The Lambertville record., 1899-05-31
A SHIP
That Rose From the Sea.
A SAILORS YARN.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
"You landlubbers write narrowing
tales of the ships that sink in the sea
But did you never hear OF n sunken
ship that came back from Davy Jones
lockerP" said one Of the veteran sea
dogs at tho Sailors Snug Harbor, at
Staten Island. near New York. to Wis.
itor az saw one come back, he went
on in lower tone
81 have seen ships go down. | have
been in many wrecks and have seen my
full share of all tho strange sights of
tho sea, but no other sight ever made
my blood run so cold nor my heart sink
so low as the sight of great ship rIs-
ing TO the surface through a thousand
fathoms of water, with crew of dead
men between her decks. 1t happened
back in the fifties, when | was able sea
man on the Mary Clay, brig trading
to South American ports. We were
coming up from Rio, | think 1t was,
with n cargo Of hides and coffee, and
long spell of storms and contrary winds
drove us far out of our course and off
to the east in the Atlantic. Our main
and top masts had all gone by the board
long before the storms ended
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and n liobt wind from the snnth boInod
n bit and wa wero slowly drawing
awov from tbot se, of greuso,,o Groom
mrbere yvaa . Iong bo,yy nndor
svoIl vovea soom;ng to como ~, fror,
tbe very bottom oa If the storm tbronoh
which we bad nossed Ind stirred Tho
occon IN its pttarnost dentbs loo Diu
tbe fi,s, moto and were at vorL hv
tbe rniI on tbe st.rhoard sida forward
nj 10 o,clock In the mornin0 What's
th,ty' e,id .Joo oa be cangbt n,y or,,
md nointod Ia disturbonco In tha
water soma oOo vorda off onr how
81 looked nj tho snot Indicated pe-
yond beap Of broken weed from the
Sorposso tbnt was drifting along beside
ma there VIVA bip match ~ fairly cIeor
wafer AsI looked hinge buhbies an.
neored ON the surfoce md tLen n yreat
,nound of groen water aud yreonor
weed seemed Ia rise 40 feet above the
surface As this mound of weed and
winter rolled away To the level Of tbe
surrounding sen there broke from the
spot where wa hnd aeen the bubbles tbe
broken masts Of wbat bad been full
ripoed shin
"Dil sbonted some worninv Ia tbe
cantain but he did NOT move ont of his
tracks. We stood there as If chnined Ia
the deck md saw the bull of big sbin
rise ont Of TINT sen ma slowly and ma
iesticallv ma n piont whale undiaurbed
might come TO the surface to blow sbe
came mn on mn even Keel HnI TDHn until
her MINER deck waa clear of the water
and doated there. rolling SLOWLY with
tbo even roll of the sen that Ind cast
her mn We could see that the vessel
bod foundered In n storm Uer m.sta
were all broken off as ~ sbe Ind bean
couobt unnrenared In n sudden aouaII
and tbe anara and ri0oinD yere twiatad
md rilad unon Tho dect md bano;ng
over the raiI ma II tho crew bad been
un.bla Ia cut ,bem ow,v
"Wa corld oao frat ,ha r,san .b,, had
heen long pnder water parnaclea huno
from her raila md the hroken t,mbera
above deck were covered with the DARK
green slimy weed that is found cnly at
II great depth. 1t was easy enough to
guess how she had gone down. Caught
In sudden squall, she had strained her
framework and broken rent some
where below the water line that sent
her to the bottom, probably before the
crew had time to man boat. But how
had she come to the surface2
"Ofiicers and crew OF the Mary Clay
ran to the starboard rail and looked at
the derelict that had come up from be-
low with staring eyes and blanehed
faces NO man CT US had ever heard OF
such thing before. and we were so
close to the wreck that there was no