The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-08
big SHIP ASHORE
OFF JERSEY COAST
British Frcightcr Queen Louise
Lies BrOadside On and
Deep in Sand.
BREECHES BUOY Is RIGGED
Three Boys Taken Off-Wreck.
ers and Life Savers Stand
BY Till Wind Shifts.

The British freight steamship Queen
Louise. from Swansea. with a large cargo
made up mostly OF tin. while cropping
toward port in dense fog poked her
forefoot into "A sandbar off Manasquan. on
the Jersey coast, at o'clock yesterday
morning. The life savers Of Manasquan
station shot line over her. breeches
buoy was rugged and three apprentices.
Ernest Low. Lionel Harrison and Cyril
Punt, were sent ashore to communicate
with the freighters agents here. The boys
said the Queen Louise had been In fog
four days and had been sailing by dead
reckoning. capt Nc Donald was unaware
Of the nelruess of the Jersey shore until
he ran onto the bar
The queen Louise is equipped with wire
less and she sent through the air word OF
her plight. The revenue cutter ltasca re-
sponded. arriving within hailing distance
of the freighter at II 80 A. NJ, but could
do nothing for her. as she was high up
on the bar.
Capt. Lougs,reet of the life savers, who
took trip to the Queen Louise by the
brooches buoy. reported that she had not
taken In any water. Capt. Mcdonald urged
his agents TO send tugs Immediately. say
ing that his ship could be saved only by
prompt assistance.
The Merritt Chapman Wrecking Com
pany sent its steamer Commissioner to the
Queen Louise and 1t WAS intended to make
an effort TO float the stranded vessel at
high tide last night. But late in the after
noon the wind, which had been blowing
from the northeast, shifted to the west
and the sand began filling in around the
queen Louise as she settled until late
last night she was ten feet in the sand
bruadside of the beach and heading south
The wreckers said they would not be
able to get the ship on until the wind
shifted back To the east So as TO bring
the water in and carry the sand away.
The officers OF the Commissioner, which
is anchored half mile out went in ia /,
moturboat last night and had a conference
with Capt. Mcdonald on the Queen
Louise. After the conference 1t was said
that probably no attempt would be made
to release the ship until Monday. Mean
while the wreCking steamer will stand By
and the life savers Will keep guard ON
the beach to give aid II the position Of
the Queen Louise should become danger
Gus.
The ship lay with her full length on the
sand last night. with the sea calm as n
pond There appeared to Ice no immediate
danger to the vessel or her skipper and
crew
The boys who came ashore denied re-
ports that there had been mutny on the
Queen Louise. They said that for three
days and nights the fog had been So
thick that 1t was impossible to take
reckonings and that the sounding instru-
ments had been lost overheard Ernest
Low said positively that the light at
Sea Girt was not burning when the ship
struck. although he saw II burning some
time later on.
The boys said that Capt. Mcdonald had
| become anxious about the vessels posi-
| ton and had sent word to the engine
| room five minutes before the ship struck
| to shut of the engines, as he was going
| to anchor until the fog lifted.
The apprentices were somewhat put gu,
| because the skipper had told them tina,
| the work on stranded ship was n job
| for men only. They did not leave III,
freighter voluntarily, they said, but were
ordered to do So