The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-03
Three Masted Schooner
 Has Thrilling Voyage
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 is one of the old-time deep sea skip pers. Born and brought up among ships and shipping men in Cape Goa he took to sea when 16 years old. Al years, holding every post from gal ley boy to boatswain, he was gwen command of his first vessel when 24 years of age. Since that time he his travels have twice taken him around the globe.
 While discussing his last trip from Halifax yesterday afternoon, he said:
 seas well on to 40 years, this last voy- age of mine was among the most dan gerous and thrilling that I can re- member.
 'aThe Sara fs as staunch a craft as ever piled along the Atlantic coast She was launched just before the war down on the Jersey coast, although at that time she had only her three masts and sails. Two years ago, how ever, I had an auxiliary engine put in, and that's what Eelled us through this last time.
 well. I cleared the harDor at Hal, flax three weeks come Friday, and had been out only three days when we ran into our first storm. That battered us pretty badly, but damaged us in no way save some of the comb CTS that swept us from stem to stern got below and ruined the biggest part | of our food supply. About all we | had left was canned biscuit and some l canned vegetables. That didn't worry us though because with good weather we expected to reach Boston in plenty 1 of time to stock up again. Had we only known it that storm l was just the beginning of our trou- bles. Two days later we ran into one | that blew us nearly 200 miles off our i course, knocked down our topmast, and made out deck look like a junk | pile in a ship yard. We were heav- | fly laden with pulp, and had good | had before we started. That second storm relieved us of a good part of | our cargo.
 | 'tThe rest of the voyage seemed nothing but storms, one right after i the other. One hit us about 3 o'clock | in the morning when I had full sails up beating>it for port while I had the | chance. Of course we had to reef 1 the sails before the terrific gale bowL- ed us over, and I sent four of the men aIoft to do the job
 | Tt was pretty tick1iSh business, and what I feared came to pass when l the heaving ship caused one of the | boys on the topgaIlant crosstrees to lose his hold and come crashing to the deck He struck a rope ladder
 we stretched across the deck for safe | ty while walking, and to that he owes
 his life. It was only few min
 utes later that another full blood
 ed East Indian, who joined us in
 Halifax, came toPpling. down. | Both men were badly injured and
 we fixed them up the best we could
 with our meager medical and surgical knowledge. From then on I was l short-handed, and The Sara spread
 her beams and started to leak bad ly. Every man I could spare was
 at the pumps, but in spite of us there
 was always at least foot of water in
 our hold.
 finest and most loyal crew that ever
 manned a ship in these parts Some
 of sthem were without sleep for two and three days at a time. When
 they turned in it would only be for three hours, and they had to put up with terrible food. The coffee was
 nothing more than colored water, and
 the biscuits were water-soaked. | 'However, late last Friday night we crawled into Boston harbor and what welcome sight that was. We hurried Anderson and the East In
 dian to a hospital, and repaired what damage we could Saturday the own
 CTS looked the boat over, and or
 dered me to proceed as soon as pos
 sible to a Jersey dry-dock for a com
 plete overhauling.
 Mot wanting to wait too long, for
 I was afraid the old girl couldn' I
 stand up much longer, I sailed Sat-
 urday night and ran into another
 storm Sunday. had to go mighty
 slow and hugged the shore as much
 as possible, and last night when ]
 lost my mainsail, I started looking for likely harbor.
 'fThe auxiliary engine was again pN in use, but even that developed some internal disorder and went dead
 on me this morning, just as we were
 heading for this harbor" With the aid of an expert mechan-
 ic the engine was repaired, and
 the Sara started on the last leg o1 ! her voyage late yesterday afternoon , MORE TROVRJE