The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-24
LIGHTSHIP WITH
is is WRECKED
Vessel Goes to Her Fate in
Last 100 Miles of
Journey.
SIX BODIES RECOVERED
Crew Bringing New Ship
Froia Glasgow May Have
Been Larger.
WERE ALMOST IN HARBOR
Upturned Steamer and Two
Wrecked LifebOats All
That Is Left.
WERE ALMOST IN HARBOR

HALIFAX. ". s.. May 23.-of sixteen
men on the new lghtship Halifax 10.
which went on the ledge near Liscomb
last night, the bodies OF six had been
found late this afternoon. and the search
for the others was still In progress when
darkness made further work impossible.
Llscomb Is a numbering and fishing port
less than 100 miles east OF Halifax and II
was on Crooks Ledge, four miles outside
the anchorage In the harbor. where the
lightship went to her fate with all hands.
The craft had sailed from Glasgow
and two days ago put In at st. Johns,
n. F., on her way to this port. Last
night a heavy sea was running and there
was thick fog. The captain evidently
determined to put into Liscomb for the
night, either for refuge or to take in more
coal. for the bunkers may have been
nearly depleted and a new supply been
necessary to reach Halifax No one lives
to tell why the lightsh!p got on Crooks
Ledge. but she must have been running
for the harbor to strike II.
sees steamer bottom Up.
Boats that put out from Liscomb thi.
afternoon were able through the fog e
make out steamer bottom up on tn,
rocks, and although because OF the heavy
sea they couldn't get close. they wer,
able to make out the name Halifax OF
the craft, half turned over and piled
up high on the rocks Further evidenc,
Of the identity OF the wreck was fur
nished in two lifsboats. smashed. which
were swept on the shore. Other materia
also was cast up. ..
II Is believed In some quarters that ri
though the Crew to operate the lightshi
should number sixteen more than tina
number came over from Scotland on. tn
vessel the extra men being fremen an
engineers used TO operate the ship. TIL
finding OF the ships two lifeboats battere
into fragments by the surf seems to b
proof that the majority II not all OF thos
missing have persisted. No trace OF on
boat however has yet been found. This
boat Is the lightship's dingey. which .
best could carry only two or three men.
News comes from fishermen along II
coast that they heard the whistle OF whi
seemed to be n large steamer all Frida
afternoon and night No big ships ev'
come near the shore and Liscomb Is II
away from the regular trade route. 1t
now believed that the whistle heard
the fishermen was the foghorn OF Il
lightship, the crew OF which. all unfamilii
with the coast and the waters In whi'
they found themselves. were complete
- | and thus In
ploring aid.
Bodies of Firemen.
The bodies OF the six men with Of
exception were judging by the clothi'
upon them, those of firemen or engineer
! All had life belts and they were bad
bruised from battering against the sha
rocks of the reef and shore. They we
found floating in the water by the steam
: Dufferin and boats from the shore. 7
bodies were laid on the single wharf
the harbor awaiting instructions from t
Canadian Government
The Canadian steamer Lady Lauri
=, was ordered to proceed TO Lscomb wi
an undertaken, but this was subsequent
= countermanded and an official at Liscor
WAS ulTtCttu 10 thNc bS "a s"S
rangements. The crew of the lightsf
u was sixteen, but there may besides ha
~ been a direct representative OF the but
ers who were under contract TO deli'
10 her at Halifax to the order OF the
" madam Government for duty as lig
ship at Sambro. the entrance to Halt
y harbor. The name OF her master v
~ Capt. McBeth and his duties and thu
~ of the crew would have been finish
~ in twenty-four hours with the deliv'
of the lightship In Halifax harbor.
I'd A Most Modern Lightship.
rn The llghtship was the most mod
In design that this type OF marine arc
at lecture has produced The lighting to,
~ and some Of the other equipment for
~ work were here ready for installatI
tic The lghtship sailed from Greenock
ur April rs and called at Queenstown. sail
ms from that port on April 20 for Halt
pc The voyage from Queenstown to st. job
90 N. F., at which port the lightship
.r- forced to call on account of depleted {
bunkers, occupied twenty days. Fol
week the lightship was TANNED In the
!. of the Newfoundland coast. There
coal supply was so diminished that W
mt she finally effected passage into
Johns harbor she had only three
tor of coal left In her bunkers. When
cir lishtship reached that port last Sun
ng, she was laid alongside the steamer BE
not venture, from which ship she coaled.
by Tuesday she sailed from st. Johns
lin. Halifax, and the first that was heard
to- her was when the Dufferin this rnorl
APP reported having picked up the bodies
three Of the crew. She was due at +
led fax to-day.
pin The guarantee chief engineer 10
he Mckenzie. who had undertaken TO
eve with the ship during the nrst six mo
~ of hS service here. "