The Republican journal., 1905-08-24
THE ICEBERG PERIL.
SILENT FOE THAT OFTEN STAYS
THE NORTHERN MARINER.

factors in navigation by Canadian
which appears to be lost sight of
Their. is the presence Of icebergs
Grand Banks and in Cabot and
Isle straits during the whole sum-
eason. Because of Belle Isle
being blocked with ice until the
. or end of July, the southern
Il. via Cape Race and Cabot Strait,
be utilized in reaching or leaving
cal from May till July. Prior
n the Gulf of st. Lawrence is not
ible at all, because of foes, and
y is the Canadian terminus from
eteding December. From Aug
November Belle Isle Strait can
y ersed, but only with great eau
Is bergs menace all shipping in
" Gather.
IS and foes imperil navigation by
,nadian routes nearly all the year
AS early in the winter as Feb
the big Allen liner Tunisian re-
by wireless telegraphy to the
station at Cape Race that she
zen forced to skirt an Ice pack
ing eastward $50 miles along her
TO Halifax. On July l, again her
r. the turbine engined Victorian,
I'd to Belle Isle station that she
zen detained two days by ice off
rait while making the northern
IT, The Dominion liner Hurona
mllar experience. In the early
# the year the Savoie met an
IS hoe off Boston. The Kaiser
lad a narrow escape from con-
eA a berg. Fearing lest some
nd meet disaster from the IN
revalence of these lloating ter
The big New York liners altered
ties to parallels sixty miles
,4uth.
-evious year the barkentine
+ st. JOINTS for Brazil with a
Try cod, and four hours after
dense fog, struck a berg and
d, the captain and five men
with her. A week later the
Bertha was caught by a foe
Two headlandS, whence there
cape, and, being forced shore
las ground to pieces by the
pressure. Not a soul escaped.
lymion was crushed on the
5anks in March, 1900, when
of thirteen men persisted, and
IS were at deaths door when
rom the pan" or fiat area of
mich they had taken refuge.
bird foundered off Cape Race
y huge berg capsizing and
Ill wave which overwhelmed her.
man out of seven escaped to
ale
re. however, only the domes-
les which are discussed at the
If the islands fsherfolk, for
I1nGiand hardly a family can
but mourns the loss of some
ny this ever present ice peril.
the mysteries Of the North
are due to these cause.-the
&c White star liner Naronic IN
state liner Nebraska in 1898
Milan liner Uuronian in 1901,
sch vanished in the month of
Y without leaving a single
which their fate might be
own. Many tramp steamers,
md since, have undoubtedly
same end-a conclusion war
ny the tales of those fortunate
10 escape with crumpled bows
ed sides.
,lipping annals contain long
liners sent to their doom by
rim sea castles The steamer
an struck one in Belle Isle
ID July, 1861, and foundered
carrying down thirty-fve hu-
ugs with her. The Nicksburg
herself against one off Cape
august. 1915, and forty-seven
rlshed. The Warrior tore out
tom against a pan on the
3anks in 1898, and twenty-nine
we're sacrificed. The Guion
IONA hit one in the same region
1T year, but her superior con-
u saved her from the doom of
is. She remained alioat, put
Iohn's and was repaired. But
NE North Star was victim.
bound to Montreal, and crash
Il glistening barrier in Cabot
lie had $50 immigrants aboard,
y-seyen found their last home
FAN depths. The Me- way was
unfortunate in 1887. She, too,
nd to Montreal, and had large
euent of steerage passengers,
e impaled herself OH a serrated
Q mass, which tore her bottom
the rush and confusion Incl
citing away the boats twenty
IS We're lost.
raeerness was crossing the Grand
u 1891 when she struck a berg a
blow, which stove in her side
eek to waterline, making hole
teet wide. Fearing she would
&c i've men lowered boat and
H into it. The boat was upset,
y were drowned, while the rest
rev, sticking to their posts,
s Ter safely into st. Johns. Here
Is repaired and made the voyage
sfully to New York, her destina-
The Elbrug was bound to Phila-
d when, in 1897, she ran into ice
by change of wind, soon en-
ID her. The breeze increased to
and the enormous "pans' were
a-ainst her sides with the force
.t-ring rams. She was in water
and gradually pumped this out,
aer fractured plates above the
point. They had been attacked
toes along the waterline. She
ltunate enough to make port at
IS. The steamer Castlegate,
i"r New York, was enveloped by
u March, 1898, and so badly
hat all efforts to keep her
re futile, and the crew made
ay onto a ''pan," with boats,
DIVISIONS and kits, awaiting the
idence of the gale. AT this
-- the sealing steamer Diana,
H her annual sealing cruise,
30 transferred the crew to her
Jeck.
nth later the French ship
with seventy-tWo French fish
nom ST Nfalo for ST piarra IN