The San Francisco call., 1899-02-09
ONE MYSTERY
OF THE DEEP
CLEARED UP
Nomad Capsized and
All Perished.
CAPTAINS DAUGHTER LOST
MADE A TRIP WITH HER
FATHER FOR HER HEALTH.
December, '97, the Vessel Left China
for This Coast and Drifted
Ashore Bottom Side Up on
Hawaii Last Month.
CAPTAINS DAUGHTER LOST
MADE A TRIP WITH HER
FATHER FOR HER HEALTH.

The fate OF the missing schooner No
mad has at last been solved, and another
mystery of the sea cleared up. All that
was left of the vessel washed ashore on
She island Of Hawaii last month and con-
viction win now be borne in on a widowed
and childless woman, who has persisted in
hoping against hope for nearly a year.
Mrs. McAllap of this city had her hus-
band, TWO sons and daughter aboard the
schooner and all OF them perished in the
wreck.
The Nomad was built by Hall Bros. Of
San Francisco at Port Blakeley, and was
launched in August, 1897. She was rigged
as four-masted schooner and her ton
mage was ASS net. She was 16S feet 4
inches long, 81 feet inches beam and Z
feet inches deep, and as handsome
craft as ever sailed out of Puget Sound.
= She was loaded with lumber and early
IN September sailed for China in COM
mand of Captain John W. McAlIep. The
captains daughter, Miss Helen McAllep,
had been ailing for some time and it was
decided that she should make the trip
with her father. Mrs. McAllep disliked to
part with her daughter, but the welfare
OF the child outweighed the mother love.
With Captain McAllep also went his two
sons, Weston c. McAllep, who shipped s
man. The entire family, with the excep-
ton of the mother was therefore aboard
the Nomad when she capsized.
The other members of the schooner
crew were: c. W. Soderstrum, mate;
Charles Looman, second mate; Fred
Holmes, cook, r. Visentini, r. Thompson
and q. Olsen, seamen, and L. Z. Blood
good cabin boy.
The Nomad made a quick run across the
Pacific and from Shanghai Captain Nc
Allep wrote, saying he was going 10 bring
The vessel home in ballast. On December
Z, 1887. the schooner sailed and year ago,
this month, when nothing had been heard
from her. The Call exclusively pointed
out the fact that she was overdue and at
sci This picture was worked up by Mr..
Coulter from the plans in Hall Bros.
once, and is the only one OF the Nomad in
In June. 1928. when the schooner was
given up for lost, the hull bottom up was
supposed 10 have been seen off Coos Bay,
On June %, in latitude 43.15 north, longi-'
tude 1880 west, Captain Christensen of
the schooner Eliza Miller sighted a large
vessel bottom up. From the description
he furnished Hall Bros, the builders were
satisfied the wreck was that Of the No
mad, but nothing was known for certain
Until the hull went ashore on the Island
OF Hawaii.
.. Ship captains think that when making
his run to the Sound from Shanghai Cap
tain McAllep followed the great circle:
This would bring him off the coast of
Alaska. when the storms. of January and
February were doing so much damage to
shipping. The schooner being lightly bal
lasted turned turtle in a squall and all
hands perished.
There is in use in the harbor Of Homo
zulu at the present time a buoy which
went adrift al Coos Bay, was carried
south by the current and went ashore on
the Island of Hawaii very close TO where
the wreck of the NOmad now lies.
The inter-island steamer Nauna Loa
brought the news of the wreck to Homo
lulu a few hours before the sailing OF the
Moana. A body washed ashore from the
wreck of the schooner. it is supposed
TO have been one OF the crew who was
pinned in his berth when the schooner
capsized, and was held there until the
shock OF the hull striking the rocks re-
leased the body. The head and feet
were exposed and had been eaten off by
sharks. so there was nothing by which
70. identify the remains. And thus is an
other mystery Of the ocean in measure