New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20
Sailors Quit, Then
Save Ship Ask
Share i'm Salvage
Men Who Faced Death in
Raging Seas md Brought
Vessel and Cargo. Safely
TO Port Ask Reward

When the marine strike ends one of
the ships that sail VIII be the Nll
ssgged Norwegian ship Superior which
arrived in port some weeks ago with
half d crew, after having been reported
lost IN the narrow and treacherous
Iombo& Strait OF the DOteA East Ind
les. Bat there will be legal string
70 her IN the form Of a salvage suit for
$4,000 instituted by the men who
toiled the vessel here with cargo Of
sugar and hemp valued at s1650oo,
which previously had been believed lost
al sea,
The question which Will have to be
decided by the American admiralty
court IS this:
If a skipper leaves his ship IN a
lifeboat with his papers, rous off a
way and then returns with part Of
The crew and navigates the vessel
safely 10 port, is that part OF the crew
entitled to salvage9
All Want Back Pay
The members of the crew who re-
turned with Captain Kristian Hansen
maintain they are, and they h;6e re-
tanned Silas Axtell an admiralty proc
tor, to carry on proceedings, Ia addi-
tion that par: OF the crcrr which aban-
doned ship in tho mates boat, when
the captain Left in his, and spent sew
era days afterward looking for a trace
Of a lost ship and the shippers boat,
are asking s400 each in back pay,
The Superior was bound to New York
from Manila, when on January the
wind died and she was caught helpless
among the rocks OF Lombok Strait.
which connects the Java Sen with the
Indian Ocean The anchor was cast,
but failed TO catch Soundirsgs revealed
q depth OF 40 fathoms, whereas the
anchor cable was only eighty fathoms
tn length The vessel was rapidly
drifting upon the rocks, where rapid
currents made 9 raging surf.
Ship Is Abandoned
Lifeboats we're provisioned. With
eight members OF tho crew, Captain
Hansen entered his boat, and the mate
and the rest OF the men had cast off
IN another. The crewless ship driftcd
on Sut the captains boat Geveloped
leaks, and while the mates boat made
progress toward Nusa Besar Island,
the captain and his men devoted their
Time 20 ba4-Il1S- L men one OF the cap
taln's men shouted that the ship had
stopped drifting toward the rocks, and
the captain then headed back to the
vessel Clambering aboard, the men
found that the anchor at last had
caught, with the ships stern almost on
the rocks.
few hours later q breeze sprape
up The anchor cable was cut, sail was
made, and, skirting the rocks, the SD
perior made her way safely into the
Indian Ocean ard thence home.
Meanwhile the first mate and his
men had made shore safely, but find
ing the island on which they had land
ed uninhabited, set out for Bali Island,
where they found Dutch wireless sta
ton. Then they set out searching for
the wreck CT their ship and trace Of
the captain and his section OF the crew
A Dutch destroyer joined the search
but nothing was found. Then the shin
was reported lost and the captain and
part OF the crew missing.
The mate and his men were sent uIti
Mate!y 70 Norway, where they have
aied claim. since the arrival Of the
Superior was reported. The vessel has
been released by the admiralty court
uncer s-0, 900 bond. She is an iron YES
GEL, valued at 5000 600.