The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-05-16
THE WRECKED AMARAP(N)RI
MOST uNLUCKY TRAMP SrEanr~
THAT HAS EVER VISITED HERE
Goes Ashore . Total Wreck ~ ~.
China Coa.t-ln Trouble In Eyev,
Fort From Panama to Sests,>
While She Was ON TIL. C~

The British steamer Amarapoora. IN.
most uniucky tramp steamer that eva.
visited SEATTLE. - now n total wrect -
the shan Tung peninsula. China tn.
tate or her crew is unknown. The nevs
OK the wreck has just reached this eifv
ana water 'front.' men are saying II tola
you so. The Anaranoora struck ~
Pacific coast about two years arn srs
had trouble OF one kind or another at sr-
cry port from Panama to Seattle. Sal.
tie water 'front.' specialists nave always IL.
clared that she would come TO grief ara
now their predictions have been more .han
verified.
The Amarapoora's last voyage stsrtsa
from Puget sound. She loaded lumbse
Tor Tientsin. China, last October. She
was held several weeks on libeis sworn
out by members OF her crew for Wages
due, but finally got away. The uniuckv
tramp was next heard from at Yokohama.
into which port Capt. Cameron put b.
last November In distress. as usual. Thar
was the beginning OF the end. Thinex
went from bad 10 worse. Repairs wers
made but the underwriters refused to wiva
her certificate OF seaworthinesS Th:s
was on January 10 last. Finally her car.
go OF Washington lumber was taken out
and extensive repairs made 10 her hun
Another survey was held and her boi,er1
being made the employees of the engineerss
department were continually fighting.
Several cases In the British admiralty
court resulted.
1t was not known here that the Amara.
poora had left Yokohama She was st;fl
In port when the steamer City OF Pekine
sailed on April 10. 1t Is presumed thai
the surveyors gave her the necessary certs-
ficate of seaworthiness and that she mua
f.n.r h
II is believed that she was caught In
typhoon In the Yellow sea and driven On
the rocky Shan Tung shore.
When the Amarapoora came 10 the coaot
two years ago her voyage from Panama
to Seattle was a series of troubles. Capt
Cameron first got into difficulty in the
port OF San Juan de Guatemala over his
cargo OF coal. In Mexico the customs au-
thorities almost seized the steamer for
the violation of some customs regulation
On two occasions the steamer was seized
in Mexico by the crew libeIing her for
wages. On reaching Seattle she was again
in trouble. Suit was commenced before
Judge Hanford for supplies furnished the
steamer and she was in the hands OF the
United States marshal of this district for
several weeks before money was sent for
her release. At Tacoma. the same trouble
was met with. Capt. Cameron could NOT
make connection with his funds. She was
sent down to San Francisco with coal
cargo and was detained for some time on
account of big Judgment secured against
her. The vessel several times narrowly e.
capped going ashore on her trips up and
down the coast. Finally she took on her
lumber cargo and sailed out OF the straits
on the voyage that was to be her last
The Amarapoora was built at Gresnock.
England. in 1874. and was owned by J. w.
Adamson. She was $50 feet in length. Is
feet 3 inches beam and u feet deep. She
was 1919 tons net burden. From the start
she has been an unfortunate ship and her
end is just as local water front FOUNDERS
have predicted time and again.