Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-19
WALDEMAR STRANDED
11NEE GROUNDS NEAR WRECK OF
THE PRINzEss1N VICTORIA.

NEW YORK, January 19.-The Hamburg
American Line has received a cablegram
from Jamaica telling of the stranding of
their new 6,OOO-ton tourist steamer Prinz
Waldemar. The cable was sent from King
ston yesterday by Capt. Forwood, the COM
pany's general Jamaican agent. 1t reads:
Steamer Prinz Waldemar stranded at 2
am. today half mile east of Plum Point
The Merritt-Chapman wrecking steamer
Premier has gone to her rescue. Stranding
due to destruction of lighthouses and in
ability to warn ships off:
The officials of the line have no doubt of
the safety of the passengers on tn, Waldo
mar, because any miShap to them would
have been mentioned by Capt. Forwood. 1t
is impossible to tell who was on the ship
The passengers she took for Kingston when
she left here on December 30 were landed
at that place on January 4. Proceeding to
other ports she picked up an entirely new
set of passengers, whose names it has been
impossible to obtain. 1t is regarded as I'M
likely that more than one or two Americans
were on the ship. She usually brought
many islanders to Kingston and filled I'D
there with tourists for New York
Strikes Near Plum Point.
After touching at Savanilla, Colombia
and Cartagena, Venezuela, the Waldemar
proceeded 10 Port Lmon Costa RIGA, 1leav-
ing for Kingston on January IA, the day of
the earthquake. She was due there on Jan
uary II. 1t is thought that Capt. Winter
was delayed by heavy weather, so that he
approached Kingston after midnight in
stead of in the daytime. With lights to the
harbor gone he probably lost his bearings
and the boat ran aground about half O. mile
to the eastward of the harbor entrance
formed by the projection of land known as
Plum Point Exactly half way between
him and the harbor inlet when the dawn
broke Capt. Winter must have seen the
wreck of the Prinzessn Victoria Luise of
his own line, whose captain ran her aground
and then shot himself.
Hope to Pull Ship OFF,
From the circumstances of the wreck the
Hamburg-American people here believe that
although tie bottom where the ship ran
aground is of coral formation and extreme
~ tenacious of such things as the kees of
good ships she will be pulled off in GOOD
condition. The Waldemar is only three
years old and has been in the Jamaica West
Indian business only since last summer. She
was then put with four other new steam
ers named after some of the German
| princes and called the PrinZ boats. All
| these especially equipped for the trop
| les. Her captain has been in the Atlas serv-
| ice for several years and is an officer in
| the imperial German naval reserve.
The only other advices the Hamburg Line
| had yesterday from Jamaica is a cable
| from Capt. Forwood saying that when the
| prinz Elite, Friedrich should arrive from
| Santa Marta Colombia, he would send lG1
| tourists to New York on her She was due
Yesterday and should get here on Monday
| There are approximations as to the Eite
| Friedrich The experience of the American
| battleships shows that it is possible to enter
| the harhor by day in spite of the lack of
| ! .1ks and the shifting of the channel.