Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-17


Knight Bachelor an almost
identical case, and the Hatasu an
other. The John Bright, the Ad-
dington the Rotterdam, and the
Glentwet, to mention only few, similarly
smitten All these had to get wooden bows to
continue. their voyages What small prospect of
by the of the Castlegate, which in March,
1893, crushed and sunk off Newfoundland
her taking to the foe and being adrift thereon
for two days and nights till rescued by the sealer
Diana at the beginning of blizzard which they
could never have survived for it battered the ice
into chowder and would have overwhelmed them.
Big passenger steamers frequently find themselves
IN dire peril from bergs was the experience of the
liner Normannia, now the French flyer LAquitaine,
the Grand Banks May 81, 1890, when, having
threaded her way through wide array of bergs she
put on speed and was racing ahead till fog shut
down. Then crystal barrier interposed, which
she escaped impaling herself upon only by the
prompt working of her twin screws in opposite
directions causing her to spin round on her heel and
just Craze the berg with her side she passed it.
The City of Berlin struck berg in fog on the
Banks three years later but fortunately going at
reduced speed else she would have torn her fore
part asunder Even it was, her stem was tele-
scoped, her fore part shattered and the falling
of a hundred tons of ice about her decks made
wreck of all the gear and fittings from the bow
spirit to the foremost. Her sister Ship the City of
Rome hit a low-lying berg in September, 1900, and
knocked off her stem below the water-line leaving
an aperture large enough to admit automobile.
The crash alarmed the passengers, who were at
lunch at the time, and panc-stricken crowd rushed
on deck; but there was seen to be for
alarm. The Swedish steamer Nordcap, with four
hundred emgrants, hit similar berg off Cape Race
in May, 1901, and sustained such damages that she
had to put into St Johns to effect repairs. This was
also the experience of the French steamer Burgundia
off ST. Pierre in March, 1903, with thousand
French fishermen aboard, whom she was transport
ing to that port to engage in the codshery, and of
whom twelve persisted by the dismant1ing of the
forecastle in which they were lodged.
Many Marrow Escapes
THE Saale another liner that rammed berg
striking it glancing blow she swung round on
sighting it; but the pressure of the mighty
flung her over on her side until it feared she
would sink Indeed, the coal in her bunkers
because of this, and she made port with heavy
list. The Portia, when off Newfoundland in 1906
shot it; but went upon sunken portion of the
ice, disturbed its equilibrium, and was being lifted
up out of water by the swaying mass, when her
weight broke off the fragment which held her and
she sank back into her native element again The
Caspian, with five hundred and fifty emigrants
aboard, bound for Montreal, Cape Race in $780,
in thick fog, drove against berg and shattered
her bow so badly that she was barely able to reach
ST. Johns, SO fast did the water gain her pumps
The Erl King in 1892, met like mishap when enter
ing Beleisle Strait with seven hundred and twenty
emigrants and had to make this port stern first to
relieve the strain on her 1eaky forward bulkhead
The French liner Gascogne, with six hundred
Grand Banks in April, 1898, having been caught
there with broken shaft, and was in extreme peril
for several days, until the foe swept her bodily
southwark into warmer water and was then dis
persed by stiff breeze which set her free The
German liner Bulgaria, in 1901,
PEELED to seek harbor at St. Johns with
nearly one thousand passengers, having
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