The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-06
ANornER snIr AsnoRE.

NeW Aork, Feb, d--The steamship Lamington, Captain Duff, from Valen- eia to New York with q cargo of fruit, is ashore on the Great south Beach, ff-
 teen miles east of Fire Island,
 She went ashore in the fog before s o'clock last night, and all during the night rocked in the storm that was too
 heavy for the lIfe-savers to weather.
 Not until daybreak this morning could the life savers get to the vessel
 although a line had been shot out over
 the vessel soon after she struck last
 night.
 | When the sea abated somewhat and
 the fog got little less dense this morn
 ing Captain Baker and his crew and the crews of the other life-saving sta- tlons began to take off the crew of the
 ship in the brooches buoy.
 | It was reported then that the vessel | lay easy in the sand and was making
 no water.
 The steamship Lamington was built
 by Duncan X Co, of Glasgow in 1881.
 She Is schooner rigged. Her dimensions
 are: Length, 274 feet; breadth, S7 feet,
 and depth, 2S feet. Her gross tonnage
 is 1,SS6. She is built of iron, has double decks, and contains five bulkheads She
 is owned by the S. S. Lamington com pany.
 | The Lamington sailed from Newport,
 England, on November 26, with coal for Venice. She then touched at Mediter-
 ranean ports, and took on a cargo of
 fruit at Valencia, Spain, consigned to
 Simpson, Spencer & Young, in this city,
 whose offices are at 20 Broadway, She passed Gibraltar on January l6.
 The Lamington had on board twenty
 four persons, including the captain, the
 crew and two passengers. The ship
 had fairly good passage throughout,
 with but little storm in the Bay of Bis
 cay. Trouble began when she ran into | the fog yesterday afternoon. | The Lone Hill life saving station re- | ported the wreck this morning, saying | that an ocean steamship had gone
 ashore in the fog and was. stuck fast on | Fire Island, between Blue Point and l Bellport
 Signals of distress had been seen, and l the vessel blew her whistles. She had been blowing her whistles all night and l burning Costigan lights, but owing to | the rough weather none of the life-sav- | ings crews at Lone Hill Patchogue and Blue Point could go to her assist ance, although a line was shot out to l her soon after she struck last night. 1 The ship was discovered to be in dan ger, even before she ran aground. Jed ediah Payne of the Blue Point life say | ing station noticed the steamship com | ing in a northwest course, almost be- l hind him as he was returning from the sun down patrol. On getting in he re- ported the matter to Captain Frank
 Rorke, who quickly dispatched his crew and apparatus to the scene, and also telephoned to the Bellport station, three miles distant, and Lone Hill station,
 seven miles distant, The vessel had
 gone ashore, as had been expected. | Captain Henry Kreamer and his crew | from the Bellport station, and Captain l Sims Baker of the Lone Hill station,
 were soon on hand. The remains of the l brig Harry Orbray, which was wrecked
 at the same spot about four years ago, were lighted as a beacon to the steam | ship, and the life savers threw the haW-
 ser and whip line to the Lamington The crew on board the steamship was unable to make fast the lines, however. The stranded steamship is very near
 the spot where the schooner Place toun- dered on February of last year. Sev- eral sailors were frozen to death in the rigging at that time, while others of the crew were rescued by Captain Baker and his men and taken to the Lone Hill | life saving station.
 | The exact point where the ship lies is | three miles east of the Lone Hill life
 saving station and nearly opposite
 Patchogue Through the mist the life
 savers could see that the vessel was 8 | two-masted steamship, but could not
 make out much more than that from
 the shore, while they were attempting
 to reach her with a line last night. l There was 8 good deal of guessing as
 to the ships identity At first it was
 reported that she was the Majestic of l the White Star line, and then it was
 said that the vessel was the Spree of
 the North German Lloyd company. Af- l ter that it was said that the ship was a Dutch tramp, with black and white
 stripes around her smokestack"
 The cargo of the steamship Laming-
 ton consists of 1900 tons of entrants,
 92S cases of oranges and 200 cases of l onions