Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-05-19
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Some Long Sea Voyages
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sauntered into the channel with a
change Of wind and signaled of Prawie
Point, 1876 days out from Astoria Bar,
| without having once reported. To-
the nautical perception the sea is full
of such lonely craft, battering their
way round the Horn through a re-
gion of almost perpetual gales, or
;dIing in the doldrums, to the irrita-
ton of their dispirited crews, who
only find partial consolation in the
fact that each and every flap OF
the mainsail means half crown out
of the owners pocket and a CORES
ponding addition to their own hard
earned pay.
Within the experience of the deep
sea sailor such passages are nothing
unusual, particularly on the outward
voyage to the Pacific, when Cape Horn
has to be weathered and it's prevail
ing westerly winds won through. On
March 2, 1910, the four-masted bark,
Invernesshire sailed from Hamburg,
gound for Santa Rosalia, in the Gulf
of California During a passage which
Included such incidents as her tempo
rary abandonment by her crew in the
Idread of her laundering, she was fore
ed to put into the Falklands to reflt
and sailed agaan on her interrupted
voyage on September 81 From that
time she was neither seen or heard
of until she arrived safely at her desCi-
nation on February 2, 1911, 33S days
out from her original port of depar-
ture.
The voyage of the Inyernesshire al
most compares with the performances
of the cumbersome craft of earlier nav
igators, except no doubt that it was a
tedious passage, not enlivened by en-
counter with carracks laden with pep
per from Malabar, of which the King
of Spain was owner. On November 49,,
1887, the Desire, under command Of
, Thomas Cavendish, gentleman Of
Suffolk, set sail from the headlands
of California for the Channel.
AT break of day on June 8, of the
following year, she fell in sight of the
, Island of St. Helena; on July the
vessel crossed the line. and after hold
ing the brave trade winds to the limit
of 40 degrees north latitude, recover
ed the long wished for port of Ply
mouth on September I, 1888. Not much
better could be expected from the
: ships and their equipment
b The sailing master of the Desire
: thought it worthy of record that run
5 ming merrily before the wind under all
- sail she could carry his vessel COM
passed 40 miles between noon and
noon, boast which would expose the
modern shipmaster to the derision Of
2 his companions in every shipchandler' 5
= shop of the ports he frequented.
- Among some extraordinary voyages
< made by deep sea sailing craft within
' recent years there may be mentioned
- that of the Beacon Rock, engaged on a
short coastal trip between two Aus
tralian ports After all hope of her
safe arrival had been abandoned she
0 turned up at Talcahu anO, Chile, some
L $4,000 miles from her intended destina-
ton. Being in light trim and conse-
9 uuently with no grip on the water,
t she had been unable to make progress
against a persistent head wind, and
her master had been compelled to
square yards and make fair wind of
), it across the broad Pacific.
a Another large four-masted bark, the
Butesshire, had the remarkable eX-
t perience last year of circling around
= the MINDLESS Gulf of Panama like a
circus horse until she was obliged 10
put back. 90 days out and short of
provisions, to her port of departure.
4 1t may however, be an eXaggeration
that the lighthouse keepers in the gulf
- fell into the habit of regulating their
e calendars by her appearance.