The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-20

and then the steamer started on in quest
Of the Cakes, sighting her again some hours
later in a wore storm, whlch lasted LOT
two DAYS, during which time il was impos-
siEle to send II boat TO her, but the steamer
lay by her till the weather alated and then
took effective steps to succor the crew ana
get the craft under control, ,
1t was found that. every body on board
| the Cakes wes aflitted with scurVy, OF
which five seGmen had died, save the cap
tain's wife, upon whom, through sheer
pressure OF necessity, much OF the lnbor
Of working the ship fell, The second and
third mates were unable to go aloft. The
Chinese steward was also incapable Of
sailor tasks, Twelve seamen lay IN their
berths helpless, The captain had been
| stricken with paralysis. In the China Sea
two typhoons drove the ship out OF her
course, and, though intending to round
the Cape Of Good Hopei she had to make
for Cape Horn.
Another remarkable case was that OF the
steamer Perthshire, of the Australian coast
In 1890, which drifted about for forty-tive
days helplessly, covering ! 400 miles before
being rescued. On April 20 she left Sydney
for Bluff Head, a four days voyage. On
May 20 a schooner put into Sydney report
ing that she had sighted the missing steamer
two weeks previously, when the Perthshire
had beer adrift ten days without sighting
| on in the tailshaft and her spread Of can
vas being too limited to give her even steer
ing way,
and was drifting north toward some evil
reefs, every available craft was sent In
eral liners and a fotilla Of tugs. Eventu-
ally the steamer Tolune came upon her
before daylight on JUNE 10, some $50 miles
of her course, the Perthshire being DESCRIBED
lust an hour before the Tolune's captain
had determined TO abandon the search.
A towline was passed and for t~hirty-six
hour the Tolune got her along. Then n
heavy sea tore them apart and TO get them
coupled again roc ots, with lines attached,
had to be fired from enc ship to the other.
Another almost incredible story OF a
dereliot Is that Of the wooden bark Sid
dartha, which left Jacksonville on january
10, 1899, lumber laden, for Liverpool, and
became dismasted in n gale, n heavy sea
then drenching. her from stem to stern,
destroying all the provisions and carrying
crew Of twelve suhsisted on raw potatoes.
The captain had his forehead laid open
and one eye blinded by q blow from a
stanchion; the b%oatswain had an arm broken;
the chief mate and two seamen were stricken
with serious illness, due to their weakened
condition, and as day succeeded day with.
out prospect Of rescue despair settled
upon all. ,
her. and then the Norwegian bark YER
UunIe Chilit Wy htiu ooN hNi ~ -
nearly five months after this the derelict
drifted helrlessly about the ocean cover
ing moro than 1900 miles and being re-
ported no fewer han f%orty.one mes.
The captain Of the steamer 0akmoro set
her on fire in hope OF Kidding the seas Of .uch
a menace, but the fire failed TO DESTROY her
| Ultimately. after a chorus OF COMPLAINTS
from steamship captains as to her. OBJ
strncting the liner track 300 miles of the
Irish coast, II. NJ. s. Melampus was e n
out and secured her, towing her into
Bantry Bay, where she was subsequently
used as a coal hulk:
There are more than l?o derelicts logged
by the marine officers as being adrift in
the north Atlantic at the present time
two lumber laden craft, the Bronson II
and the Mary Manning, being right in, the
liner track east OF the Dunnlore. Along
the Atlantic seaboard from the Florida
Reefs to Cape Race Ia a procession OF drift
ing waits. At times the American navy
sends out a gunboat' to destroy some spe-
cially OBJ ~jeotionable or dangerous hulk,
the British Admiralty doing the same on
| the other side; but there Ia no concerted
policy for Kidding the ocean lanes Of them
and no general crusade by these two Govern
ments,