The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-02-20
Mysteries of the Sea.

41ySt&ll(S vi lllS N(ds
BaFk Remittent, Abandoned, Full-rigged
| and Provis:oned a Sign of the
Crew. The Case OF the Marie Celeste.
| The Fate of Sch S. P. Blackburn.
! NEWPORT News, Va, Feb. S. An.
other mystery of the deep, practically
parelleling the unexplained disappear
ance of the crew of the schooner Marie
Celeste several years ago, has come to
port here with the British tank steamer
Roumanian.
On Jan. 10, churning along 10 days out
from Port Arthur and near the Azores,
she picked up the Norwegian bark Re
mittent, seaworthy. provisioned and
fully rugged, but without soul aboard
and no indication of the crew s fate.
The Roumanian, after towing the Re-
mittent to within 100 miles of Cape
Henry, lost her in violent gall.
The Marie Celeste was found at sea
with pot boiling in her galley and her
captains papers on the cabin table and
every Indication that souls were aboard
within a few hours of her discovery. But
nothing ever was heard of her skipper or
crew.
VESSEL RUNNING WILD.
The Roumanian sighted the Remittent
IN lat 40 deg. 80 min., and Ion. q deg.
80 min., riding heavy swell without a
| hand to guide her before a freshenlng
breeze. The big tank steamers crows
nest Immediately reported her as a ship
out of control, and Capt. Claridge set
out in pursuit.
While the Roumanian was coming up
on her the Remittent, with the tlller
banging to and fro and blocks trund-
ling off her decks, was running wild in
dashes and bounds, first to one point of
the compass and then to another
| The Roumanian lowered boats to take
line and capture the bark. After more
than an hours jockeying, during which
the Remittent sailed in swoops and
dashes, now stopping dead, tremble in
the eye of the wind and then bounding
away to the cracking of what canvas
was unfurled, the pursuing small boat
finally caught her coming around broad
side on and boarded her.
TOW LOST IN THE GALE.
| Her deck planks, once swahbed and
holy stoned to a glistening white, bore
the marks of many feet, but there was
nothing to explain the disappearance of
her master and crew.
In her cabin some odds and ends rolled
in the corners with the rolling of the
ship; the lock-fast places were undis-
turbed; her charts and papers were Sc
cure.
| In her water breaker there was full
supply of fresh water; salt junk and
biscuits in her stores. A mainsai and
two jibs were snugly furled and her
lifeboats swung and groaned in the day.
its.
The Roumanian's boarders bent a
hawser to their prize and took her in
/ tow. A few hours later the pair ran into
gales which lost the tank her consort,
but not until after a valiant fight to save
her, and brought the steamer into port
here with the scars of red rust and salt
of rough experience to show for her
work.
LEFT Rio GRANDE DE SUI.
The steamer and her salvage bowled
along together in fairly favorable wealth
err for several days and in the blow,
which they met 100 miles off Cape Henry,
Capt Claridge lost the Remittent.
At the end of the long heavy hawse1
the bark plunged along in the gale, first
rising up as if she had been stung anG
then lying down as if she were about tc
die and in one of her flights she snapped
the line and blew away from her rescuer
Twice the Roumanian. ATTEMPTED te
launch boats to carry a new line anc
each time they were crushed against hel
side by heavy seas and their crews mar.
rowly csc ped drowning. Capt. Claridge
finally gave it up and made for port
leaving the Remittent riding out the gale,
No other ship has reported her since.
The Remittent was commanded by
Capt. Torgerson and she sailed from Rio
Grande de Sui Oct. 25th for Liverpool
She was Of 35l tons, a comparatively
small ship and probably carried in add
ton to her master crew of five of six
THE SCH. S. P. BLACKBURN.
WASHINGTON, FEB. S. The fate Of
the schooner S. P. Black burn of Bath
Me-, still is mystery. The revenu,
cutter Onondaga today reported the yes
sci nowhere in the vicinity where sh,
was last seen-240 miles east of Cap,
Hatteras. The Onondaga, used all he
coal in weeks search and was obliged
to return today to replenish her supply
The cutter Seminole is still searching.
When the Blackburn was dismaste(
by violent gales week ago, the steame
} Tiverton rescued nine men who hat
jumped overheard. Two who could no
swim remained on the Blackburn. There
was one small boat on the davits of thu
schooner. The steamer Esperanto board
. ed her few days ago and reported hel
abandoned and the small boat missing
1t is thought the two men took the boa
and the only hope seems to be that they
were picked up by passing vessel.