The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-03
How the Crew of the
Phelps Jared.
OVERDUE sCHooNER'S LUCK
BARK TEMUCo TO DISCHARGE
AND REPAIR HERE.
The Dauntless Breaks Down at Her
Wharf-Arrival of the Overdue
Ii. P. Grace-The Cey-
Ions Damages.

The long overdue schooner W. S. Phelps
finally made port yesterday. For nearly
two months the crew has been fighting
head winds and Gains. and when the yes
sells anchor was dropped of Meiggs
wharf every man on board heaved a sigh
Of relief. For six weeks not one OF them
had washed his face, and until the
schooner put into Santa Cruz they had
been smoking hops for tobacco and max
ing coffee out of ground split peas. For
eight days they had been without meat.
and their drinking water was foul. The
decks leaked and in the forecastle the
crew had 10 sleep in wet bedclothes and
walk through puddles of water until near
~ all OF them have rheumatis
I'VE left San Pedro for Eureka fifty
one days ago, said the mate YESTERDAY.
Il have been through some tough times
on the Atlantic and in the Arctic, but
such a voyage as the one we had on the
Phelps / never heard the equal OF. The
vessel had been lying a long time in San
Pedro before she was sold by the Mar
shall, and during that time she got very
dirty. She had, previously TO her arrival
in San Pedro, lost her centerboard, so
You see she was not in the best of trim
for voyage Then our water was no
good. but that fact l did not discover
until We were out a sea 1t was SO Of
fensive we could hardly drink it. We
landed at one of the Islands in the Santa
Barbara Channel and got some fresh
water. or do not know what We would
have done.
YOU can imagine what kind of progress
we made without centeTboard and bar
nacles two feet thick on her bottom. We
We're three weeks in rounding Point Sur,
and then We made fair progress. FIRE.
qusntly, however, we would make a run
of twenty-fOur miles during the day and
drift back twice the distance during the
night.
Santa Cruz. and the captain determined
10 run in for supplies. At that time we
were back TO the, foul water, our coffee
had given out and We were using a con-
coction made from split peas We had no
canned meats. sugar or tea, and, worst
OF all. no tobacco, so We had to smoke
I'VE sailed from Santa Cruz as soon as
we got some supplies, and on Tuesday.
February q, we got past Pigeon Point
erly wind, as Captain Alexander of the
Santa Rosa reported US. That night,
however. the wind took a change and the
next morning We had been driven back
forty-twO miles south of Pigeon Point
That was the kind of experience we had
from Santa Cruz TO San Francisco was
one that I hope never to duplicate.
The Phelps will go on the drydock here
and will have a new Centerboard put
in and her decks recalked. after which
she will proceed to Eureka to load lumber
The Chilean bark Temuco which put in
here in distress last Wednesday night.
will probably discharge her cargo and go
on the drydock for repairs She was
bound for Victoria. B. c., but was caught
in a gale on February p and lost her
jibboom. fore topgallant mast, fore top
mast. main royal mast and main top
gallant mast Besides TINS. she was very
much strained and will require a thor
ough overhauling.
The TemUco was formerly the American
bark independence and was built al Bos-
ton in 1S71. Several years ago she was
sold by c. P. Hemanway of Boston 10
under the Chilean flag. She is 1856 feet
long "a feet inches broad and % feet
inches deep. She has been in the nj
trate trade ever since her purchase by
Mr.. Peede.
The Union Transportation Company of
Stockton is having a run of hard luck
It's last steamer broke down yesterday
morning and until repairs can be made
the Company'S freight and passengers
will have to be carried on the opposition
steamers. Last Tuesday night the Cap
tain Weber broke her shaft when be-
tween the Brothers and Pinole Point
Her passengers were taken to Stockton
on the opposition steamer Mary CARAT
to San Francisco. Yesterday the Daunt-
less arrived from Stockton. and when
docking at Clay street wharf her shaft
broke so both steamers are helpless. It
will take about month to repair the
vessels. and in the meantime the steam
ers of the California Navigation and I'm
prOvement Company Will carry all the
freight and passengers.
The surveyors went over the bark Cey
lon Yesterday and inspected the damage
she received while in collision with the
British ship Talus. The captain of the
Ceylon asserts that the Talus drifted