The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-09-25
SHIPS THAT ARE UNPOPULAP.
Hard 10 Ptnd Crews for Vessels 90 Whirh
MIsfortunes Uavo Come.

| The diAAStT ous explosion In Submarine a
may make " difficult to find crews IN man
her In the future She - th. same ve~.a.
which earlier IN her career sank with all on
| board
Both in our navy and IN our nierch ant sery.
| Ice there are ships which have become va.
] popular because OF the ~ luck which seems
/ TO dog them
There was the DESTROYER Thrasher After
one or two small accidents she ran slap into
the cruiser Pha.'on IN Plymouth. Having
been repaired she pat to sea. hut had got no
fur'her than The Lizard before an explosion
on board sent her home again. with three
| poor fellows stif and stark Later on she
/ ran ashore
| Then there was tho Lynx also a destroyer
| On her trial trip she ran into a merchant
! vessel called th" Iiysrd and sank her. being
badly damaged herself Next a boiler tub.
burst. and lastly. she drove ashore on The
| Lizard
! Lizard L. an III omened nam" for a British
ship. We have lost no fewer than three
units Of our navy which bore this name
! Al ships named after reptiles RNern To share
J the same III fortune We have lost four
| NipcrS. -four SsrpcntS. two snakes. two
Dragons. one Adder. one ALLIGATOR. one
Ba-ilhsk. one Crocodile and one Cobra.
quite recently a CHASTITY explosion &C
| CURED aboard tho French training ship Ia
'
men and woundinR twenty Others. This
Was tho third accident which had occurred
in this ship within four years The hrs'
was On April ~. lg-. the second on Angus
}. 1897 In each CaSe IL was "a 4 gun which
burst In each premature explosion of car
fridge was the cause and In each az least
three men wer~ killed
The Texas IL N. hOOdOO OF the Amer
can navy within fvs years she eNper.-
enced eight accidents Twice she hrose
down twice she went ashore She had n
series Of explosions IN her -tokehold, and
finally when NJ nrirg practice both h"r
n inch guns W"re fired simultaneously and
tho double dis hars" caused m" guns 'n
break from their foundations and IN" de'k.
to 30 shattered In an amazing fashion
several men being badly hurt
Another unlucky unit % the Unr..i
States navy - tho COnne~ficut Wh1
she vas on tho stocks an attempt Ms
made to cripple her by boring hoies 20
her sides At her launching ths bottl" OF
failed to break on her bows
During her trials serious defects deveioU.i
In her machinery. Then after seVerli
small scCdcnts shs ran on a reef and
grounded oh Iul"hra Island
Almost a record In ~ luck was held ~
the steamer Daphne OF Glasgow When
launo he'd on tho CLYDE she turned fur'Ir
drowning 10 men. Sh" was raised ant
repaired. and ON her ma hien voyage went
ashore near belfast she was got "a trl
her owners changed her name 10 Roo
Ths ,h1uAe was useless She founder
In Belfast Tough and SION afterward
broken up aud SOIL for old iron
IN" annals Of the -ea would hart
furnish a paruilel to the amazing run
~ luck suffered by the German bark Plan
Chartered to carry q cargo from MAIat' au.
Mes. to Plymouth. she was blown aSho;
by a hurricane aud her cargo had to n'
discharged and n.stowed AZ last sH-
started. but had not gone far before -rurvy
struck down officers and crew. She W.
> lighted by London steamer, who len
her navigating officer and her own e ap'a
and both mates diei soon afierWar'
Eventually she reached Queenstown, Wher.
A new captain took charge. lie r"ceivc
orders from two different agents To tax.
the vessel 10 Liverpool and Havre reSpe'
lively While he he~iiatcd two firms So
NJ claims To her cargo and the Planet Was
attached Later she was further arrested
for salvage ~ the suit ~ the owners 81 'he
London steamer. IL wnS months before
tho various claims were settled.