The San Francisco call., 1896-05-13

In perfect keeping with the prettiness allow
and aloft is the splendid appearance along
her decks. The inside of the bulwarks,
the bulkheads and houses are painted
white with panels of light green-a blend
ing of colors so delicate that one torgets
that this is not pleasure yacht instead
of common carrier of coal and general
merchandise.
The trimmings of the rails are wood,
rich and ornamental. There is as much
brass aboard as on q man-of-war, and IT
CLEANS with the polish of gold.
How this magnificent craft can be kept
in such a condition almost passes the
understanding, but one of the officers
she looks just the same. She is com.
manded by Captain Edwin Passeful, and
her officers are: First Mate John Roach.
Second Mate Alex Maxwell, and Boat
swain McGeorge. From her beautiful
figure-head of female form to the grace
full center she measures 2S5 linear feet and
has beam OF 46 feet. She registers 1888
tons, but her carrying capacity is 1000
tons. Her rig is four-master, the after
most or jiggermast being bark-rigged.
She carries three coursers, six topsails,
six top-gallant sails, three royals, besides
mum berless fore and aft sails, making a
wide spread of canvas, and is manned by
twenty Seameu anu SIX apprentice ooyS.
During former passage to this port
while off the Horn in gale the springing
of the vessel on the awful seas shifted the
cargo. The great ship went down on her
bcam-ends and hung in that perilous posi-
ton with the masts almost level with the
surface of the water. At times when the
great pillows passed under her and swept
TO leeward the royal trucks would be
drenched. With the deck almost perpen-
dicular it was impossible to get fore or aft
except by crawling along under the upper
rail-
The lower side was so deeply submerged
in the sea that the crew could not get TO
the lee braces, consequently the yards
could not be swung for the purpose of
helping the ship around on the other
tack.
In deplorable case like this, the only
eQpedient is to cut away the weather rig
ging and let the masts, burdeued with the
weight of sail and yard, snap off and fall
to leeward, but the captain would not sac
rifice his great steel sticks. He sent the
crew into the bold, where the cargo OF
coal was lying in the under bilge. Down
in that dark place, with the hull swaying
and springing, rising and falling on the
wild Cape Horn waves, they made tempo
rary bins with the planking found in the
hold.
Then these strong British sailors
began the tremendous labor OF shoveling
and carrying hundreds of tons of coal up
into those rude bunkers until the weight
brought to bear on that aide of the hull
began to lift her little toward an even
keel
When they could get at the drowned
braces and get yard with little rag of
sail to act TO the wind they wore ship,
which brought her around so the wind
would help raise her. This brought the
deck with its incline to the running sea
and the waves, having broken in the
matches, began to fill the hold. Here was
another danger, for short tima OF this
would sink the ship.
Fortunately enough coal had been car
ried up into the bins to give the vessel q
slight lift in that direction, and the masts
and yards being raised little from the
water, the wind blowing under them was
helping her up as much as it could. A
number of barrels of cargo on the "be-
tween decks" had rolled down on the
lower bilge and by great labor were rolled
up into place. This helped matters along
and presently harder gust than usual OF
the gale lifted the masts into the air and
the grand ship, after fortyeight hours
lying PROSTATE, arose triumphant over the
stormy sea.
Through all those two awful days and
nights, while almost submerged, she never
| lost spar a sail, nor even a Delaying pin
from the rail. She warred for weeks with
that tempest, but literally wore out the
gale and came splendidly into port look
ing as natty and vachtish as when sht
came off the ways.