Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1907-09-28
SECRETS OF THE SEA.
Mystery Of Vessels Which Disappear
Without Known Cause.

Without Known Cause.
Nothing is more FASCINATING than try
Ing to fathom the secrets OF the deep,
particularly when 1t comes to speculate
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 OIL
a safe voyage, never to be heard of
again.
What are the secrets of these mys-
terious vanishings of stately ships win
their crews and cargoes? In nineteen
eases 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 or the
CITY of Glasgow, which set her sails
so calamity In the Mersey half a cen
fury and more ago. bound for Phlla-
delphia. She carried over 400 passen-
gers and crew of seventy-six, but
she never reached Philadelphia, nor
WINS she seen again after the hills OF
Wales were lost to view.
The Burvie Castle left London some
wears ago on Il long voyage to Austria
LA. She should have made maj can
at Plymouth, but she never came WIN
In sight of the Hoe, nor has human
eve ever seen her from the day she
dropped down the channel. 1t was on
Nav 10. 1854, that the Lady Nugent
spread her sails at Madras with 36f OF
the Twenty-ffth Madras Light infantry
and other passengers on board. Her
destination was Rangun, but hair Il
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
WINS accounted one of the stoutest ana
swiftest vessels Of her time, and SO no
doubt she was. But she went the way
the CITY of Glasgow had gone couple
of years earlier and for years mas
been living at the bottom of the sea,
Int where none may know till all Sc
crets are revealed. The training vessel
ATLANTA started quarter OF cen
turv ago for a short cruise IN Bermu-
dan waters. and from that day TO TINS
no one knows what became OF her ana
the go souls she carried.
On Jan. %, 1870, the City OF Boston
sailed from Halifax for England with
191 souls on board. She was an In
man liner, a fine ship, splendidly equip
ped and handled, but she, too, was
destined to vanish from the face OF
the waters.
The victim Of another still remem
bered ocean mystery was the Presi
dent. n fine vessel, which was expected
at Liverpool In March, 1S41. MarcI
passed. and Liverpool saw nothing Of
her. The long delay in her arriva
caused great anxiety, and the wildes
rumors began to be circulated. vi
April Is news came that her engines
and rudder had been disabled In heav!
weather and that she had put int
Madeira for repairs, and there natural
" followed q reaction from gloom!
forebodings to transports Of JOY. III
.
vessel was expected at Liverpool on
certain day, and her arrival was await
ed by hundreds Of people who ha'
friends aboard, but she never came
and 1t was found that the story OK he
arrival at Madeira was heartles
hoax. All the time the Ill fated vesse
was at the bottom Of the sea.
On Nov. 80, 1888, large vessel wa
| seen from the beach at Deal sailin
. toward the Goodwin sands. She wa
fair picture to look on as she move
over the water with her stately sprea
:, of sails, but as the eyes of the water
ers followed her she was seen TO pause
and within a few seconds she vanishe
utterly from their view. What cause
this tragically sudden disappearance
of q stately ship? That Is another
the countless secrets which the ocea
has in its jealous keeping.-Philade
;, phia North American.