Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1908-09-08
TRAPS FOR MARINERS
Some Points Of Peril That Are
Dreaded by Seamen.
MERcILEss kENTIsH KNOCK.
This Real paVy Jones' Locker 10 q
Vast csmstsry For All Ships That
Are eripped BY lts Relentless sands
Sable islands Fingers Of Death.


Sable islands Fingers Of Death.
The exact location Of Davy Jones'
locker Is not shown on any ocean chart
extant principally because II Is a state
and not a place, but II any one ocean
death trap deserves the title Il ls the
Thames estuary. The British naval
department has chart upon which
It marks the position OF wrecks with
a black dot. On this chart the Thames
mouth tract is a solid black spot So
numerous have been the wrecks that
the dots run togethcF. The point
where the black dots actually pile one
Non top Of another Is the Kentish Knock,
and this Is the place among all OF the
oceans danger spots that deserves tho
title OF Davy Jones' locker
At the Kentish Knock II Il not keel
SCATTERING rocks OF piercing points OF
coral that wreck the ocean travellers.
II !. sand. treacherous. cllnging sand.
that grasps the doomed ship with a
grip Of steel and holds Il firmly while
the angry sea beats It 10 fragments.
Many a vessel posted nj Lloyd's as
missing would DO duly accounted for
II the Knock sand would give up its
booty. There Is no hope for ship 81
man when Father Neptune asks toll AZ
the KentIsh Knock. for the nearest
land Is twenty miles away and tho
nearest llfeboat at Margate. thirty
miles away.
The sands OF the ocean are far more
dangerous than the rocks Tho sand
banks extend over more space. there.
fore oifer more points Of contact than
the rocks. which usually rise In one
slender pinnacle. The waters now over
them IN smooth waves. and there are
no warning breakers.
Next 10 tho Thames mouth tract in
point Of danger Il the Hugh. the salt
water river on which Calcutta stands.
The mast trying part of large sessers
voyage from New York 10 Calcutta h
the last few miles OF this cAsm river.
IN this strange river In wiBdlcAs wentn-
er and fiet calm wster vessels have
bccniost dashed 70 plecea on shs ever
shifting sand banks ~ the force Of
the tides The sanas grasp the keel %
the marked vessel. aud che stops. bat
the tide moves on with relentless force.
ana the helpless shlg Il carried over
on her beam cpda shs careens over
and founders with an on board. one
OF tlle worst shoals IN the Hugh bears
the name Jamea and Mary, IL WIS
The nnme % great indian merchant
shlpwrecked on the sunhen sand banks.
Another danger point dreaded ~ the
master mariner has neither sand nor
rocks. bat a great submarine waterfall
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