The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-09

According to their captain Five Fathom
Bank lightship bore southwest by
west ttwwenty-nine miles; Here our our
cautiousness by ordering the H
headed southwest, or a full point away
from the bearing given by the other cap
tain. The breeze was very light and
mist hung over the ocean, so nothing could
be seen over two or three miles away. 1t
would not take Ions to run twenty-rhne
miles, so once more we hoped TO be in the
bay before night. i was sent 10 the mast
head to look for the lightship or pilot
boat, but the afternoon watch passed
without a sign of either.
In the second dog watch C TO p. MI
was sent aloft again. BY this time we
had sailed about forty miles since speaking
the schooner, and If their figures we're at
all correct some of the shore lights should
be in sight, but at 8 p. m, after covering
fifty miles on this course, nothing had
been sighted, and we had another night
The ship was hove to after taking sew
eral soundings. Then the captain and the
mate retired TO the cabin to see II they
could locate the ship on the chart. It was
while making my report that nothing was
in sight from the masthead, that heard
the old Man. say: The observations say
she is here, the dead reckoning says she's
ehere, while the soundings say she is in
neither place. and d. II know where she
is" 1t was decided to remain hove to
during the night and at a. m. to run In
due west for the coast and thus find out
where the ship was.
Accordingly this was done and at day
light we were once more under way, max
ing for the coast as rapidly as the light
wind would take us. 1t was still some-
what hazy and nothing but an occasional
schooner in sight About 10 a. m. we fell
in with a three-master, and the Old Man
laid the H alongside and spoke her. The
schooner seemed afraid to have big,
full-rigged ship so close to her and kept
edging away, but we had quite CONVEX
Sation.
She was from Charleston. bound to
Philadelphia, and their reckoning gave
Cape Henry light as bearing west south
west 35 miles. Imagine our surprise to
find the ship nearly down to the capes Of
the Chesapeake. The sailors had a good
laugh at the Old Man behind his back for
being so much out of the way, and they
sprang quickly to the braces to put the
ship about and on her way north again.
Even this close to port our chances were
not good for getting in, as the wind was
ahead and rapidly dying out. At noon 1t
for some days the captain had a good
clear sight at old Sol and was able to
work up his position.
This showed us to be a little further
north than the schooner captains position.
and all we wanted was few hours of fair
wind, but no breeze came, the sea being
like a big mill pond the whole afternoon
AS the sun began to sink into the CLASSY
ocean dark ripple was seen to the south,
which rapidly came nearer. The yards
were squared to catch the first breath OF
the fair wind and we We're soon in mo-
ton again. Slowly but surely, the breeze
increased and at dark we were making
good speed toward the capes.
All through the first night watch we
slipped quietly over the moonlit sea, pro-
PEELED by good eight-knot breeze, and
before midnight had reported from aloft
a light which proved to be Winter Quarter
shcal lightship Our old captain was
no longer lost and for the first time for
over two weeks he felt positive of the
ships position. The watch below turned
out about a. m. without a growl to re-
ceive the pilot, and at $50 a. m. with a
tug alongside we passed in the capes
which we had been hunting for during the
past few days, and con tinued up the river
to Philadelphia, thus bringing our voyage
to a close.