Evening journal., 1921-11-07
| MISSING IN
COAST WRECK
Schooner Palmer Cut Down
BY Clyde Apache in
~ Night Smash
ELEVEN SAVED
FROM DEATH

NEW YORK. Nov. THE five
masted schooner Singleton Palmer.
one Of the few stately Yankee fore
and-afters in service since the war.
was cut down early yesterday of
ihe Delaware coast, near Fenwick Is
land light by the Clyde passenger
liner Apache from Jacksonville.
The Apache last evening brought
in the biz ships mate. Sven Lam
strom. and one seaman. a black
1arbadian. Thomas Jones. The mate
said Engineer Swanson, a Swedish
American. had been lost. but the i'm
preston OF the skipper Of the Mer-
chants and Miners liner Gloucester
from Baltimore TO Boston. is that
he picked up all OF the rest Of the
crow. The mate got his information
from Capt. w. o. chicester OF the
Apache. whose owners refused to al
low him TO talk.
The bow Of the Apache was dent
ed and broken in several places and
her passengers we're pretty well
shaken up.
The Palmer sailed from Perth
Amboy in ballast on Friday for Nor
folk to take on a cargo Of coal for
Boston. with her skipper Capt.
Griffin. she had a crew Of twelve.
Mate Lanstrom said she was sailing
through a placid sea, or Fenwick
Island light at about 2.30 yesterday
morning. with not a cloud 10 hide
the stars. when the Apache's lights
were sighted.
The Palmer was running free.
with an canvas beilylng. the gentle
wind being several points abaft. and
he wondered why the lookouts on
the Clyde liner did not see the lofty
five sucker through the fogless air.
The duty of the Apache was to give
way for the Palmer.
II was the mates watch on deck.
He was still wondering why the
Apache was steering "a course that
would surely send her plumb
through the unloaded high sided
schooner. when the steel PROV Of
The steamship dug deeply into the
port side Of the Palmer before the
man al her wheel was able 10 change
her course. Every man aboard the
and Mate Lanstrom was tumbled
into the sea.
Jones. the Barbadian. who had a
reputation for sluggishness among
2 MS shipmates. got on his feet to find
tho liners bow nearly half way
i through the side Of the Palmer. He
A printed up the rigging before the
4 Apache's bruised nose could be with
j drawn and landed on her forward
ieck, so scared that he hid himself
away until the steamship was al
most IN Sandy Hook. He was mol
only unhurt. but his shoes were moi
even wet. Passengers or the Apache
Il were on deck in all sorts OF attire
| 20 watch the lowering OF a boat
\ which picked up Mate Lanstrom
who had been swimming around
4 waiting TO be saved.
The Palmer was equipped with
wireless, but had no chance TO us'
IL. but the Apache sent out calls foi
help. which were picked up by the
Gloucester. which was then close t'
the SCENE The Gloucester had boat
out in a jify and took aboard th'
rest OF the crew. some Of whom wer'
found clinging 10 the wreck, which
i being light. did not sink. but lay oi
W her port side. heeling over as tn
bow Of the Apache backed out o
the great gap.
The shippers Of the Gloucester AM
II tho Apache then began comparini
a notes. Mate Lanstrom said he ha'
II been informed by Capt. Chicheste
# and officers Of the Clyde ship tha
only nine had been taken aboard ia
gloucester and that tho name or IN
donkey engineer. Swanson was no
,mong those rescued. Passenger
and members Of the Apache's cre'
"a $50 said that Swanson had pee
Y lost
I.anstrom said the Apache was {
81 blame. the night being very clear an
the schooner. high out Of water wit
. an sail set, presenting a conspicuou
and lofty mark that only a bin
man could fail TO see.
When the Apache resumed he
course. after delay Of several hour
I'm which she Is said TO have bee
found leaking forward. she left N
4. Palmer a derelict In the course
roastwise steamships. II is possib
that a coast guard cutter may 10
I. her into Delaware Breakwater. 81
measured 2,S59 tons gross. was ~
feet long. was built at Waldooor
Ne. in 1904. was owned by tf
France and Canada Steamship CO
81 poration and hailed from this POI
> She saw war service. In which SCI
eral Of her five masted sisters we
lost.