The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-20
VANISHED SHIPS.
Vessels That Have Disappeared and
Left No Trace

There are few things which are so full
OF mystery or which make such a power
ful appeal to the imagination, says the
New York Herald, as the stories of ships
that sail CALAMITY out to sea and of which
nothing IS ever heard or seen after the
maStS have dipped below the horizon. At
present the papers are full Of the records
Of these marine tragedies. Today it is the
CIaVerdale, which left HOngkOng for Via
diVOstOk, and of which no trace has been
found; yesterday it was the Royalist,
which cleared from Singapore to Hong
kong and never reached her destination;
the day before it was the Idum, from Nor
way, which vanished from human view;
and so on, through the long list of ships
that have sailed and disappeared.
What are the secrets OF these mystic
riOuS VanlShingS OF stately ships with
their crews and cargOes In nineteen
cases out Of twenty the secrets lie with
the ships many faJhCms deep, and will,
perhaps, never leap TO light. TO this day
no one knows what became of the City Of
Glasgow, which set her sails so CALAMITY
in the Mersey half a century ago, bound
for Philadelphia, nor was she seen again
after the hills Of Wales were lost to view.
The Burvie Castle left London some
years ago on a long voyage to Australia.
She should have made a final call at
Plymouth, but she never came within
sight of the Hoe, nor has human eye ever
seen her from the day she dropped down
the channel 1t was on May 10, 1854, that
the Lady Nugent spread her sails at Ma
draS with 361 OF the TWenty-fifth Madras
uSnI luIdnlTy ana OLIleG passengers Oll
board. Her destination was RangOOn, but
half a century has gone and neither Ran
COON nor any other port has sighted her
Nearly two years later the. Collins liner
Pacific dropped down the sMerse9 with $50
souls on board She was accounted one OF
the stoutest and sWiftest vessels Of her
time, and so, no doubt, she was. But she
went the way the City of Glasgow had
gone a couple of years earlier, and for
fOrty-nine years has been lying at the
bottom Of the sea, but where none may
know till all secrets are revealed The
trading vessel Atlanta started quarter
of d century ago for short cruise IN
Bermudan waters, and from that day to
this no one knows what became OF her
and the 80 souls she carried.
On Jan. 20 1870, the City Of Boston sailed
from Halifax for England with 191 souls
on board. She was an Indian liner, fine
ship, spIendidly equipped and handled, but
she, too was destined to vanish from the
face Of the waters.
The victim of another still remembered
ocean mystery was expected at Liverpool
in March, 1871, March passed and Liver
pool saw nothing of her. The long delay
IN her arrival caused great anxiety, and
the widest rumorS began to be circulated.
On April IL news came that her engines
and rudder had been disabled In heavy
weather, and that she had put into Ma
deira for repairs, and there naturally fol-
lowed a reaction from gloomy forebOdings
TO transports of JOY. The vessel was eX-
pected at Liverpool on a certain day. and
her arrival was awaited by hundreds OF
people who had friends aboard, but she
never came, and it was found that the
story of her arrival at Madeira was a
heartless hoax. All the time the Inflated
vessel was at the bottom of the sea.
On Nov. 3d. 1888, a large vessel was
seen from the beach at Deal sailing to-
ward the Goodwin sands. She was fair