The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-02-01
Name Of the K0lala DGTGliCt
Learned at Last.
LONG AGO POSTED AS MISSING
Thirteen People Lost Schooner
Home From Shanghai.

The derelict discovered off the KO- |
haia coast of Hawaii has been found !
TO be the four masted schooner NOmad. !
This news was brought TO the city yes
terday by the Mauna Loa.
The Nomad's death list is not known, |
but it is quite certain that Capt. Nc !
Allep, his three sons and one daughter |
and a crew of eight men met with a
watery grave. Only one body has been
recovered, and that was washed ashore
nearly two weeks ago.
Just previous to the departure OF the
Mauna Loa from Kailua yesterday
morning Purser NJ. VI. Tuft got into
telephone communication with the
authorities at HilO He was informed
that an investigation of the wreck had
revealed the name of the schooner to
be the Nomad He was also told that
an American flag had been recovered
and that a donkey engine was still
fastened to the wreck. This latter
news, however, was brought to the city
by the Kinau Saturday night.
An investigation of the shipping
records shows that the American
schooner Nomad McAllep master, has
been reported missing for the last ten
months.
The schooner left Shanghai, China,
about fifteen months ago for Puget
Sound. She was without a cargo, car
rying rock as ballast.
There were on board of the schooner
when she left the Chinese waters,
Capt McAllep, his daughter and three
sons and eight men in the crew. None
of the Nomad's human freight has ever
turned up, excepting the headleSS and
fOOtleSs body of man, which was
washed ashore on the Kohaia Coast.
The NOmad was spick' and span
schooner, just off the dry dock, when
Capt. McAllep took command of her III
San Francisco little less than two
years ago. She was of American build
and was owned by Hall Brothers. ship
builders of Port Blakeley. The Nomad
carried four maStS and was in the same
class as the Alice Cooke and Aloha,
which call at this port.
Upon taking command of his ship
Capt. McAllep sailed for the Puget
Sound, where he took on cargo Of
lumber and sailed for Shanghai, reach
ing that port in safety about eighteen
n onths ago. After discharging his car
go, Capt. McAliep took on rock ballast
and set sail for Puget Sound. This was
the last ever heard or seen of the cap
tain or his ship.
Capt. McAllep was formerly in COM
mand of the schooner Corona. running
along the California coast. When he
was given command of the new ship
Nomad, he invited his family to ac-
company him on her maiden trip. The
daughter and three sons consented to
go but Mrs. McAllep remained il San
Francisco She is the only surviving
member of the family
Just when. where and how the No
mad met her fate will probably never
be known. Capt. Campbell of the Inter
Island Steamship Company, believes
that the Nomad was wrecked off the
northern American coast nine OF ten
months ago. About that time a
wrecked schooner was seen in that To-
cality, bottom side up, which was said
to be about the dimensions of the No
mad.
1t is Capt Campben's opinion that
the wreck has been drifting toward
Hawaii since it's first discovery, and
that it was finally held fast by the
rocks off the Kohala coast. Can't.
Campbell spoke of the drifting of a
buoy from the Puget Sound waters to
Kauai several years ago. This buoy
was brought to Honolulu and is now in
use.
After reading Mr. Charles J. Falk's
interview in this mornings Adyertis-
er," said Capt. Campbell lin which he
stated that the wreck was some other
schooner than the Emma Claudina for
the reason that a donkey engine was
fastened to the ruins, | became salts
fed that the mystery would be cleared
up by finding that the ruins were those
OF the schooner NOmad. Consequently
/ was not surprised when the Mauna
Loa brought the news this afternoon.
Capt. Campbell had lodged his coniec- |
ture before the news arrived
The NOmad has never been in this
port. Capt. McAllep has never been in |
Hawaii. He is known to several Of the
shippers now in port. They all speak |
in highest terms of the missing cap
tain, and state that he was a good sea- |
man with many years OF experience.
Mrs. NIcAllep is now in San Fran |
cisco. One skipper said yesterday thai
she has never given up hope of her |
family returning to her. although she |
has feared the worst. The news of the |
NOmad'S discovery Off the KChaIa |
coast will be extremely painful to her. |
The body that was washed ashore. is |
Sa}!..Ied to have been pinioned in one
Of Jhe"ssss.hs on the vessel. The head |
and feet ftSss ,9een exposed evidently |
and have been eate~>S by sharks.
The sad fate of the Nznai- and her
clears up to some ~>.~ee |
one more Of The many mysteries of ~
sea.