The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-01

while on voyage from Ship island.
Miss, for Fecamp. France, with cargo
of pitch pine logs. A passing vessel set
her on fire about Dec. g, and she was
last reported Dec. u in 49, 06, north. -
20, west, burned away aft and still
burning under deck, with only the fore
mast left standing. She was reported
Is times in all. being in the fairway II
transatlantic steamers
DereIict American schooner Joseph
SOuther Of Boston. sailed from Bruins
wick, Ca, for home port Oct. 2, 1889.
with cargo of lumber. Capsized and
turned bottom up. was discovered by
Red Star tug Argus at noon, Dec. ~.
1889, 50 miles east by north Of Cape
Henry, which tug, assisted by United
States steamer Dispatch, towed her in
to Norfolk, arriving at 6 p m, Dec IS,
1889. The Dispatch discovered the dere-
lict first and intended to blow her up,
but offered to assist Argus If she de-
sired to take her into port, with the re-
suit that derelict was righted at Mo-
folk navy yard and subsequently towed
to Boston, where she arrived jan s.
1890.
Derelict American schooner Lucinda
G. Potter of Greenport, N. Y, sailed
from Boston for Norfolk Dec q, 1880.
Anchored off Sandy Hook at noon Of
the 25th in a heavy gale and snow
storm, parted anchor chain and drifted
out to sea on the 9th. and the next day
a. heavy squat struck the vessel. cap
sizing her and hurting crew into ocean.
Was cruised for and found bottom up
by Red Star tug Interna tional. which
found her at noon, Jan. IS, 1891, taking
her tc Delaware breakwater Jan 81,
where she was righted and towed to
Philadelphia. arriving jan n. 1891, just
10 months after the disaster.
from Nova Scotia to Barbados with
cargo of lumber and Goldfish lost r1d-
der and filled with water. Crew res
cued at great peril by boat from Ger
man steamship Sophie Feb. Is 1895, in
latitude 37s z0' north. longitude Sc so
west. Our fourteenth report puts her
in latitude 45' So north. longitude 25'
90 west, on Aug. IA. 1896. when the Nor
Wegian bark Homestead placed petro-
leun on board of her and set her on fire.
But she has been seen i've times subse-
quently, the last time on Sept. 10, IN
latitude AZ north, longitude 23' west
Setting fire to an abandoned vessel
does not always send her to the bottom.
but, on the contrary, often, IL not usually,
leaves her more a 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 S9s 50, north, longitude
42e In latitude 29s north, longitude 81
west is a 800 ton vessel with rnasts
gone: in latitude 20 north, longitude s.
90 west, a large schooner in the path
Of our coasting vessels. 20 miles north
east by east from Cape May. is another.
with merely its nasts above water
And so on. There are at present an
even dozen vessels, wrecked within a
year, which are cruising as dereiicts in
the paths of steamers and sailing yes
sells, imperiling thousands of lives and
millions of property in crafts and car
goes.
They have been Approximately locat-
ed and are constantly watched II
would not be a difficult matter for the
vesuvius to find some of them at least,
and by sending them TO "Davy Jones
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 GERMODEs