The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-02-15
TWO BIG SCHOONERS MAKE
PORT IN DIRE DISTRESS
One of Them Had Lost Two Men by Death,
and the Other Had Not an Ounce
of Food Aboard.

Two ships in dire distress followed
each other into port yesterday morn
ing First, and in the greater distress,
perhaps, came the four masted schoon-
er Carrier Dove, C. Jensen master, all
the way from Beira, South Africa. with
only the master, the mate and two men
left to work the vessel. The voyage,
according to the ships log, was one
long tragedy the whole way from Beira
TO this port. and beyond the African
town. The schooner left Aberdeen, on
Gray's Harbor, with a load of lumber
I for Beira on June %. 1902. She was
one man short in her crew when she
started, men being scarce and hard to
get. Her troubles began the first day
out of port. The weather was bad, and
she ran down until she had reached
the latitude Of Cape Horn, on August
81. Then she encountered terrific
Southerly gales, and for two weeks she
was buffeted by such winds and seas
as her skipper mad never seen, although
he had been going to sea for twenty
six years. Everything movable on her
| decks was swept overheard, and one
tremendous sea that broke over her
| forward swept away her cut-water and
1
ship was listed two feet to port. If
the Carrier Dove had not been a
staunch ship, then that sea would have
Swamped her.
| Her forecastle was filled with water
and she began to leak so badly that
all hands went to the pumps, and
worked until human nature could stand
no more. She had nine feet of water
in her then and Captain Jensen ran for
Port Stanley, in the Falklands, to get
help and rest his crew.
| The weather then moderating and
| the ship being relieved of water, she
continued her voyage and reached
Beira on October IL. On November 10
she sailed from there, and the first day
at sea John McCar, A. B., who had
been drinking heavily in port, but who
was not drunk at the time, deliberately
Jumped overheard. The ship was then
making ten knots, but was put about
and a boat lowered to save the man.
He was swimming strongly, directly
away from his rescuers, when Captain
Jensen, going aloft to direct the move
ments of the boat. saw an immense
shark in the sea, headed for the SWIM
mer from a direction opposite to that
from which the boat of the rescuers
was approaching. 1t was race be-
W
and the Mortified skipper was com
PEELED to witness it, unable to do more
than urge the men on. By just the
narroWest margin the life savers won
the race, but the shark had turned
over to seize its pray when the man
was pulled into the boat.
About an hour after being brought
back aboard the schooner, McCar died,
apparently from the bursting OF
blood vessel in his head. He was bur
led at sea.
And still the hoodoo followed the
Carrier Dove. On January 10 the car
penter went aloft, during a tropical
storm, and fell from the yard, dis
lance of 80 feet, into the sea. He never
rose. being probably stunned by the
fall. His name was s. Anderson, anu
he was a native of Norway.
Then two of the men who had been
Skinned at Beira went down with chllls
and fever, and one of the mates was
taken with a sore throat that lncapac-
itated him for work. This left put the
skipper and one mate and a man 10
work the ship. The task was too great.
IN February 8 the captain made up his
mind to run for Honolulu, the nearest
mort. and get help to take the snip
home. Her sick are in the hospltal
and she will probably have to undergo
extensive repairs here
Following close upon the heels OF
the Carrier Dove as she came INTO port
urae tho beautiful new four masted
schooner Forest Home, Captain Ever
SON also in most dire distress. There
was not a morsel of food on board her
when she came in through the reel,
and the men had eaten their last meal
last night. She carried no sail but ner
mainsaiI and jibs- Everything else
had been swept away IL the Vesssi
had not been new, in the opinion Vi
her captain, she would never nav
made port at all. On Decem per - INC
Forest Home left Hakodate lot ioh 'J
hama. having a partial cargo VI 5
nh,lr on board for San Francisco, anu
Intending TO load 800 tons of measured
freight at Yokohama to complete heL
cargo On the first day out sne was
blown off shore in a hurricane, LOSING
every sail on her but the main ana
fins and from that time forward IL
vas one hurricane after another 1t
was literally impossible to make any
headwav at all in the direction the
shin wanted to go and at last, in sheer
desDair she was put before the gaze
under bare poles and ran for her lie.
For % DAYS the gale and the seas
eu-ar+ her along. The men on board
co,1Id do nothing. They had to hans
ON Ia the ropes of her for dear NE
when the weather moderated a niue
+bo schooner was closer to Honolulu
than any other port, and she was run
for here She has been IS days man
ing the run, after the gale blew ltselI
ont. and reached port WITHOUT an
ounce of food on board.