New-York tribune., 1910-02-16
THE NINA SIGHTED
SEEN OFF MONTAUk
LAST SUNDAY.
Uha7eback's Skipper Says
Missing Nouol Tug Ap-
peored 44H Right.

Newport News, Va, Feb 15,-Bound
up the coast for Boston with staSsaii
rigged on the forward derrick post the
little naval tug Nina, which has neen
missing since February s, was sighted at
. o'clock last Sunday afternoon of Mon
tauk Point, Long Island, by the whale
back steamer Bay View, which arrived
here to-day from Searsport, Me
CAPTAIN Gu n1ings of the Bay View
SAYS that the Nina apparently was All
right. that she flew no distress signals.
and that as he did not then know or the
anxiety about her safety he merely sa-
Juted the tug and continued on his
voyage
Although he did not notice parucu-
1srlv. CAPTAIN Cummings thinks that the
Nina was proceeding under steam. ana
was merely using the stsysail as an aux
iIisrv. there being a strong wind olo"-
ing 11r the coast at the time 1t is pos
sibIe. however, that the vessels engine
was disabled and that she was beating
I'D the coast under sail.
T, the opinion Of Captain Cummings,
the Nina nut into the Delaware Break
water for shelter on the night Of sun
day. February s, and remained there un-
Ill fair weather set in last Saturday.
The tug was last sighted of fenN1ck
Island. Md, not far from the Breah-
water, and shipping men here are IN
clined to credit Captain Cummings S
theory.
Shippers say it is nothing unusual for
vessels TO lie in behind the BreakUater
four or five days without reporting, ana
this. possibly, is what the Nina did
CAPTAIN Cummings also reports pass
ing the scout cruiser Salem off the coast
of New Jersey The cruiser was steam
ing almost at full speed, but did not
communicate with the Bay View.
At the rate of speed she was max
ing when he passed her. Captain Cum
r1lings figures that the Nina should reach
Boston either tonight or early tomor-
row
Newport, r l. Feb. 15.-That the
naval tug Nina is not in Block Island
Sound nor in the immediate adjoining
waters of Long Island Sound and Vine
Gated tonight when the torpedo de-
stroyer Lamson returned here from a
tWenty-four hour cruise in those waters
without word OF the much sought boat.
The Lamson left here early last even
ing and in her search for the Nina thor
oughly covered Block Island Sound,
cruising cast and west and securing the
waters on the ocean side of Block Island.
Passing vessels were spoken, but none
had sighted the Nina.
Boston. Feb 15.-No word of the
Nina. reported to have been seen off
Montauk Point last Sunday, was OBJ
tanned tonight by inquiry at coast
uoints between this city and Block
Island. and the wireless stations had
no information as to her whereabouts.
trace of the little tug Nina and her crew OF
thirty-two men was practically abandoned
hv officials of the Navy Department today,
and they decided, unless some tangible clue
should be discovered before tomorrow
morning, to give up the search.
The Louisiana and the Salem in the zone
where it was thought the Nina might have
foundered, reported to-day that the sur
face of the ocean so far offered no evidence
of the missing tug. Fifty-eight hundred
square miles have been surveyed by the
Louisiana according to the wireless report
to the Navy Department.