The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-09-24
BAT TIED
FOR LIFE
ON SEA
Dismasted Vessel
Has Story of
Cyclone.
ANDROMEDA'S
CREW WAS BRAVE
Made 1000 Mile Voyage to
Honolulu Under a Jury
Rig.

The almost wholly dismasted Nor
wegian bark Andromeda, Captain Rot
ter, put into Honolulu yesterday with
a story of battling against terrific
cyclone that caught the staunch HOO
ton vessel about 1000 miles east of Ho-
nolulu, while she was on a voyage
from Iquique, Chile, to Humboldt Bay.
The story of the catastrophe shows
that drawer sailors are seldom found
than these sons of the vikings who bat
tied during the blacklist of nights
the most furious storms encountered at
sea, When it was thought that the yes
sci was about to topple over and bury
all on board a part of the crew went
to the skipper and volunteered to risk
their lives by going below and endeav-
oring to right the vessel by trimming
the dangerous stone and sand ballast
which had shifted and put the vessel
in her precarlouS position.
After saving the vessel the crew
bravely went to work and fitted up
roughly enough sails to carry her to
Honolulu.
Captain Rotter had a rusty nail driv-
en- right through his booted foot dur-
ing the height of the excitement and
remained at his work for an hour and
half without thought as to what
might result from the dangerous hurt.
Then he calmly had the nail pulled
out and again went on with his work
of saving the vessel. He made for Ho-
nolulu as he could get a fair wind to
this place and also because he thought
there was cable station here and his
disappointment was keen when he dis
covered that Honolulu had not yet got
its undersea wire to the coast. He
will now have to wait here for some
time before he can do anything with
the dismasted vessel while communicat-
ing with his owners.
The vessel now lies safely in the row.
As soon as she dropped her anchors
here the sailors, who had been fighting
for their lives for about month,
worked away, heaving anchor chain
and wildly singing Norwegian hymns
Delivered from what they had expected
to be certain death and after having
worked day and night for many days in
saving themselves and the staunch ves-
sci the JOY of the sailors on knowing
that they We're safe was something that
can better be imagined man described.
A dozen of them heaving at the wind
lass, racing round and round, while
singing and laughing was sight to be
remembered.
After going through such tremen-
dous storm and being placed in such
awful positions it is a wonder that the
vessel was saved at all. and it was only
through the pluck and bravery of the
men who manned her that she is in port
today and not lying on the bottom of
the almost unfathomable sea west of
Central America.
DETAILS OF THE OCCURRENCE.
The bark Andromeda left Iquique in
ballast on July 25th bound for Hum
boldt Bay. The vessel had for ballast
between seven and eight hundred tons
Of small stones and sand. She had fair
weather and a fair wind until the zsth
of august. On that day the vessel was
in thirteen degrees n. and 126 w The
barometer went down rapidly during
the afternoon, the wind came strong
from the west, and the officers of the
vessel feared a cyclone. Sail was short
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