The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1913-02-08
ABANDONED SHIP
FOUND IN M|D-SEA
oRfTIsH TANKER PICKS UP NOR,
WE0lAN BARK BUT LOSES
s." HER IN GALE.
NO INDICATION OF CREWS FATE
Graft Was Provlsiened and Rugged
Mystery Parallels Disappearance
Of Crew Of Marie
Celeste.

Newport News, Va, Feb. 6.-Anotha
mystery of the deep, practically parak
telling the unexplained disappearance Of
the crew OF the schooner Marie Celeste
several years ago. has come to port
here with the British tank steamer,
Romanian.
-. Found Vessel Jan. -.
On Jan. 10, churning along 10 days
out from Port Arthur and near the
Azores. she picked up the Norwegian
bark. Remittent. seaworthy. provision.
ed and fully rugged, but without a 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 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 we're
aboard within a few hours of her dis
covery. But nothing ever was heard
of her skipper or crew. The story OF
the Remittent is scarcely les strange.
Remittent Is Sighted.
The Roumanian sighted the Remit
tent in latitude 40 degrees, 80 minutes.
and longitude Il degrees, 80 minutes.
riding heavy swell without hand
to guide her, before freshening
breeze. The hig tank steamers crows
nest Immediately reported her as a
ship out of control and Captain Cha.
ridge set out in pursuit
While the Roumanian was coming
apon her the Remittent. with tiller
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 and
holystoned to a glise~ white. bore
the marks of man. there was
nothing to explain the d. 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 lockfast places we're undis.
tur',sds he. charts and:papers were Sc
cure IN her waterbreaker there was .
full supply ofs fresh water salt junk
and biscuits were in her stores. Can.
vas was unfur}ed and her lifeboats
swung and groaned in the davits.
Remlttent Lost.
The Roumanian's boarders bent 4
hawser to the prize and took her in
tow. They bowled along in favorably
good weather for several days and in
the FIRST blow, which they met 100
miles off Cape Henry. Captain Cla-
ridge lost the Remittent. At the end
OF the long hawser the bark plunged
along in the gale. first rearing up as
II she had been stung, and then lying
down as II she were about to die. and
In one of her flights, she snapped the
line and blew away from her rescuer
Twice the Roumanian attempted to
each time they were crushed against
her side by heavy seas and their crews
narrowly escaped drowning.
Captain Claridge finally gave I; up
and made for port. leaving the Remit
tent riding out the gale. No other ship
has reported her since.
The Remittent was commanded by
Captain Torgersen and she sailed from
Rio Grande Do Sui on Oct IS for Liv
erpool. She was of 351 tons, com.
paratively small ship and probably
carried. in addition to her master, q
crew Of five or six.
+ Spain Represented at Vatican.