The Savannah morning news., 1901-11-14

saved. She foundered at sea in 1907,
and no one survived. These 10-gun
briggs were built during the war be-
tween England and France. much aft
or the manner of the 9O-day gunboats
If the American navy, and were al
most all UNFIT for sea. a large num-
Der of them foundered in ordinary
stormy weather, involving a terrible
loss of life. From their tendency TO
turn bottom upward they were called
urtles, hence the term turning tur-
te' in the marine vocabulary.
The Martin seems to have been an
Inlucky name for Britain's navy. for
three of them of is, IS and 20 guns,
respectively-foun one in 1900,
another in 1906, and the third in 1926,
not soul being saved. The fatality
which followed the 10-gun briggs also
seems to have attended the 16 and is
gun sloops, judging from the fatality
list of England.
The 64-gun frigate Atheneum was
wrecked near Cape Bon on Oct. 20,
1906, and $50 lives were lost.
The Java, a 32-gun vessel, foundered
off the island of Rodriguez, indian
ocean, in February, 1907, and not soul
was saved.
The Magicienne. Begun vessel. was
wrecked in an engagement with the
French off Mauritius on Aug, %. 1910.
The 74-gun frigate Minotaur was
wrecked off the mouth of the Texel,
Dec. %, 1910, and of a crew of $40 more
than 400 were lost.
on the coast of Jutland, on Dec. 81,
ISL, the SS-gun frigate st. George and
two 74-gun frigates-the Defense and
the Hero-foundered in tempest OF
the total number of people on the
three ships (about 1900, not twenty
were saved.
The frigate Atalanta was wrecked on
Sambro Island on Nov. 10. 1873
The Delight, a 16-gun brig, foundered
in a hurricane near Mauritius on Feb.
%. 1924, and not a soul of the crew of
seventy-five was saved.
The frigate Avenger was wrecked in
the Mediterranean on Dec. 20. 1S47, and
only four of the crew of nearly 300 es-
capped drowning.
The Raleigh, 50-gun ship was
wrecked on the southeast coast of Ma
Gao on April IA, 1857.
One Of the most mysterious disasters
of the British navy was the loss of the
turreted ironclad Captain. She was cap
sized and foundered off Cape Finis-
terre. Spain, on Sept. 7, 1870, and only
seventeen escaped of nearly 500 on
board.
On Sept. 1. 1875, the cruiser Van
Sudlu WAS run iHiO anu SUNNI ny lHC
ircnclad Iron Duke.
Less than a year afterward, on July
IA. 1876, one of the boilers of the bat
tleship Thunderer exploded. when for
ty-five of the crew were killed outright
and about fifty were more or less in
jured. The same vessel exploded one of
her 3S-ton guns on Feb -. 1880, when
ten of the crew were killed and forty
or more wounded.
On March "a, 1873, the training ship
Eurydice foundered in a gale off the
Isle of Wight. when 800 lives were lost
On March g. 1889. the ironclad Sui
tan was wrecked by running ashore on
the Maltese group.
one of the most remarkable and al
NEST unaccountable disasters in the
British navy was that of the battle
ship Victoria. which was sunk by col
lision with the battleshp Camperdown
on June %. 1898. OF the people on board
there were nearly 400 lost, including
Admiral Tryon.
There have been disasters in other
1avles as well. but not so large pro-
portion as in the British navy. The
United States navy has not been ex-
cmpt by any means. but while there
has been more or less criticism of
American naval officers. and some
have suffered the penalties of the court
martial, there has been a smaller per-
centage of losses than in the English
service
What's in a name?" is an old and
familiar maxim: but there is a good
deal, in the opinion of many naval men.
to encourage superstition when one re-
calls the losses of some of the ships.
For instance, the people Of Boston felt
honored when one Of the first vessels
TO be built for the modern steel navy
was named the Boston, but she was
not the first. The first Boston, built in
that city in 1776, was a 24-gun frigate,
but she was captured at Charleston, s.
C.. when that city succumbed to the
British during the Revolution. Boston
No. was sunk in the battle on Lake
Champlain in 1913. she being one of Ar
nold's flotilla. Boston No. was burned
in 1914 at Washington, to prevent her
falling into the hands of the enemy.
Roston No. was lost in the West In
dies in a hurricane in 1S46. Boston No.
is still afoat. but she has met with
several accidents, more or less impor-
tant.
The United States navy has had four
Philadelphias the first being wrecked
on reef off Tripol in 1903; fell into
the hands of the barbarians: was re-
captured by Decatur. after being raised
by the Algerians. and burned by him.
The second and third of this name
were also lost-No. 2 under Arnold. be
ing sunk in battle in 1912 on Lake
Champlain. and No. was sunk by tor
redoes in the Civil War.
The first Yorktown was wrecked on
the island of Mayo. Cape de Verdes. in
1850.
The first Concord. built In 1928. was
wrecked in the Moza mbique Channel
in 1S43. only three persons escaping.
The loss of the double ender gunboat
Wateree, in 1868, at Iquique, Peru, is
well remembered by the officers now
living who were attached TO her at
that time. She was lying in the har-
Dor It the time when tidal wave
rolled in, tore her away from her an
chorage, then swept her out to sea.
then back again to the harbor and in
land about mile. where she lies to-
day, being used as a sort OF summer
hotel. At that time nearly the whole
town OF Iquique was destroyed by the
shock of the earthquake and the tidal
wave.
The disaster at Samoa, in March.
1893, when the Trenton, the Nipsic and
other vessels were wrecked, Ia one of
the interesting disasters on record.
The sloop- of-war Galena was a loss
that excited no little criticism at the
time she was wrecked near Gay Head
lighthouse, in good weather. while on
her way from New York to the New
England coast. in March IA, 1891
The old Kearsarge, the vessel that
fought the privateer Alabama. off
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