Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-02-14
FIND DESERTED SHIP
BRITISH TANKER PICKS W N0n'
WEGIAN BARK BUT Iooeo
HER IN GALE.
NO INDICATION OF CREWS FATE
Craft Was Provisioned and Riggeo-
Mystery Parallels Disappearance
of Crew Of Marie
Celeste.

Newport News, Va. Feb 7.-Anotne:
mystery of the deep, practically parai
leline the unexplained disappearance OF
the crew of the schooner Marie celeste
several years ago. has come 10 pol'
here with the British tank steamer
Roumanian.
Found Vessel Jan. 10.
On Jan. 19, churning along ~ DAYS
ont from Port Arthur and near the
Azores. she picked up the Norwegian
bark, Remittent, seaworthy, provision
ed and fully rugged, but without soul
aboard and no indication of the crew
fate. The Roumanian, after towing the
Remittent to within 100 miles OF cape
Henry. lost her in violent gale.
The Marie Celeste was found at sea
with a pot boiling in her galley and
her captains papers on the cabin table
and every indication that souls were
aboard within few hours of her dis
covery. But nothing ever was heard
OF her skipper or crew. The story OF
the Remittent is scarcely less strange
Remittent Is Sighted.
The Roumanian sighted the Remit
tent in latitude 40 degrees, 30 minutes
and longitude 81 degrees, 30 minutes
riding a heavy swell without hand
to guide her. before a freshenins
breeze. The big tank steamers crow
| nest Immediately reported her as
ship out of control and Captain Cla
ridge set out in pursuit.
While the Roumanian was coming
upon her the Remittent. with tillel
banging to and fro and blocks atrund
ling on her decks. was running wild
in dashes and bounds, first to one
point of the compass and then to an
other.
Decks Bear Footmarks.
Her deck planks, once swabbed ant
| holystoned to glistening white, bore
the marks of many feet. but there wa:
nothing to explain the disappearance
of her master and crew In her cabir
some odds and ends rolled and clinket
in the corners with the rolling of thu
ship, the lockfast places were undis
turbed. her charts and papers were Sc
cure. In her waterbreaker there was ;
! full supply of fresh water. salt junl
and biscuits were in her stores. Can
vas was unfurled and her lifeboat
swung and groaned in the davits.
Remittent Lost.
The Roumanian's boarders bent
hawser to the prize and took her il
tow. They bowled along in favorabl
good weather for several days and il
the first blow, which they met TO-
miles off Cape Henry Captain Cha
ridge lost the Remittent. At the en-
of the long hawser the bark plunge
along in the gale, first rearing up a
if she had been stung. and then lynn
down as if she were about to die. an
in one of her flights. she snapped tn
line and blew away from her rescuer.
Twice the Roumanian attempted t
launch boats to carry a new line an
each time they were crushed agains
her side by heavy seas and their crew
narrowly escaped drowning.
Captain Claridge finally gave it u
and made for port. leaving the Remi
tent riding out the gale. No other shi
has reported her since.
The Remittent was commanded b
Captain Torgersen and she sailed fro1
Rio Grande Do Sui on Oct. 25 for Lii
erpool. She was of 351 tons, a con
paratively small ship and probabl
carried in addition TO her master,
crew of five or six.