Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-12

L - good ships Lady MI - -
gent, the City of Glasgow, s.
the City of Boston, the Burve 81
Castle, the Nevrach, and he
will turn away his head.
These and many others form
part of phantom fleet manned by over ten thou
sand souls. They the ships that sailed from
port and never returned. bit of wreckage would
have made of these disappearance every day
disaster at sea; but when the result is utter ami
hilation, often in a calm the thing is uncanny.
From time to time fishermen catch glimpses of
ships that from their movements they know to be
sailing without steersman. Possibly some of these
mysteries might have been cleared up had they
dared venture but sailors superstitious,
and they have crossed themselves, content to
watch the ghostlike hulk drift from sight.
Where Is the Lady Nugent
TT on May I, 1850, that the Lady Nugent
spread her sails at Madras with three hundred and
sixty-seven of the 25th Madras Light Infantry
band playing with host of friends on shore shout
ing farewell, with clear sky above and calm sea
below she left port. Those crowding the wharf
listened to the waning melody of the musicians,
waved their handkerchiefs back to the Pickering
specks of white board the disappearing ship, and
turned to their homes to await the news of safe
arrival.
With no hint of the awful fate to which this
stanch boat with her stalwart men doomed,
they were at first only impatient when the letters
became several days overdue These heightened
into week, and then into month. Questions were
put to all ships entering the port. few had sighted
the Lady Nugent few hundred miles off the Madras
port, and then she had been seen more. No
storms reported and several had made the
passage in the meanwhile with perfect
fort Shipping urged to be the lookout for
the missing craft; but, although within six months
every mile of this covered by passing
boats, no trace was found of the Lady Nugent. The
shores were searched for wreckage. Nothing was
found A year passed, two years. and since then
fifty-seven years have come and gone, only to
deepen the mystery of what became of this good
ship. Where was she lost? How was she lost! 1t
scarcely seems possible that four hundred
people could disappear off the face of the earth
without leaving single clue. 1t though
some unknown power, some demon of the sea,
reached up and dragged boat and all into the depths
Some Historic Disappearance
ONE of the historic disappearance at sea, because
of the size of the ship and the number of pasSen-
gers lost that of the City of Glasgow. This vessel
the first Inman boat and ran between New
York and Glasgow She Clyde built craft of
sixteen hundred tons, and thought at that time
to be of the stanchest boats afoat. In addition
to her engines she bark rugged and could carry
seventy, and when she left port on March l. 1884,
she carried four hundred and eighty passengers
That the last of her 1t though she
had been Not much broken spar has
been found to hint to how she met her fate.
The City of Boston is still discussed stormy
nights by old Captains, the length of the Eastern
coast On January 2o 1870, she sailed from
Halifax for England, with one hundred and ninety
one people on board She Inman liner,
fine ship perfectly equipped. The secret of her
disappearance lies to-day fathoms deep, and doubt
less so will remain to the end of time. That is all.
The members of that group of fathers, mothers,
brothers, sisters, and Sweethearts the pier watch
ing her grow smaller against the horizon line have
grown old and died. and the City of Boston has