had gone 10 New
York when a Tribune reporter boarded the YES
sci in the Erie Basin. AS well as couio ne
learned from the crew who brought the DARK
here from the Danish island OF ST. Thomas' IL
the West Indies the tale OF her wreck ana
abandonment is az follows
The iron bark Janet Court was Launched at
Glasgow in 1865; she had steel lower masts AT
least and some steel yards as one OF them sui
lies upon the deck on the starboard side. LEST
wear she loaded with nitrate OF SODA consigheo
70 Hemmingway & Brown. Cedar-st, New
York. Her register tonnage is 'J6 so that she
has probably 1000 tons OF this valuable mer-
chardise on board. The vessel Is SAID 10 nave
sighted Sandy Hook early in March, when she
uas caught in the severe gales then prevailing
ond blown out TO SEA Finally squall snapped
of her stout steel majts as il they were pipe
stems and the dismasted hull was at the mercy
of tho vovns Fer two three days she drlfted
around when Harrison Line steamer OF Liver
pool bound probably from New-Orleans 10 lhV-
erpool. was hailed and took off the crew
A connie of DAYS later the Innerly came along
betxeen Uatteras and Bermuda ana plcKeo up
the abandoned bark. Strange 10 say, theic a.,
NOT q drop OF water In the well, ana Tue nun
is as tight to-day as when she ie,. ,n rar %
twenty-eight years ago. Before the apahoon
mont OF the bark an attempt was maze 10 ne,
her on fire In the after hatch. but 1t failed had
the nitrate Of soda caught nre ,ile nu. tr Tho
have been blown TO atoms. Fortunat"i; i
Tnnerly and her captain and crew, II diu noun .
OF the sort Hawsers were passed on poaiu .;l,u
Captain Kinney and crew 1o ,n e. Tbomas'
of the derelict and she was toWed 10 ct' ino''
Her owners turned the vessel over 10 the Nd
tional Board OF Underwriters. VINO sT't ' dT u
one Of their inspectors, Captain C1mem har 70
ScwYork. They left here on July D. towing
a bark TO Philadelphia, and gong thei.ce ~ ,;. t
Thomas laden with coal They left the 'si' n
island on July II. at 10 O'Clock p III, anu 80 q,
r,rad bera AT /, o'clock Yesterday morning, max
ing the run IN less than ten days, ,,
The vessels hull is practically uninJureu oe,oI
tho dock The bulwarks are. OF course, sihasheu
h'' 10 fau OF the spars especially on the port
bow and on both quarters Inc oua's "a asSad
lev and everything else movapie were wa,
away. except tie water tank anu anu nv boathook
coon 4 spar not much larger than d poa'n y
st,cks no above the forecastle. ana serneu W
carry signal Of distress forward "n''e '"''
jackstaff remains intact an. ss., ~ tho
II is o rema rkable fact that IeSsei vi ~
age of the Janet Court should nave pasSsu
through such an experience WITHOUT 'ua,ne ~
a drop of water. She is a rich ma ioI III, ~
nerlv's owners and crew. The null atone nu i,'
r.re we'll built in those days-will propapiy
hiring $1,000 at auction for a c"ai pa'S", a.
the vessel is too old to rent as saii,ns Nrsa''
The 1000 tons Of nitrate Is va'uuu,e 800
III
stand a good chance of recovering w per oe"'
of ship and cargo. ,,.ua uhor
Tho sharks at St Themes went wlid Wheh
.bov found that the Janet Court wouIo no. pe
consigned to their tender mercies ana ,hes ne.
the wreckers OF bermuda all TO pieces iher
rage was inteneiHed when they FOUND that 'he
Morse would not even coal there. SolIie u.
the,, had their innings. however. as everything
movable was stolen of the ship that couid oe
taken No damage whatever was zone ''''o Nv
'ont nv thieves The after-cabin, with It's
mirrors and gliding. is intact so Is the cap cap
,otr.s cabin where the tetale compass sui
suings above his bed but all the furniture ana
fittings are gone and yesterday even the 'e"
remaining behaving pins disappeared
T, &C. extremely fortunate that the Janet Court
,ras n,cked up so soon as she was most dan
arors derelict Her stanch hull would propa.
Siy noat for months and no ship aioat "0u,u
i've after striking the heavy hull bow on rms
toc. was what probably led her captain To Ere
ber before abandoning the snip. as sne was
dreadful menace to go roaming arouno IN .ne
a,ars NJ the Gulf Stream and the North Az
,antic Ocean All the same II seems queer tnat
the crew should be in such hurry 20 apona 10
smcb a perfectly watcrtight hull as mat OF inc
Janet Court has proved itself to be-