The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-23
TINY SHIP SURVIVES
5000 MILE VOYAGE
Many Thrills Made Up Cruise
of the TyphOon, 45-FOot
Schooner.

The little schooner yacht Typhoon-
she measures nearly forty-five feet over
all--tied up last night at the municipal
ferry pier at st. George, Staten Island,
looking so shpshape that not the
shrewdest shellback would have suspect
ed she had just finished a voyage OF
more than 5000 miles, we'll sprinkled
with thrills, which has convinced her
owner and navigator, Capt. William
Washburn Nutting. that she is the
smartest and stanchest vessel of her
inches that ever bucked her way through
tempest across the western ocean.
The complete log of the Typhoon will
be published later in the shippers paper.
Motor Boat, but he was quite willing
last night to tell of his close calls in his
trips to and from Europe, and said he
had demonstrated that a small sailboat
when properly sldppered could negotiate
the Atlantic even in stormy weather.
Although the Typhoon has small
motor, it was never used on the voyage.
which was made entirely under sail
Hit by Hurricane.
The big experience of the Typhoon
came last Wednesday at noon, when she
fell afoul of a hurricane blast in the
Gulf Stream that crippled several big
craft in the business of ocean crossing.
They were indeed mountainous seas"
as seen from the deck of the tiny schoon-
err tossing like a peanut shell in Central
Park lake. A crested monster hit the
Typhoon and bore her away down on
her beam ends. her mainmast truck
actually dipping into the ferment.
When ship, big or little, goes on
her beam ends. or when her decks are
at right angles with the sea, tragic
things usually happen aboard. Able Sea-
men James Dorset and Ussa Clark were
carried overheard by the seacrest that
laid the Typhoon on her side and it
looked for a moment if they were bound
for Davy Jones. But, under the influ-
ence of about 1000 pounds of lead in
her keel. the schooner sprang back like
a reed. righting herself with astonishing
swiftness Two Boy Scouts. Fox and
Gillawny. making up the rest Of the crew.
and Nutting, the managing editor of the
ship. saw the able seamen struggling
toward them.
Rescued on Bucket.
Before they could even think of help
ing the StrugglerS another sea Washed
them back and still another carried them
off again Then the managing editor bent
a line on n bucket and tossed II astern.
where the able seamen were seen SWIM
ming vigorously. Dorset got a grip
on the bucket and Clark seized his ship
mates leg. They were hauled aboard,
exhausted. and the battering weather con-
tinuing. all hands decided to let the
ship drift, confident she could not sink,
until the storm moderated. Then they
put her on her course again.
The Typhoon and her navigator and
passengers attended the motor boat races
in England after making a twenty-five
dag trip from Nova Scotia TO Cowes. a
record for small craft. After the races
she visited French and Spanish ports.
leaving Coruna on September % for
the Azores. She lost her mizzen In
heavy weather and put back and stepped
another spar. In one pleasant week on
the way hither she cover more than
!. 900 miles. The gale Of last Wednes-
day spoiled or destroyed most Of the
food and the phlanthropic Spanish
steamship CULLEN Sorella came along
and replenished the little yachts
larder