The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-08-04
SCHOONER GOES ON
POINT SAN PEDRO
James ROIph Wrecked and Will
Probably Be a Total
Loss

The four masted schooner James
Rolph. which left here Tuesday for the
Hawaiian islands, went ashore at 10
o'clock Tuesday under the shadow of
Point San Pedro and will probably be
a total loss. Captain and crew are still
on board and in no danger. Mrs. Olsen,
the captains wife, was brought to this
port yesterday by the tug Defiance.
Mrs. Olsen was the only member of the
ships company who suffered any per-
sonal loss. and that did not occur until
she was jumping ashore yesterday aft
ernoon from the tug, when she lost
the heel of her right shoe. She re-
covered the heel later.
The James Rolph, Captain A Olsen,
with 200 tons of general cargo and
$4,000 feet of lumber, was bound for
the port of Hama After being towed
TO sea Tuesday morning Captain Olsen
made sail and did the best he could to
tack seaward against a wind that was
contrary and uncertain. AS the day
wore on d heavy fog settled down over
the ocean. The wind also lost much of
its force and at 10 o'clock at night Cap
tain Olsen found himself in the break
ers. He tried to wear ship, but it was
plunging in among the rocks on the
top of a high tide. When the tide went
out IL left the Rolph with its bowsprit
over the dry sand and its hull securely
riveted to the beach by big rock that
pierced the bottom just forward OF
amidship.
OWNERS VISIT WRECK
Hind, Rolph & Co. are the mana ging
Owners Of the vessel and James Rolph
Jr., who visited the wreck yesterday,
said:
The captain could see the highlands
back Of the beach, but was deceived
by low fog into approaching too close
TO the shore. He did nots realize this
until he heard the breakers, and then
it was too late. The vessel is ashore
almost on the very spot where the
British ship Dumbarton stranded about
I'VE years ago. In fact, I got on board
the schooner this afternoon by climbing
: out over the steel frames of the Dunn
barton. 1t is extremely doubtful
whether we can get the vessel off. as
there is one big rock through the bot
tom and perhaps two. We are going
to take tugs and lighters there in the
morning, however, and will make a try.
All hands are on board and comfort
able The men have saved all. their
things and are in no danger, but as a
precaution the life saving crew from
the Golden Gate station will stand bv
during the night. Captain Louis Turn
.er, representing the underwriters, went
down yesterday on the Defiance and is
now on board. There is Is feet of wa
ter under the stern and 5 feet under
the bow"
= The James Rolph is vessel of SIS
tons register and was built in 1899 at
Eureka The schooner is valued at
> $4,000 and was insured to the extent
Of about $4,000.
Steamers Crash
SEATTLE, Aug. 2.-The Puget Sound
navigation company's 800 ton steel
steamship Chippewa, bound to Seattle
from Everett, without passengers
crashed into the 100 ton wooden pas
sehger steamship Albion, bound from
Seattle for Port Angeles, off West
Point light, a few miles north of Sc
attic, at midnight last night. and al
most sliced the wooden boat in two
The PROV of the Chippewa cut into
the Albion a dozen feet, and the boats
were wedged together. Nearly all of
the 10 passengers were women. When
the crash came they rushed from their
Etaterooms without dressing and some
became hysterical They were taken on
the Chippewa without misliap. and