New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-29
2CRIPPLED SHIPS
TOWED TO PORT
italian Freighter Angelo
parodi, Fuel Gone,
Picked Up at Sea.
CREW READY TO
USE FOOD FOR FIRE
,,oonouin. with Shipwrecked
Sailors Aboard, Dropped Pro-
neller $40 Miles OFF Hook.

7ro steamships that had been put
49,, Il commission by gales and high
80, On the Atlantic were towed into
=, Yesterday by two vessels that
- their wireless calls for help.
r,,st 90 come through the NaSrows
as tie Italian freighter Angelo Pa
- which dritted away IN thick
.satler from the revenue cutter Itascaa.
&C. wss then picked up by the creek
,t,aushiy Cr.os from the Flraeus.
perdiy had the two fore gn craft
come into port tandem fashion than the
sos,+v-ise liner Cherokee rounded the
se''s'i.r5 r+rhtsh.p towing the AlCon-
in sister ship. which had dropped
g.. nropeIIcr about $40 miles south of
Ss,{v HooN January p. She was un-
NJ 90 make Roadway because her
'.-er was missing The Angelo Parodl
- no fuel 90 drive her propeller.
The Parodi. according 10 her master
c.,ts,r Rnuto. left NaGdeilCna, Italy,
T.-tv.trrce DAYS ago, bound with light
100 FOR Norfolk. Although she was
~ the southern track. where the
leather even at this season IS supposed
e., he fairly GOOD. she encountered ter
,.er gales from the northeast. which
,srsed her 90 steam for nearly week
,.rder mere stccragc way.
Desp.te the TACT that be had been o.
.e Atlantic thir,y-,hrce days. he had
risnty a. food for his men, and 10 one
Sss Worrying about provender. They
ysre even willing 60 burn q few barrels
n biscuits O. DC would serve 70 get up
s-ourh steam TO drive The Parodi 90
safety.
Tbc last shove,ful OF coal was
.trov- into Che furnace OF the Porodi
Il, January 10. There was enough steam
~ INN the cvuamos that ted the wlyc-
fss rlsrt. ara an abundance OF mes
s.res were sent out calling for help.
TIese were caught ashore and the rev
e-so cutter It.sca was sent out 20 the
distressed paroOL
Within "a day after the call was sent
Ill. The crttor came by the dlstres seq
f-eirhter and stood by for four DAYS.
Yao~ts were made TO pass line from
cutter 90 steamship. but the terrlhc
seas made the launching OF hieDoat
imp0ss. Bile.
4. the end or the fourth day when
the weather began TO moderate, a timex
for settled over the sea, and the yes
seis 6rifted apart When the pail INT
On on the following day aud the ltaSca
started out I'D search of the ParodI
she was unable 90 find her, and she re-
rorted the frcIEhtcr missing.
With help apparently gone, the SKIP
-.,, NJ Oh. Italian vessel ordered his
crew 90 chop up decks, furniture, dun
,aoe wood and whatever fittings ana
cargo that would burn and could be
shared. and int0 the furnace tins ac-
cuwrIstion was heaped IL burned
oYickIv. giving little or no power, and
Car..,q Benuto decided that luck alone
.voufd save him and his crew. lie
frif-od for some three hours after the
I.as.a was lost 90 him. and then sight
.fdthc Cr.so. vessel that early IN NO
yeu1e~ towcd 90 port the BRITISH
f-eirftc- Gr.pwcll when she lost her
rroucuer some 500 miles west OF
Gibraltar. 80,
During a clearing I'm the pail while
The sea VAS calm the Greek vessel man
aged 90 get line out 10 the Farodl
and lowed her safely TO this port o..
The CLYDE steamship Algonquin. with
sixteen passengers on board, dropped
her proneller on January -. when she
vas about 800 miles south OF the Scot
lana Iigbtship. a call for help was
cont out. and within two hours after
h was received ashore the Cherohee,
went out from Wilmington and picked
her up. 10 difficulty was experienced
In getting line aboard, and the tow
jne trip 10 New York began.
me Algonquin brought TO port the
master and eight sailors from the
wrecked American steamer FREDERICK
Ioesner and the purser Of the strand
ed Norwegian steamship Anita. Inc
men we're taken aboard ct Turks
Island