The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-07-07
SCHOONER RAMS
INTO STEAMSHIP
VESSELS COME TOGETHER OFF
NEW JERSEY COAST DUR
ING DENSE FOG.
PASSENGERS IN PANIC
BoATs DRAW OFF. AND AFTER AS
CERTAINING EXTENT OF DAM
AGES. BOTH or THEM MAKE
NEW YORK PORT.
PASSENGERS IN PANIC

NEW YORK. July s.---The giant
FIVE masted schooner Margaret Has
keil, flying light. hound from Ports
mouth to Baltimore, glided through
fog about thirty-five miles off Ahse-
com. y. J.. on. Saturday afternoon
when her skipper. Captain Mckeon.
heard the fog blasts of what seemed
to him To be a liner close aboard.
Subsequent events showed that he
had guessed right. She was the Lam
port and Holt steamship Verdi. from
South American and West Indian
ports. for New York. The Haskell
is an impressive ship with all her
lower sails set and that is the way
Captain Penrice and some Of the ass
passengers OF the Verdi saw her a
few minutes later. She had fair
wind. also she had the right OF way.
which meant that the Verdi must steer
clear OF her.
Try to Clear.
pismissing altogether their sea
rights the two shippers made strong
efforts to clear each other. What
happened aboard the liner was told
ny Captain Penrice. 1t was ass +.
NJ. when he got an indistinct out
line, ghostly. of big sailing craft.
He gave prolonged blast of his
whistle and slowed down. The vision
vanished in the mist, Later Captain
Penrice heard walls of a fog horn on
his port bow and again the big fore
and after hove in view. this time
CONTINUOUSLY revealing herself in all
the glory of her tall spars and belly
ing sail.
The heart OF the verdis skipper
jumped up into his throat. and he
put his helm hard to port and sig
nailed to the engine room for full
speed ahead. 1t looked for a sec
ond or so as IL the two ships were go
ing to meet head-on. His only hope
was to receive the massive jib boom
of the Haskell at a point where 1t
would do the least damage to ship
and passengers. The Haskell also
made an effort TO clear, but big SAIL
ing craft are sluggish.
Jib Boom Spears Verdi.
The way of the schooner was but
little checked when the jib boom
Ispeared the Verdfeabaft the mainmost
smashing the small emergency life
boat and ripping out as IL swept aft
a big steel lifeboat carrying away
forty feet OF rail IN the upper deck
and staving the side of the after
house.
The shock of the ship caused a
momentary panic among the second
cabin PASSENGERS and there WAS some
screaming. but nobody was hurt
aboard the Verdi. The Verdi stopped,
stood by and blew her whistle and
lowered a lifeboat to search for men
from what the Verdis officers thought
surely would be a wrecked vessel.
The lifeboats crew could find no one
and returned to the ship.
Offer OF Help Declined.
After clearing away some Of the
wreckage and Verdi started steaming
in circle to find the schooner and
offer help. At 4.25 the Verdi sight
ed the Haskell with her jib boom and
bow spri. gone and steamed under
her storm asking II she wanted as
sistance.
A confident voice came up from the
Haskell. mo; we can make New York
all right" And she would have done
so but found that Uncle Sans revc-
nue. cutter, the Mohawk. had been
told about her plight by the wireless
of the Verdi and found her ahd lowed
her to the neighborhood of the hook,
where the tug Geneva hitched on to
her and brought her In. Besides los
ing her. jib boom and bowsprit she
has big hole in her port bow and has
lost all chr headgear - II will take
the Verdi seven days to get herself
in ship shape.
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