The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-02-01
STEAMER GOODWIN
rs PULLED OFF SAFE.
Tugs Sent to Her Rescue Succeed In
Getting Her Out of Danger
out situation.

Special Dispatch to the Post-Intelligencer.
TACOMA. Jan. 31.--The big steamship
Goodwin, which went ashore in the fog
half a mile east Of Browns point at s:01
o'clock this morning. was pulled into deep
water and thereby rescued from her very
perilous position by the tugs Favorite and
Fairfield at 4.30 p. m.
The grounding of the Goodwin caused
more eommotion today In local shipping
circles than has been known since the
sinking of the Inflated Andelana In jan
uary, 1899 Loaded with 5000 tons of cot
ton, -four. etc, for Oriental ports, the
Goodwin pulled out from the Northern
Pacific docks at a m. and was going
straight to sea without stopping. The
fog was unusually heavy. so thick indeed
1t did not entirely clear away from over
the bay all day. Even the proximity OF
the shureOwas unknown until the bow of
the big freighter was pushing its way
through the gravel of the beach. The
engines we're Immediately driven full
steam astern, but without result
A ships boat was lowered and the mate.
with several seamen. dispatched across
the bay to notify Dodwell a. Co. the ships
charterers. The tugs Fairfield and Favor
lite were Immediately sent to render what
assistance they could. The ships an
chers were dropped overheard. astern. and
other measures taken to increase the pos
sibity of her sliding of the beach.
When the steamers agents. Capt Ciiff,
Lloyds surveyor, and her stevedore
Hamilton reached the scene In a launch
they found the bows of the Goodwin rest
ing on the gravelly beach as far back
as the bridge. For about eighty feet from
the shore the beach slopes of at about
twenty-five degrees. The slope ends
there, the water suddenly deepening from
twenty-four feet TO eleven fathoms The
steamer went ashore shortly after high
tide, and 1t was foreseen to be possible
that she might be worked or at nood
tide this afternoon Barges were accord
ingly secured. and the lghtering of the
cargo in the forward part of the vessel
commenced. About a hundred tons were
taken out. Negotiations were commenced
to have the collier Progress, now in port,
assist in hauling the steamer of. In the
meantime the Fairfield and Favorite were
exertng all their power to see-saw the
vessel down to where she would slide on
into deep water. This maneuver proved
successful at 4:90. thereby preventing
probable serious damage when the water
becomes fourteen feet lower at extreme
low tide tonight. The vessel sustained no
serious injury. and will sail some time
tomorrow. without docking.
Pilot Cater, who has been In the SER
vice of the Northern Pacific Steamship
Company for years. takes all the respon-
sfbIlity of the accident upon himself His
only excuse Is that he either lost his bear
inss swift current set him further in
shore than he realized. 1t was Pilot Cat
ter who was directing tha course OF the
Glenosie last April when she coiiidcd with
the City OF Kingston.
The grounding of the Goodwin again
proves the old adage that the more haste,
the less Speed Her sailing date was set
for Thursday. but the rapidity with which
she was loaded by the electric conveyors
used by McCabe & Hamilton made her
ready for sea one day earlier. Had she
even waited five hours longer. until the
fog began 10 lift. there would have been
no trouble.