The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-03

shouting farewell, with a clear sea before
her, she left port, but she has never reached
Rangoon or any other port known to man.
Two years later the Collins liner Pacific
dropped down the Mersey with 1870 people.
on board. She went the way Of the City
port they found no one knows.
The ship President left New York for
London early in 1871 with many diatin-
guished passengers, among them q son OF
Tyrone Power. She was expected at
Liverpool in March, but April 10 came the
news that she had put into Madeira for
repairs to her engines. She never reached
liverpool or any other portF~.
1T was as late as 1904 that the ship Lam
orna sailed from Tacoma, carrying a cargo
of wheat for Queenstown. Following close
upon the departure came a fierce gale.
Wreckage was found. and the report was
circulated that the ship had been battered
had this report been spread when a ooasting
schooner reported having seen the ship on
0 bay, battered, but apparently we'll
able to withstand the seas.
Il was soon genera lily believed that It
was true that she had weathered the gale
whereof Weeks passed and she wa not
again heard from. Ships were asked to be
on the lookout for her, and new was anx-
iously awaited.
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German ship Artemis sighted a derelict far
out at sea, steering about wildly, beating
against head winds and yet refusing 70
display signals Of any kind. Ahttle later the
unknown threw her head to the east and
executed a series Of freak mannpvTes. it
looked for all the world as though the ship
was manned by crazy men who were trying
to puzzle the Artemis.
The captain OF the Artemis was mystifed:
He steered nearer the strange craft, and
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nam Lamorna. Consulting his shipping
records, he discovered that she was outward
bound and long overdue. But that hardly
accounted for her queer actions.
When within a few hundred yards OF the
ship the captain considered it dangerous
to get very nearl he set signals, but received
no response. For several hours tho weird
bark remained within sight, but neither
siren nor rocket provoked response.
The captain sweep the decks Of the craft,
parently a ship without a crew. running, It
her own free will. The Artemis followed 1t
in it's wild course as long as possible, but
suddenly the hulk turned and made straight
for the open sea. 1t sailed a straight course
as though bound on some important mission,
and 40 proceeded until lost to view below
What had become Of the crew. Were
there in reality some of them left on board,
gone mad under the strain. guiding the ship
know. Certain It is that not q man Of them
was ever heard from, nor has the ship itself
ever been sighted again.
On an average, according to reports from
Lloyds, some sixty ships. with their crew
are 80 blotted from sight every year. In
the year 1890 alone, seventy-nine ships and
twenty-four steamers disappeared, and their
fate is to-day unknown A conservative
estimate would place the number, OF people
so lost daring the last fifty years at over
10000. The size or the stanchness Of the
ship seem to make no difference; big mod
ern steamships have disappeared as easily
as the numberless little sailing craft.