The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-12-01
SEA TALES OF THE STORM.
,ur DROWNING or TOM BREWSTER.
=" tRLE ENGLISH SEAMAN.

rr,up strathesk Comes Into Port
n.dty Battsred-NorweEian Fruiter Hu-
mr., mad to J~ettison Part of Her Cargo
nh, Strathnirly's Propeller Broken.
r., ,os. A man in a bowling gale at sea does
,,u,lIy disconcert the skipper OF q British
- cant, Frost OF the steel freighter
s,1,tb.sk. which llmped into port yesterday.
".n,psr works q wreck. is not the usual Brit
" ,,ould not have cared how badly we were
,....rsa." he said. III we had brought back
Tom Brewster
pr,w.ter was an English boy Of eighteen.
ID an able seaman. too. who had boon four
"o,,hs with the Strathesk. The skipper told
n.,,.rday how Tom came to lose his life In
ne .torrr on saturday eighty miles or more OF
Care Hsnlopen'
d,y morning for Kings Lynn. England. with q
.oo n, grain. She rau into the gale at mid
.Icb, and hove to in a riot VI towering white
80, BEFORE dawn on Sunday II was blowing
DN,tb hurricane force. and fierce squalls Of hail
VA ,noU contributed to the observation OF the
Icing spoondritt. A great. solid wave tum-
Ma over the bow. flooded thu well forward.
w,.binr water casks. destroying the var
.J.b oil and paint supplies. and carrying
.rav the chain lashings OF the spare anchor.
1t II A. VI. a sea. which the skipper likens
tidal wave, but which doubtless was a
Cumulative wave. rose like a granite wall over
~. MORT bow and tumbled inboard thunder
.,,lr The ship vibrated as II she had run
,r,r n sea quake. First Mate. Younger. the
v.scond mate and a seaman. who was &c the
hhesi were on the bridge. The giant sea
w Fset awav the bridge as II It were a fabric Of
sSrd5oard instead of steel. and the three men
Tsnt tumblinR head over heels TO ieeward;
,h u mate and second mate hurt in a hundred
places. .,d s.xsr,I ~ bis sbtnmatsa
h.d been sent aft to spread tarpaulin over the
cabin sEylight, the glass Of which had been
smashed BY the seas. He was about amid,
shlgs ON Ti its crest yst and he vanished in the gray
sstSom Of snow and gale-torn spray. One Of
hs shipmates saw the wave CATCH him and
shs helm himself and ~manPuvred down the
hast, and life buoys were thrown to leeward.
But the English lad was never seen again.
The skipper found that all his compassee
had SeeH washed away with the wrecking Of
he h chart house, and thereafter he would have
e steer 5y rule aIsa of sh a nj on or M fsaG Ts @opnihe.
made out that he vas in latitude 1925, longitude
rom rom M port. He tried to steer a course about
1ofh by vest. He made land. which he right
" guessed was Barnegat. on Tuesday morn,
in sight, and came SLOWLY, up TO Sandy Hook.
where he anchored on Tuesday. night. His
eargo had shifted. and he had a list Of twelve
degrees TO port. The upper part OF the ship
viii be; rebuilt. She will not be able to leave
mort under four weeks.
naies. got mixed up in the big blov.. Her
cargo Of oranges on the forward deck broke
adrift, and che was forced TO ~lettison ninety
nine barrels to prevent them from damaging
the ship. F.
The British steamship strathairly., from
london. lost a blade OF her propeller in the
tumult. About ffty-five miles southeast OF
Block Island she passed Hen and Chickens
lightshlp heading for the island. near which
she was stationed when the storm sent her
adrift.
her Intern sdiate engine. and carried away
her bridge ladder In the storm.