The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-02-06
STEAMER PICKS up
BARkFULLYRIGGEDi
BUT WITHOUT CREW
UNUSUAL TALE OF MYSTERY
BROUGHT TO PORT.


NEWPORT NEWS. Va, Feb. g.
Another mystery or the deep. practical
ly paraleliing the unexplaiuabIe dis
appearance OF the crew OF the schoon-
er Marie Celeste several years ago.
has come to port here with the Brit
tsh Tank Steamer Roumanian. on
January 10, churninc along ten days
out from Port Arthur and near the
Azores. she picked up the Norwegian
Bark Remittent, seaworthy, provis-
ioned and fully rigged but without n
soul aboard and no Indication OF the
crews fate. The Roumanian, after
towing the Remittent TO within 100
miles of Cape Henry. lost her in q
violent gale.
The Marie Celeste was found at sea
with pot boiling In her gallery and
her captains papers on the cabin ia
BILE and every Indication that souls
were aboard within few hours or
her discovery. But nothing was ever
heard OF her skipper or crew.
The story Of the Remittent Is
scarcely less strange.
The Roumanian sighted the Remit
tent in latitude 40 degrees, 80 minutes
and longitude - degrees, 80 minutes.
riding heavy swell without a hand 10
guide her before "a freshening breeze.
The big tank steamers crows nest i'm
inediatedly reported her as a ship ont
"f control and Captain Claridgc set
out IL pursuit.
Captured After Struggle.
While the Rouamaniau was coming
On her the Remittent with tiller
banging to and fro and blocks
strudling on her decks was running
wild with dashes and bounds. first
TO one point OF the compass and then
10 another. The Roumanian lowered
boats TO a line and captured the bark
After more than an hours jockeyinG
during which the Remittent sailed I'm
sweeps and dashes. now stopping
dead atremble in the eye OF the wind
and then bounding away TO the crack
ling OF what canvass was unfurled.
the pushing small boat finally caught
her coming around broadside on and
boarded her.
Her deck planks, once swabbed and
holystoned to glistening white.
bore the marks OF many feet. but
there was nothing to explain the dis
appearance Of her master and crew
In her cabin. some odds and ends
rolled and clinked in the corners
with the rolling OF the ship: the lock
fast places were undisturbed: her
charts and papers were quite secure
In her water breaker there was a full
supply OF fresh water; salt junk and
nlscultS were In Der stores. A main
sail. and two jibs were snugly furied
and her iifeboats swung and groaned
in the davit.
Lost In Gale
The Roumanian's boarders sent a
hawser To their priZc and took her in
tow. Later the pair ran into
gales which lost the tank her
cnnsort. but not until after "A valiant
fight to save her. and brought the
steamer into port here with the scars
Of red rust ard salt Of rough exper-
ience 10 show for her work
The steamer and her salvage bowled
along together In fairly favorable.
weather for several days and IN the
first blow. which they met 100 miles
off Cape Henry. Captain Claridge lost
the Remittent. At tho end of the
long hawser the bark plunged along i'm
the gale. first rising mp a. o. she had
been stunned and then lying down as
" she were about TO die. and in one
OF her flights she snapped the line
and blew away from her rescuer.
Twice the Roumania attempted to
launch boats TO carry a now line and
each time they were crushed against
her side by heavy seas and their crews
narrowly escaped drowning Captain
Caridgs finally gave II up and made for
port. leaving the Remittent riding out
the gale. No other ship has reported
her since
The Remittent was commanded by
Captain Torgerson and she sailed
from Rio Grande de- Sui on October %
FOR Liverpool. She was Of 35i tons.
comparatively small ship. and car.
ried In addition 10 her master a crew
OF FIVE or six