New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-07
TRIED TO HELP VESSEL
THAT RAN DOWN HIS OWN
Captain PenriCe of Verdi In
sisted on Finding Schooner
After Fog Collision.
PASSENGERS PRAISE HIM
Say His Tactics Averted Dis
aster = Liner, Raked by
Crash in Fog, Is Saved
by Prompt Action.

| The Lamport & Holt liner Verdi from
/ Brazil and Argentina. which was
rammed by the ive-masted schooner Mar
garet Haskell in fog off the New Jer-
sey coast on Saturday. arrived here yes
terday and landed her passengers at Pier
: -, Brooklyn. She was raked aft on the
/ port side from mainmast to the stern.
distance of about forty feet, and two big
: lifeboats were swept into the sea by the
/ schOoners bowsprt.
! According to the passengers who were
on deck at the time of the collision. both
4 vessels might have been lost had not
| Captain Penrce started at full speed
when the Haskclrs bow doomed up out
Of the mist. The skipper had ported his
/ helm when he first heard the two blasts
1 from the schooner's horn. and the Verdi
/ was running off TO starboard when the
crash came. With his helm already over,
| Captain Pcnrice sent his engines at fell
| speed ahead which averted right angle
crash amidshIps and allowed only a side
wipe OF the schOoner's bowsprit along his
| port quarter
| When the vessel locked Yesterday the
| saloon passengers crowded about Captain
! Pcnricc. congratulated him on his sea-
manship and thanked him for getting
! them safely out Of serious situation.
When II was suggested by an officer
that the schooner was perhaps all right
| Captain Penricc replied: I'm going after
! She may be leaking, and don't want TO
| have them lost"
! He kept after the schooner until he
! found her the second time and was as
| surcd by the mate that the vessel was
/ not badly injured.
at l2i7 p. m. on Saturday. said Cap
| tain Pcnr,ce. I'VE ran into fog We stood
/ by and the fog signals were started. At
| 2:55 D. m 7 heard two blasts Of a horn
Of the port bow slowed my engines and
put her hard to port. II was very thick
at this time. At 2:56 p. m l sighted a
schooner two degrees of the port bow
and instantly sent the engines at full
speed ahead. The helm was still hard to
port At 2.j7 2. m. the schooner hit us
| II had not put the Verdi ahead at full
speed she would have crashed into us
| forward and done lot OF damage 10 US
and to herself As ii was. she hit US
| abreast Of the port main rigging and
carried away two boats and davits.
AS she dropped aft into the fog I
| stopped and stood by. II those fellows
were hurt or in need Of assistance I did
| not want to leave them alone. At 3 80
| p. m. we sighted her, but she drifted
away. ! manpuvred until 4:25 p m,
when | sighted her again. this time get
! ting close I'm under her stern. The mate
/ said ne could make port without assist
/ nncc"
! The Verdi's deck at the port quarter
vas Uttered with debris when she got in
Yesterday Forty feet Of rail were car
/ rled away. and part Of steel storehouse
vas torn by the crash. An emergency
/ boat was lifted from its checks on the
roof Of the storehouse and hurled into the
sea. The schooners splntered boom and
/ gear raked aft to the emergency wheel
house. and pounding along the roof
( ripped out lifeboat which had a capacity
| for ffty-seyen persons.
! The Verdi was not damaged below her
deck She will sail az scheduled on
/ Ittty 90