The sun., 1907-11-29
SHIP HERSELF PICKED Him UP
SEA roo ROUGH TO RESK SEND
ING A BOAT .AFTBR HIM.

skipper AIanDnVrsd HIS vsssol 60 whnd-
ward OG the Man Overheard ana ono 81
tho Crow LassOssi Hlm -SSnetaunes Try
This Trick At Sea, but seldom succeed.
The stout steol British freiRhter Hudson.
redolcnt OF spices from ports Of the Far
East. crawled into port yesterday from
Bermuda. where she had stopped TO re-
plenish her coal bunkers. with one mighty
happy quartermaster aboard. Tho whole
ships company relOioed with him. for he
is a favOrite, and there was not mothers
son Of them that did not try at least to
do something heroic when Davy Jones
had the quartermaster by the throat and
seemed to be drag gging him under.
The Quartermaster, 10 a Malay and his
English is not comprehensive enough TO
permit him to tell exactly what happened
TO him when the Hudson was using her
last few tons of coal bucking her way to
Bermuda 10 get more. II was a question
with Capt. Fenton whether or not he would
have to burn fittings to make the coal port.
The Hudson was about $50 miles to the
eastward Of the vexed islands. dipping
her nose in the riot. when the quarter
master. Anan. started down from the
bridge TO get pail Of water to clean things
in the chart room. just then a sea swept
over the starboard side, arching the bridge.
and struck the quartermaster. sending
him flying head over heels to leeward.
Capt. Fenton and Mate McCOnigle, who
were on the bridge. promptly cut away
two ring buoys there and sent them
a-sailing after the quartermaster
In less than a minute the whole outfit
above and below decks. including forty
one Malay and Chinese seamen and stokers,
knew that the good little quartermaster
was hOundering in the ferment. Every
lascar on deck ran for a line. got il and
rushed 20 the lee rail. Capt. FentOn then
did what the mate says was a hazardous
bit Of seamRnship. He put his helm hard
over and turned the ships stern TO the
gale. He made a complete circle OF the
quartermaster, who had chung to the bucket
and was holding il fast under his arms,
bottom mp. The skipper made a lee for the
Malay with the ship. while nearly every
man on deck lined the lee rail and hove a
line at the quartermaster. He clung to
his bucket. apparently fearing to risk
catching at a line or navigating toward a
life buoy. A dozen lascars and several
white men OF the crew stripped themselves
and stood ready TO go overheard with lines
when the ship got near enough. By man.
Oeuvring cleVerly the skipper got so close
alongside OF Anan that IL was possible to
hit him with the end Of a line. He made
no elOrt 90 grasp any OF the lines. The
fact vas that lle was all n. and was cling
ing with deaths grip to his bucket.
Then one OF the clever mon Of the crew
devised n lasso and noosed tho quarter
master around the neck Anan's friends
fiocked 10 the line and might have decapi-
tated him If they had not been restrained.
A sea ladder which had been put over the
side was soon filed with men. some naked.
ready to give him hand. Third Engineer
George Murray was fhe first man down the
ladder after Anan had been hauled to the
foot Of II. As Murray reached down 20
get the Quartermaster a sea swatted both
Of them. Murray got Anan in the firm
grip of a mechanic and held on until the
sea had spent it's force. He had a life line
around him and he knew that the men
above him would haul him back. They
did, and with him came the unconscious
qusrtermsster. who had been twenty min
utes in the water and had been turned over
many times and pretty well filed with
brine. II took nearly an hour to bring
Anan around.
AS launching a lifeboat was impossible
in the combers the only way the quarter
master could be saved was with the ship
herself. 1t has been done only few times
before. but has often been attempted.
In the Gulf Of Alden. where il is some
times as hot as Tophet, one OF the Chinese
stOkers jumped overheard. A boat was
lowered and he was pickedup. He went back
on duty after a days rest and came in yes
terday glad that he had not succeeded in
drowning himself The mate said that il
was a common thing for Chinese stOxers
10 go mad in the hot gulf and seek relief
from Davy Jones'. IL was also a common
thing to save them and get their thanks
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