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and out of the way lest they impede the efforts OF
the mariners engaged in attempting to save the
vessel But the has lost nothing of its
strength, its capricousness or its malignancy and
when the unexpected happens and the ship strikes
1t is. unfortunately. too true that however
staunchly built her skin, the attendant horrors
seldom wanting or the resultant calamity less
direfu than it was in oden days.
Almost all shipwrecks may be regarded in three
aspects-the pathetic, the heroic and the plctur-
esque. The cinematograph has not yet, so Tar as
we are aware, recorded the various phases OF
real shipwreck. The great liner, teemng with
life the microcosm of big city; her people, ex-
pectant of fine and favorable passage, conndent
in the knowledge that those in charge are fully
competent hopeful that everything possible has
been done for their comfort and security; then
the fog or darkness closing in, uncertainty, I'M
easness, the crash, the grinding on the rock
There follow the passionate sweep of the seas and
the complaining echo Of the surf, accompanied
perchance, by the raging OF the WIND ana the
terrible blast of the rain-flled tempest Then
tragedy, too frequently in sight of hundreds on
shore who would be willing helpers but are able
to render little or assistance. A Jew hours
later and rattle of wreckage the storm-strewn
beach is all that tells the fearful tale let photog
raphy can aid in the realization OF such events
and as the photographs reproduced with TINS ar
ticle show can more especially when the deserted
hulk is for time preserved indicate, if only in
adequately, the fury, the misery anu the oesoia1e
ness of shipwreck.
When fire is added to the other perils. then the
spectacle becomes magnificent in its horrors. De-
scribing the burning of the Queen Charlotte, of
10 guns the flagship of Lord Keith, of Leghorn,
IN March 1900 spectator tells how the ship be-
came enveloped in black clouds of sufocating
smoke from which here an3 there CLEANS OF
,urid fame arose. Then the fire became more
vivid rose higher and higher. grew brighter and
brighter crept quietly bur surely, onward and
inward enveloping the masts, the yards and all
the delicate tracery of rigging and spars. The
boat, ON the booms, the quarterback, the poop IN
one direction and the forecaste, bowsprit and
r,asts in the other each in turn enwrapped
IN flames amid the pickering of which the dark
bodies of the gallant officers and men stood out
distinctly as they attempted to smother the ire
with blankets and hammocks, or poured streams
of water upon the burning parts. in spite on their
almost superhuman efforts, the flames rolled on
making the destruction of the ship inevitable,
while to add to the striking effect the guns. as
they became hot exploded. threatening the ap-
nroacb of those who would have gone to the sue
chr Of the crew At length the fire reached the
magazines and the vessel blew up. sending
dustx column of debris and wreckage high into
tba air All that was left unburnt Immediately
sunk down by the stern; but when the ponderous
contents Of the hold had been washed away, the
ship 3@aeT-ls seen 70 emerge @iAlos' Hei