The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-09
RESCUED HER LOST SPARS.
now STEEL WIRE RIGGING STOOD
BY THE MAY FLINT.

u.sL n,.mnntlcd by n Furious Gale,
Found All the Missing sphrn Dn"h'"N
Aionr,,da when the wind subsided-'hree
Days Later They Were In 'I"re As"'"
The big fourmasted American BARK May
Flint. originally the British steamship fers.""
Monarch, got here yesterday win a yarn 'h''
will mako the %pessimistic barnacles VINO swear
BY hemp and manila take q roet IN 'nclr ~
stsel wire rigging Is the proper thing nowadays,
"a 1, had not been for that tho Flint wouldn't
have looked half as graceful as she did when
,he came IN the bay in tow OF two tugs and
.rchored of Staplcton last night. She car
,I.d awny A good many spars in q bowling gale
400 uiles west OF the Azores on Sept. &. seven
t.en DAYS after ehc left Philadelphia for Japan
With A cargo OF case oil; but she brought them
all hack again: that is, all but the mizEen top
sail yard.
Cant Nickels OF the Flint scented tho great
h,oy even before his barometer indicated hat
there was dirty weather ahead. All hanus
were sent aloft to shorten canvas, and the bark
was ready for the worst on the mornins OF sept
8. The blast came out Of the northeast and
after scrcechins through the tense. revcrbreant
steel shrouds for twelve hours, shifted to west
southwes and spent its fury from that quarter.
The Flint hove to under bare poles, and II was
while she was thus making an effort to ride out
the gale that she carried away much OF her top
hamper. =.
Skipper Sickels says It was q phenomenal
blow. Trying TO wear ship BY using tarpauln
In the rigging. he said. was out Of the question.
'sThe gale just pried the spars right our of her."
he declared. First the toretop and foretop
gallant went by the board. Then everything
above the main and mizzen topgallant went
over the port side"
The skipper and the mato couldn't do any
" $500. 80 -. LI.. .-l t,.,.u . - 49,.
pounding OF the spars. held fast BY the steal
,igging. on the iron sides OF the bark. The wing
tore the sails from the gaskets. and carried
away almost everything except. the hair on the
heads OF the saiLormen. Tho Flint didn't roll
her spars out. She Is not q roller. The skip
per declares that they were moved out by the
After the sea and wind had subsidized the
under Jury rig. They first hauled . board all the
tuAnt ;sPars. except the miIzen topmas., that
were held by the steel wire rigging. Capt. Sickels
utilized them rs only a Yankee skipper can. He
was three days repairing; He did not feel
certain then that he could make New York,
his home port, where his owners, Flint & Co.,
are. but he decided 10 make an effort in that
direction.
His two passengers. Frank Avery OF Chi.
caSo and Mr.. Pitcher OF Boston. were taken OF
on sept II By the steAm hip Craftsman and
what damaged allow, twenty feet of her port
bulwarks having been carried away. Under
three days she made respectively c3S. S3e. and
a4i Knots, which IS mighty good sailing Tor a
whole ship.
Capt. Sickels told the Captain OF the steam.
ship Craftsman that he probably would make
for Barbados or some other southern port, but
he changed his mind when he found the old
clipper reeling OF the knots Ike a full risged
Eyer. and he t.term!ned TO bring her home.
Fifty miles east OF the Hook on Wednesday he
fell in with the tug Robert Hsddou. one Of a
big teet Of hArsor prtvateers that were search.
ing for him. The Haddon agreed 10 tow the
Flint in IL was TOO large a contract for a
small. high. pressure tug. Her coal gave our,
and she left the big bark OF the Highlands
AID ran to the city TO al up beg bunkrrs.
When she got back 10 the Flint Capt. Sickeis
resu ne his job. The deep-sea skipper knew
that his owners would take care OK him.
They hired the Dal-el tugs Fred b. Dalzeil and
Atwood, which towed the bark in She will
Be repaired hero and will sail again within a
month