Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-17
WHALING BRIG SULLIVAN
 WRECKED AT FAYAL. Reported Total Loss-Ail Hands Saved-Has Norwich and New Lon- den Owners,


 By eablegram to New Bedford Tuesday night word was received that the whaling brig Sullivan of Somerset, capt. William Hegarty, was wrecked in Fayal harbor Tuesday, Oct. IA. The caolegram states the vessel is a total loss. but most of the oil and all hands were saved. The brig is valued with her gear at $10,000
 Several Norwich and New London men are stockholders in the brig.
 The message. which is in English instead of the regulation code, reads:
 ''Fayal, Oct. IA
 Brig Sullivan totally wrecked today inside harbor. All hands saved. Little oil on board.''
 The cablegram puzzles the owners If the Sullivan was inside the harbor they ask, why was she lost? And what was she doing at Fayal?
 The whaler had on board 1,150 bar rels of oil, and had shipped home TOO pounds of bone-valued at the present low market price at about $1000. She was to call al Las Palmas, Canary Islands, to discharge her oil and take on supplies. Why she turned into Fayal instead and prepared to ship her oil home from there is not known
 One of the owners of the Sullivan stated yesterday that the vessel did not call at one port of call on her schedule. The vessel could not be in sured because of her age. She has a record as a lucky craft and has slowed away in her time many thousand bar rels of oil. In 1908 for instance, un- der command of Captain Hegarty she docked at Providence having In 27 months taken over 3,700 barrels of oil, valued at more than $50,000, thus pay ing her owners handsome dividends. On the present voyage she was report ed at Fayal on Sept 25 last. She left port June g. 1912
 Captain Hesarty Chief Owner.
 Captain Hegarty himself is her prin- cipal owner. and unless almost all her oil is saved will be most heavily hit by the loss. More than half interest in the vessel is his. The principal owners are: Capt. William Hegarty Cover half), Briggs & Beckman, Will liam G. Shell, P. D. Horton of Phila- delphia, Lawrence Cushman. formerly president of Shell & Simpson. The seriousness of the loss seems to be largely dependent upon the amount of oil saved. Oil is now worth $15 a barrel and her full cargo of 1,160 bar rels was therefore worth $17.25o. If $I000 be added as the probable value of the bone, this gives her total catch as valued at $1S.250. If most of this is saved, the owners should come out pretty nearly even from the venture.
 Built AZ Years Ago.
 The little craft was built some 47 years ago. She was launched at Goldsboro, Me, in 1866. For years she sailed between Boston and the Gold Coast of Africa in the merchant trade, carrying out many thousand barrels of Medford rum and general supplies for the traders on the desotaIe beaches of the Gold Coast, and bring ing home various cargoes picked up at the Azores or West Indies.
 The vessel was sold some years ago to the Holy Ghost and Us society, religious sect at Shiloh Me, by John at society held the brig for a short time selling her in turn to the New Eng land Whaling company of Norwich, who converted the old square rigger into a whaler. The late pr. George R. Harris was prominently identified with the company and the brig sailed from here on a whaling voyage on June 19, 190S
 Capt. William Hegarty took com mand of the Sullivan in 1905. Previous to this year he was in the northern whaling business. He had a series of unsuccessful voyages and, giving up the bone bearing whale business, he came east to try for sperm. 4
 He induced some capitalists to pur- 1 chase with him the brig Sullivan and fit her out at New Bedford for sperm whaling, sperm whales having rapidly increased during the last 25 years be- cause of the small whaling fleet. The vessel sailed in May. 1905, on her first voyage from that port.
 Captain Hegarty's old luck for a time chung to him. Then his crew were taken down with the smallpox, and the vessel became for month a veritable pestship. In a South Ameri- can port he managed at last5to stamp out the disease, shipped there a new crew, and inside of six months had filled every cask in the vessel and sent the oil home. Two months later he took 1000 barrels on a cruise off the coast of Africa. This made his total catch of 3.240 barrels of oil, or more than 135 barrels per month.
 In the most oily days of whaling 100 barrels a month was considered excellent luck With oil worth from $15 to SIS a barrel. this made his