The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-11-17
CREWS SAVED FROM The SEA.
SUFFERING or A YANKEE TRIO
lon A LITTLE TWO-MASTER.

There Wa tho Captain. the Mate. the Crow
Of One Boy and the Dog. and They
rought II Out - on Tomatoes
and Moiasses-Ceiuc Rcscues -Four More
The two-masted Yankee schooner West
ern Ear. reconstructed from the hulk OF
tho wrecked British fore-and-after A. Glib
son, u drifting. waterlogged and lumber
laden. somewhere In the Gulf Stream, far
esst OF Nantucket. Her skipper. Lewis
stanton, a tall, clean-limbed n modest
~yodngster Of Rockland. Me-; his mate,
william Landry. and Arthur Wiley. the
midshipmite and the bo'sn tight and the
crew Of the little coaster. arrived here yes
to-day aboard the Portuguese steamship
Peninsular from Lisbon. The crew looks
Less than His age, sixteen, and really would
nave been In knickerbockers II he had not
come from seafaring stock, and had not
decided, at the frock age. to become a
roamer Of the frothy main. Besides being
the crew Arthur was the cook Of the Western
Ear.
It IL not a long trip from Calais. Me-, to
New Bedford, Mass IN ordinary reath n,
ooaster IN a tempest. She left Calais on Nov:
I with i6s, 900 feet OF spruce lumber and
shingles and ran into stress the first day
out, when a oomber came aboard and,
etching hn g.. up or a part tno OF 5ns f bi%' as ,SaS =. hi 6im !.
self said, with a fine show OF nautical In
difference, into the lee scuppers, a very
proper place for a Grew TO be knocked.
according to all the formulas. The crew
got up with the help Of the mate and was
surprised and not altogether displeased
that he had a fine wound over his right
eve, which, Il seemed likely, eventually
might develop a beautiful scar.
The gale was right on the lane, n the
Western Ear couldn't buck IL. She reefed
down and stood out TO sea. Niger, the
HACK misunderstanding else dog, was
the only one Of the ships company that
complained. He isn't a water dog. that
is, when water Is smashing aboard at the
voice and howled. But the gallant de-
meanor of the crew had a reassuring effect
on HIN and he finally got his sea legs and
became as good a sea dog as ever trod .
quarter deck.
IL was of Cape Cod that the Western Ear
started Europeward before the blast. On
Sunday, after scudding nearly . day, q
great sea swept over the small ship, tearing
the boat from the stern davits and carry,
Ing away the water casks. The wind
shifted to southwest. and the Western Ear
managed TO shape a course toward the
coast. On Tuesday she was within sight
Of Cape Cod Light. Another frosty north
wester tore down on her and drove her
forward stays. Thereafter she drifted,
helplessly broadside to sea, until the
Peninsular hove In sight on Thursday
morning, about 1872 miles east OF Nantucket.
Capt, j. A. Be,tencourt Of the Peninsular
saw the ensign Of the schooner. union
down, flying in the rigging, and he headed
for her right away. Meanwhile, the crew
and the skipper and mate. not to mention
the dog. hadn't had anything TO drink Tor
four and one-half days and they we're nat
Ill =. a@ 40 .ANNA NM Nrl
and mate and skipper had subsisted on
canned tomatoes, raw, not being able 70
cook them. and the dog had kept. himself
alive on canned salmon, which the crew
couldn't eat. To quench their thirst cap,
tain, mate and crew drank molasses and
vinegar. A diet Of this sort. the skipper
said, was filing but not nutritious. Ihe
labor Of jettisoning the deck cargo, which
often j~ettisoned itself in so wild a way that
all hands except the dog had to take TO the
made the crew 80 weak that they were
Just able to help themselves when the
Peninsular came along.
She stood by from II A. NJ. until dusk
on Thursday before Capt Bettencourt
risked lowering a boat. Even then the seas
were 30 lofty that nearly all the Peninsu-
lars passengers were made seasick by
the rolling of the ship. Capt. Bettencourt
called for volunteers TO man the hfeboat
and Second Officer Jacinthoda Canto
bOttlnO anu uNt tlufuN IOiluku'NF STo-
men responded. They rowed to leeward
OF the schooner and the second officer in
vited Capt. Stanton, Mate Wiley and the
boy crew to jump for il. Capt. Stanton
amt swim. but he plunged into the fer.
ment and after getting a stomachful OF
brine and laundering around a bit was
hauled aboard the lifeboat. Before taking
the leap he tied Niger In a pillow case
and threw him 10 one Of the Portuguese
seamen. who caught the dog and slowed
l. -. d. .l..ns TlAn Ike tuasa Vuaha
the jump and the crew, who can swim like
a duck, followed. being the last man TO
leave the ship" II was impossible to haul
the hfeboat aboard with her burden. She
was guided under the lisa rail 81 the rolling
liner, and, one at "A time, rescued and res-
cuers, from the bow Of the boat, grabbed
the sea ladder and ella aboard.
Tie ifeboat wBs stove against the ships
aid as IL was being hOisted Oh deck.
After a square meal and a nights sleep
the thne@ Maine boys laksd III 60 bs ship
wrecked again. Capt stanton said
sOuT schooner, when he flow the British
flag. ~as wrecked OF Western Tar. ~hl"h
~ one ~ two heaps ~ l.dgs~ Ia the lrls au
IiAuto Channel, LeaI he mouth ~ Penob-
saDt lay, Maine When her ownsr. & l..
hinkIsn ~ kocllhnd. rebuilt her, hr call~d
LEG after tie place where rhs had lzan
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