The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-04
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Eventful Voyage oi the U. S Training
 Shin Enterprise.

Eventful Voyage oi the U. '. Training
 Ship Enterprise.
 Vineyard Haven, Mass, Oct 3-Unlt- ed States training ship Enterprise, l Commander Eaton, from Bermuda.Sep- tember 2s, for Marblehead, anchored here about midnight last night, with all well on board. Both officers and cadets say that the four months cruise has been an enjoyable one through and pleasant weather has been experienced at sea most of the time.
 Last Friday strong northeast wind was experienced, which in four hours developed into a strong gale, and at daylight the ship was off Nantucket south shoal lightship with tremendous sea running. She labored heavily and could make no headway under steam or l sail, Some of her headgear was car ried away and it was decided to turn and come in by way of Gay Head and Vineyard sound. Last night, while en- tering this harbor, the ship grounded on Westchop, where she remained about two hours on sandy bottom, when she was backed off by her own engines, uninjured. Steam tug Mer- cury went to her. but assistance was not needed.
 August 19, when off Madeira island, the ship was sailing under a ten knot breeze in a very heavy sea, with lee- ward boats nearly touching the water, Cadet Proctor Smith of Cambridge, Mass, as thrown overheard by the flap ping of the jib, and had narrow es- cape from drowning. He missed the l first life buoy thrown to him, but suc- ceeded in catching the second, which l was thrown by Commander Eaton. The | lifeboat was then lowered, manned by three cadets and four men, who picked him up after being in the water thirty 1 minutes.
 Commander Eaton states that the l credit for the rescue is due Lieutenant 1 Low for his admirable manner of handling the ship and his success In the hazardous task of lowering the boat as the ship rolled very heavily at the time and it was only by the most skill full management that the boy was res- cued.
 1 Friday morning in gulf stream there was sighted what was taken to be life raft with a signal of distress flying, and having in mind the recent cyclone which had swept over that part of the Atlantic the ships course was changed and steamed up to 1t, expecting to res cue some shipwrecked crew. On near approach, however, it was discovered to be one of the regulation navy targets probably belonging to the North Atlan- tic squadron. which had evidently drift
 ed from its position off the capes of l Delaware.
 l Since leaving Boston Hast June the
 Enterprise has cruised 9,uOU miles and visited Southampton, England; Havre, l Gibraltar, Madeira and Bermuda, and if is stated that the cruise has been re-
 markably successful in every particu- | lar and the 150 men on board are re- turning in better condition than when
 they left. Commander Eaton states I that while the Enterprise was at Ber- muda, two separate squadrons of torpe-
 do boats and torpedo boat destroyers
 arrived there, conveyed by British cruisers from England, thus showing that the country is largely increasing her naval forces of this description on | the North Atlantic sea coast.
 The Enterprise will leave here to-
 morrow morning, weather permitting. for Marblehead, where she will under
 go her inspection before going into winter quarters at Boston.