Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-10

A1ss., Ter Fec2mp, France, with cargo
 CT pitch pine logs. A passing vessel set her on fire about Dec g. and she was last reported Dec. 12 in 4S0 O6' north, ie
 2o west, burned away aft and still burning under deck. with only the fora- mast left standing. She was reported Is times in all. being in the fairway of transatlantic steamers.
 | Derelict American schooner Joseph | soUther of Boston, sailed from Bruns- WICK, Ga, for home port Oct. ?, 1889. with cargo of lumber. Capsized and turned bottom up, was discovered by Red Star tug Argus at noon, Dec. F, 1sss, 3s miles east by north of Capa Henry, which tug, assisted by United states steamer Dispatch, lowed her in- to Norfolk, arriving Dec. Is, 1SS9 Dsrelict American schooner Lucinda G. Potter of Greenport N Y, sailed from Boston for Norfolk Dec. 21 1S90 Anchored off Sandy Hook at noon of the 18th in heavy gale and snow storm parted anchor chain and drifted cut to sea on the 27th, and the next day heavy squall struck the vessel cap sizing her and hurling crew into ocean. Was cruiSed for and found bottom up by Red Star tug International, which found her at noon, Jan. 15, 1891 taking her to Delaware breakwater Jan. IT, Where she was righted and lowed to Philadelphia, arriving Jan. 21, 1891, just l3 months after the disaster.
 British brigantine Hyaline on voyage from Nova Scotia to Barbados with cargo of lumber and codfsh lost rud- der and filled with water. Crew res- eued at great peril by boat from Ger man steamship Sophie Feb. 26, 1s96 in latitude 3l' 40 north, longitude 59o 2O' west. Our fourteenth report puts her in latitude 45' 5S' north, longitude 25' 2o' west, on Aug. 14, 1896, when the Nor weEian bark Homestead placed petro- leum on board of her and set her on fire But she has been seen five times subse- quently, the last time on Sept 10, in latitude A north, longitude 2So west
 Setting fire to an abandoned vessel does not always send her to the bottom, but, on the contrary, often, if not usually leaves her more menace than before. by destroying the masts, spars and all the upper works, while the submerged hulk lies so low in the water as to be difficult of discovery. Half way over the Atlantic, for instance, is the hulk of the new steel bark Nonpareil, which was set on fire by the crew of the ship Knight Templar. She still wallows in the waves right in the track of trans atlantic liners. The Nonpareil was last seen in latitude 39' 5o' north, longitude 42'. In latitude 29' north, longitude 31'
 
 gone; in latitude 2s' north, longitude 65' 2V west, large schooner; in the path or our coaSting vessels, 20 miles north east by east from Cape May, is another, with merely its masts above water
 The very latest accident caused by derelicts was that Of the American liner St. Paul on her homeward voyage to New York, Oct. 21, 1900. Her passen- gers and crew were almost stunned by terrible shock that made the good ship quiver from stem to stern, the starboard propeller was lost, one set of engines was disabled, and if she had been weaker craft she might have gone to the bottom. There are at present an even dozen vessels, wrecked within a year, which are cruising as derelicts in the paths of steamers and sailing ves- millions of property in crafts and car goes.
 They have been approximately local ed and are constantly watched. It would not be difficult matter for the Vesuvius to find some of them at least. locker with a charge of dynamite ease the minds of hundreds of brave tars, who have less fear of the derelicts as such than of their phantom crews on the lookout for companions in their eerie voyagings.
 ALBERT EUSTIS GERMODY.