Milford chronicle., 1907-10-18
Mystery of Vessels Which Disappear
Without Known Cause.

WNnout Known Cause.
Nothing is more fascinating than try.
ing to fathom the secrets of the deep,
particularly when 1t comes to speculat-
ing on the fate of vessels which have
disappeared without known cause.
There are many such cases, and they
are absolutely battling. Ships have
gayly left port, with every prospect of
a safe voyage never to be heard Of
again
What are the secrets Of these mys-
ferrous vanishings of stately ships with
their crews and cargOes? In nineteen
cases out Of twenty the secrets lie with
the ships many fathoms 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 cen
fury and more ago. bound for Phila-
delphia She carried over 400 passen-
gers and a crew Of seventy-six. but
she never reached Philadelphia. nor
was she seen again after the hills Of
Wales were lost to view.
The Burvie Castle left London some |
years ago on long voyage to Austria |
liza. She should have made a final call |
at Plymouth but she never came with
in 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 Madras with 367 of
the Twenty-fifth Madras Light infantry
and other passengers on board. Her
destination was Rangun, but half
century has gone. and neither Bangun
nor any other port has sighted her
Nearly two years later the Collins
liner, the Pacific, dropped down the !
Mersey with $50 souls on board. She I
was accounted one Of the stoutest and t
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 years has
been lying at the bottom OF the sea,
put where none may know till all Sc
,rets are revealed. The training vessel
Atalanta started a quarter Of a cen
ury ago for a short cruise in Bermu-
Ian waters, and from that day to this
10 one knows what became of her and
he go souls she carried.
On Jan. %. 1870, the City of Boston
allied from Halifax for England with
81 souls on board. She was an In
ian liner, fine ship, splendidly equip
ed and handled, but she, too was
estined to vanish from the face Of
lie waters.
The victim of another still remem-
cred ocean mystery was the Presi- to
emit fine vessel. which was expected
Liverpool in March, 1871. March -
lssed, and Liverpool saw nothing of r
II. The long delay in her arrival
used great anxiety, and the widest E.
mOrs began to be circulated. On an
Dril Is news came that her engines in,
i'd rudder had been disabled in heavy foI
Gather and that she had put into -;
adelra for repairs, and there natural J,ui
followed a reaction from gloomy uel
to transports of joy. The on
ssel was expected ut Liverpool on a me
rtain day, and her arrival was await me
by hundreds of people who had VIII
ends aboard, but she never came, DrO
d it was found that the story of her -
'ival at Madeira was a heartless w
Ak. All the time the i'll fated vessel II
s at the bottom of the sea.
IN Nov. 80. 1883, a large vessel was
n from the beach at Deal sailing -
yard the Goodwin sands She was IBE
air picture to look on as she moved lNI
r the water with her stately spread
sails, but as the eyes Of the watch
followed her she was seen to pause. To
within a few seconds she vanished So, g
.rly from their view. What caused -
tragically sudden disappearance
4 stately ship? That is another Of
countless secrets which the ocean -
in its Jealous keeping.-Philadel-
/ North American.