The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-11-07
YANKEES LOSE YANKEE BOAT
DEER ISLANDERS BiCk FROM
IN ERPOOL AS CONSt rs MEN.
Thsy Had tn Dt,e for Their Dinners
In ths Cabin of the wAterissgsd
Florence Leland - One steamship
wsuidn't Help Seawoins Briton mid,

/ fioStnce Leianu - one stfouisnip
Wouldn't Help Seaxsins Briton MD,
! Capt. George l.. Holden. master OF the
three masted truly YANKEES schooner
Florence Leland. and his crew OF four
men. every mothers son ike the skipper
natives n D.er Isle. where they make
real American tars vet. arrived Yesterday
as Consul's men aboard the White Star
liner Cedric. from Liverpool. feeling
mighty blu" over the loss, Of their little
ship. To save which they made a long
and gallan, fight. Tho skipper Is tall.
black eyed and just bit demonstraiive
for a Yankee. Tears filed his eyes when
he finished thus the warn OF his fight for
his ship: And I wouldn't have left 10 |
was in tbs condition | am in now
Tho names of the shippers shipma.es
and fellow islanders. tho like Of which
you seldom SEES in the crews OF American
craft. oven in the coastwise trade. are
Bartlett Robbins. mate. and Able Searnen
Including the coOk). Richard A. Gross.
Myron n. bow and Charles A. Vincent
Thew brought the Florencs Leland out OF
st. Martha's Bav. Nova Scotia. laden with
laths and spruce lumber for Philadelphia.
on Octobar 9. A northw ester that came
tl NslS ulknl NflNE seas thai
opened the schooner = seams forward. and
although all hands worked all day and
night at the pumps she was watsrlogged
and unmsnageabie on the morning Of
, October 10. The gale had increased and
the skipper and crew took OF all sail in a
! jinv and let her stagger down the blast
under bare poles. While she was scud-
ding seas boarded her over the quarter
aud swept oil the deck load Of laths. carry
! ing all III. ships rails with IL.
The cabin was flooded and all the pro-
visions either under water OF destroyed
| For FIVE days the schooner driftsd to
the southeast The shrouds were mighty
unsteady and preventsr stays were rugged
TO keep her wabbly sticks in. The men
were suffering from hunger and thirst.
and all the water butts had been swept
into tn. sea But there were canned
goods down in tho flooded cabin. and
! tn. men took turns diving for some
J They brought up some dried canned beef
and seasoaked hardtack and can OF
vegetables.
/ The gale had moderated a bit. but the
-ea was still high when on the morning
OF October - before daylight they saw
the lights Of a steamship They filed a
half barrel with tar and oakum and soaked
IL with kerosene aud stuck IL ont on an
+ iron rod from the quarterback SO IL would
! not burn III. ship and lighted II.
The gr. NJ Hare stopped IN" stranger
and h. Dor. down on rh. Leland. Some
one a-k I'D through a megaphone IN broken
English w a, - the matter capt
Holden shouted back that he wanted
assistance. his provisions having been
destroyed and his water gone The
stranger CROSSED his bow-. nearly running
him down and stood on his Cours.
TIL. skipper at that period had de
clCisd 20 get a supply Of provisions and
water and make strong effort To bring
the battered ship into haven somewhere
he. had lost his Instruments and did not
know exactly where h. might he hut
was sure thar he Wa ~ III" Gulf Stream.
and wanted to work O,;t ri II. n IL would
send him 10 III. noTrhrI~'
4 north"asrsrly gale followed the
Northwestern and blew hard two day-
The foremost was carried away at the
step and the schooner was sinitten other
wis., when. on October 10 the British
steamship Commodore. Capt Bass. from
New Orleans so Liverpool. hove in sight
ANOTHER storm was brewing and the
Commodore could not lower a boat
All that the schooner had was a motor
yawi. the motor Of which had been p,.t
out Of commission. The Deer Isle skipp..r
wanted TO know II IL wer" not possible.
10 tow the Leland Iapt. Haas answered.
I The best l can do IL tO take you OF
and I'll do II IL have 10 stay here "A week.
Capt Holden and h,- men had not had
NOR. than few hours sleep in Eight
days ard they We're pretty weak and
almost faniished 80 they lowered tn
motor yawl and driftsd down 10 the
Commodore. which mad hove To a ships
length to'leeward. Lines were tossed to
, me five Yankees and they were hauled
to tn. rope ladder through IN. sea and
taken aboard one by one. treated finely
and landed at Liverpool
Capt Holden said that when h. took
hold Of the tackle of the dsvit fall to
leave his little ship he felt mi ghtv gloomy.
rejecting that IN all his twenty-five years
as "A master. or since he was IL. he had
never before had mishsp He was the
last man TO leave and soft the wheel The
American flag vas flying in the mizzen
rigging union down and all the -ail she
had set was "a double reei.d spankar
She has not been sighted since she was
abandoned. but she will float long on her
cargo