Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-03-05
EDWARD
SEWALL TOLD
in DETAIL
IBy Latest MALL

NEW YORk--The big white Jour
master schooner, Edward Sewall.
commanded by Captain r. Quick from
the day she was launched at the Sc
wall yards, Bath. has completed her
repairs at the port OF Bahai Blanca,
Argentina, and resumed her trip
around the Horn, according to adyiees
received by d. B. Dearborn & Co. OF
No. s Bridge street She was struck
about 80 degrees south OF the equator
and in the longitude OF 90 by one OF
those dreaded fierce. cold, dry winds
from the pampas Of South America,
which with great violence break from
the southwest The first, and usual,
warning Captain r. Quick had OF the
approaching pampero was a black
cloud rising from one quarter, and can
opying the sky almost to the zenith.
; The black face In the heavens had
appeared with great suddenness as
the ship was sailing with the breeze
from off shore on her beam. All hands
were called TO strip down, but before
the 81 seamen could gain the foot
ropes from the weather rigging to
make fast, beginning with the fore
the combination bowsprit
and jibboom was thfeshing the boil
ing mess beneath the forefoot and
dolphin striker and the outer jib had
caught a slap of the pampero and
burst into tatters. Mr. lube, the mate,
in this emergency had gone forward,
leaving the captain on the quarter.
deck. In themselves the flying rags
were not menace, but they looked
bad and must be made shipshape and
slowed fast. -.
Delay your downhaul and stow
away the lib" roared the mate.
Three hands out on the jibboom now!
Lively! Stow that outer jib!'
Shippers Son Good Sailor
Quick by nature as well as name
the shippers son, Jack Quick, a lad
In his teens, who first went to sea on
the SevalI when he was child in
skirts, made his way inward from the
windwand side of the foreyard. He
grasped the fore topmast stay above
his head and came down on the run,
sliding with hands and legs, to the
heel of the spike. He was followed
by Dirk Jensen and Ivan Schelin, who
came down. however, by the leeward
rigging. Clinging tight. now out, now
in, now up, now down, gasping for
breath and shaking off the water and
spray, they passed the gaskets be-
tween them and made fast, slowing
the precious rags. 1t was splendid
exhibition of sailoring on down East
square rigger.
As they finished their good job, the
schooner, which had been prancing
like a nervous colt, gave the might
est dive of all, plunging the sharks
tail on the tip of the iibboom deep
into a. yawning abyss II was only
fun for Jack Quick, who chung like
a sailor to the manner born to the
handrope Dirk and Ivan were good
sailormen and water dogs. too, but
Dirk's hold was knocked loose. He
felt his grip released. The surge was
strangling him and he believed him.
self gone. With jerk that caused
him to cry out with pain, the jibboom
shot up out of the abyss, pulling him
through the water and making him
swallow a lot of the salt sea- He
found himself dangling above the
swell. hanging by his wrist, which
had caught. as he was being swept
off and away, in the iron stay running
along the top of the jibboom.
Saved by shlpmates.
]. Jack Quick and Ivan Sehelin were
still hanging fast and shaking the salt
out of their faces and mouths, eyes
and ears. Keen was the pain of the
pinched wrist and hand, but he knew
his life had been saved, for his ship
mates gave him each hand, and he
swung up, climbing upon the bobstay
and eventually gaining the foot and
hand ropes alongside of his compan-
ions and releasing his imprisoned
hand. Ignoring the pain in his wrist,
the Dane now turned to again, going
in over the fo'e's'le head to work with
his shipmates to save the vessels can
vas
>, The interlude between the storms
was brief, and the captain himself
sprang to the wheel to take instant
advantage of such briefest intima-
ton as the wind should give of the
next quarter from which it would at
tack. s5 ta-..1 Ms
Before he could fairly jam up his
wheel the storm jumped upon him
this time from the nor'west, swapping
off his spike bowsprit and jibboom.
:. A rattle of stays and canvas elut.
tered up the fo'c's'le head, making
the foretopgallant and foreroyal masts
under the slackened tension.
Only a moment more and the three
men who had been executing the
mates order would have been car
ried away with the steel spike. With
the last attack the pampero relaxed
it's fury. Decks were cleared. sail sci
gain, and, following a consultation,
the Sewall was headed for Bahia
Blanca, the little port en- the north
shore of the bay of that name.
Nothing more happened save the
sagacious behavior of the ships cat.
which smelled the land before the
sailors. She crawled out as far for.