Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-04-08
Little Food, No Fresh Water
and The Men Exhausted.
Terrible Experience, 6eaien and
BuIfeied by Fierce Gales.
Picked Up and lowed into Boston
by Revenue Cutter Gresham.

Boston. April An unusual tale OF
hardship at sea was that told today
by Captain Robert Rickson OF the
schooner j. Manchester Haynes, when
the long missing vessel arrived here In
tow of the revenue cutter Gresham -
days out from brunswick, Ca, carry
ing battered, bedraggled and almost
famishcd crew. There was scarcely @
bit of food, and not a drop of fresh
water aboard and the decks were al
most awasi. Captain Rickson had not
slept more than three hours a day dur
ing the past month, his men said,
Mate Carroll was confined to his bunk
by injuries sustained several days ago.
all of the crew We're in need of food,
and several of them bore marks of vi
oi2nce, which the captain said were
the result of blows. There was no
aard feeling in the blows" Captain
itlckson said. but 1 just had to make
them work In order to save our lives
After leaving Brunswick, Ga, Feb.
Is, the Haynes worked her way north
without incident until Cape Hatteras
was reached three days out. The
Haynes was then caught in a north
wester of hurricane velocity. which
drove her before it half way to the Ca
nary islands. according to Captain
Isickson's reckoning. With the SUBJ
sidence of this gale the Haynes was
headed north again, running into a
southeaster which carried her into the
Gull stream, when another gale..i' Il
little east of north, forced the Haynes
again TO turn and run. Her seams
opened and within two days the wa
ter had gained so rapidly that the mon
worked almost breast up in water anu
the donkey engines gave out with the
failure of the fire.
From this time ON every man aboard.
exoent Mate Carroll. who was confln-
ed to his bunk by illness, labored in
cessantly to rid the vessel of water.
Donkey Engineman Moses L. Wright.
colored. of Wilmington, Del, was up
with Captain Rickson five days and
nights without sleep. The other mem
bers of the crew insisted on snatctlinr
three or four hours sleep day. 1t was
shortly after this that physical force
WAS necessary to keep the exhausted
men 1t their work. The same summary
treatment was resorted to to Inject
ability INTO them. But when they ar
rived today. thanking the skipper for
pe'ience with their lives, they had no
hard words for Captain Rickson
AL this time the vessel was being
driven north. and the end of the gale
found the Hayne 600 miles from Cape
Sable, y. S. The Haynes was then
caught in another gale. during which
she was almost capsized, only the loss
of her deckload of lumber enabling
her to bring up true. Beating his way
south. Capt Rickson brought the
Haynes to George Fishing Banks. OFT
Cape Cod. last Saturday, without food.
| water or kerosene. Here Boston fish.
supplies.
The Haynes stood outside Boston
| harbor three times. trying to enter,
but adverse winds drove her away.
Three days ago the mainsail down-
haul gave way and Mate Carroll was
forced to leave his bunk, i'll as he was.
and try to make the sheet fast But the
vessel jibed and he was struck over
| the head and knocked senseless to the
deck. The Haynes reached the outer
| harbor last night, but was driven awaN
again. On approaching the harhor
again today the Gresham went to her
aid and brought her to a wharf here.
Among those who greeted Capt.
Rickson was his bride of about tiye
| months. She had accompanied him on
| their honeymoon trip last November In
the schooner Cox and Green. which
Capt. Rickson was forced to abandon
| in mid-ocean.