Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-06-16
A SHIP
That Rose From the Sea.
A SAILORS YARN.

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"You landlubbers write narrowing
tales of the ships that sink in the sea.
But did you never hear of a sunken
ship that came back from Davy Jones
locker2' said one of the veteran sea
dogs at the Sailors Snug Harbor, at
Staten Island, near New York, to a Wis
itor. 81 saw one come back" he went
on in lower Tone
II have seen ships go down. I have
been in many wrecks and have seen my
full share of all the strange sights Of
the sea, but no other sight ever made
my blood run so cold nor my heart sink
so low as the sight Of a great ship ris-
ing to the surface through 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 it was,
with cargo of hides and coffee, and
long spell of storms and contrary winds
drove us far ont 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.
"When the weather cleared finally
and the waves went down, we were on
the edge of the Sargasso sea. The green
surface of that ocean graveyard was
torn and broken by the storm as far as
we could see, and great piles and
patches of torn seaweed were floating
all around us. There came day of
calm and sunshine after two weeks of
storm, and all hands were set to work
fixing up a jury rig, with which we
finally reached port. We had bit Of
canvas spread forward and another aft
on poles, just enough to give us steer
ing way while we worked. A current
and light wind from the south helped
a bit, and we were slowly drawing
away from that sea Of grewsome green.
"There was long, heavy under
SWELL waves seeming to come up from
the very bottom as if the storm through
which we had passed had stirred the
ocean to its uttermost depths. Joe Dill,
the first mate and were at work by
the rail on the starboard side forward
at 0 o'clocl. in the morning. WHATS
that? 2 said Joe as he caught my ann
and pointed to disturbance in the
water some 200 yards off or low,
81 looked at the spot inc - Be
yond heap of broken " ''''' The
Sargasso that was driftil: '''l
us there was a big patch e. !'"'
water As looked huge '.;',.r.' Az
peared on the surface, and ile' great
mound of green water ana &I' @'}
weed seemed to rise 80 feet allow g.
surface As this mound of weed Hns
water rolled away to the level of til>
surrounding sea there broke from the
spot where we had seen the bubbles thu
broken masts of what had been full
rugged ship.
"Dill shouted some warning to thu
captain but he did not move out OF nj
tracks. We stood there as ii chained t.
the deck, and saw the hull of big shil
rise out of that sea as slowly and ma
iestically as giant whale undisturbe'
might come to the surface to blow. Sb
came ND on an even keel and rose unit
her upper deck was clear of the waite
and floated there, rolling slowly wit
the even roll Of the sea that had cas-
her up. We could see that the vesse
had foundered in storm. Her mast
were all broken off as if she had bee
caught unprepared in sudden squall
and the spars and rigging were twiste
and piled upon the deck and hangin
6 over the rail as if the crew had bee
! unable to cut them away.
"We could see that the risen ship ha
been long under water Barnacles hun
from her rails and the broken timber
above deck were covered with the dar
green shiny weed that is found only
a a great depth. 1t was easy enough I
oness how she had gone down. Caugl
g in sudden squall, she had strained III
fran. " ork and broken a rent SOM
where below the water line that sci
!. her TO the bottom, probably before tt
crew had time to man boat, But no
=. had she come to the surfaceT
"Offcers and crew of the Mary Cls
:; RON to the starhoard rail and looked
y, the dorcict that had come up from b
J" low with staring eyes and blanche
o. faces No man Of us had ever heard
snch a thing before, and we were
= close to the wreck that there was
H. chance that we were mistaken Ill
ship was not IL derelict that at. ha az, be- e.
- floating with decks awash' She had n
H. becu &C lccaled from our view ny noe
d. inc seu weed, The vessel had risen
the surface in big patch OF clear W
fer and half the crew of the Mary vi
IA had see her cgine up
Fer Il time we We're so startleo
ga vhHt W. Id seen that no man maze
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