Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-12-23
WRECKED.
|vanhoe Helpless Off the
Bahama Islands.
Hopes Entertained for Safety
of the Crew.
New Vessel Of 146 Tons--Captained by
Young Man, 26 Years of Age.

Halifax. N. s., Dec. PA cable re
| ceived, today, by Mayor Crosby. agei.r
of the missing schooner Ivanhoe from
| correspondents in London, states that {
wreck reported passing in the vicinity
of Bermuda, Nov. 16. was believed t.
| be the missing vessel. Mayor Crosby's
information differs from The Associat-
ed Press bulletin, inasmuch as it states
as possibility that the crew of the
lvanhoe had been able to leave the YES
sci ard may have been picked up by q
passing ship.
The Ivanhoe left Halifax, Nov. 6, fol-
the Bahamas, carrying a general cargo
and did not reach her destination. She
was a new vessel of LAG tons. three
mastc and was owned by Robert Moul-
ton OF Burgeo, N. F.. was under a
three months charter to George c.
Cook OF Halifax. Mr.. Cook had selected
this particular vessel because she had
shown such great speed i'm trip made
just previously from New FOundland 10
Portugal and return. Capt Hare, mas
ter of the Ivanhoe. boosted that he
would be able TO make the run in seven
or eight DAYS. Besides Capt. Hare, the
crew consisted OF the captains father.
who was mate of the vessel and five
BurSeo men, all relatives of the cap
tain
w. F. Collins of Charlottetown. p. F..
l., Went as q passenger. 1t had not been
Mr. Collins original intention to go by
selling vessel. He was in Winnipeg
when Mr.. Cook telegraphed him offer
ing him position as manager of the
branch to be opened in the Bahamas
and on his acceptance, he was instruct
ed to come to Halifax for instructions
in time to take u steamer from New
York, Oct. 81. He was delayed, how
ever. and did not arrive here on time
and it was decided that he should go
in the 1vanhOe. He is &c years old and
was u member of the medical corps
who went to South Africa with the Ca
madam contingent during the Boer war.
The Ivanhoe was only launched in
June. She was built by Willard, in Liv-
erpool. n. s., from a Burgess design
and was perfect yacht in appear
ance. With her cargo. consisting as it
did mostly of lumber. she was practi-
cally unsuitable. The captain was a
Eul nctUliS Is k1lOWll
here of the crew as all We're shipped in
New Foundland.
Halifax friends of the crew of the Ivan
hoe are in doubt as to whether those on
board the schooner escaped from the dere-
lict or not. The substance of the advice
from London to the owners at Burgeo
n. F. in relation to the disaster vas tel
egrarhed from Burgeo to the agents at
Halifax. This message says the Ivanhoe
was passed at sea- waterlogged and
abandoned The agents. A. B. Crosby <
Co, say the use of the term abandoned
suggests that the crew had an opportunity
to leave their vessel When shown The
Associated Press dispatch that the correct
report OF the ship Stambou was that the
wrecked vessel was overturned, the
agents said in that case it would look as
il the crew of the Ivanhoe may have per-
ished. But until otherwise advised by
their correspondents in London. Messrs.
Crosby preferred to believe the informa-
ton expressed in their own cable to be
correct.