Year: 1865

seen had her fore lower mast standing,


and part of the rigging, also the mizzen
mast. The extreme fore and aft part of
her seemed to be occasionally above


water, but the whole main deck was inn
mersed, and the sea making clean


breach over her.


Upon approaching her the three men


were seen standing by the rudder post,
and occasionally immersed i'll the water


Their condition was most deplorable,


they having scarcely any clothing about


them except some pieces of old sail, tied


with bits Of spun yarn; their flesh, and


particularly their arms, feet and legs,


were swelled and of putrid appearance


in some places broken out in boils, and
they were very weak From the state
ments of these men it appears they left
New York for Greenock, laden with oak
timber, with crew of thirteen, all told,
on the 3th of November They had fine
weather up to the morning of December
7th, when it blew strong gale from the
southwest, with seas which washed away
the galley and deck house forward, where
the crew were quartered, lost one or two
boats, and washed away the bulwarks,
thus being left without the means of
cooking food, and without shelter


The barque was then hove to, under
close-reefed maintopsail, and all hands
were now kept constantly at the pumps
(where they were lashed) She had at
this time seven feet of water i'll the hold,
which kept gaining on the pumps until
5 p NJ of the llth, when the gale seemed
to abate, when some sails Were set and
the barque put before the wind, when she
fell over on her beam ends, bursting the
matches and main deck, carrying away
the remaining boat and the deck cabin
with all the stores; and as every one was
on deck at the time, every one was wash
ed overheard. Six managed to get on
board again; the remaining seven were
seen no more


The captain then got into the main rig
ging with his head just above the water,
the second mate got into the fore rigging,
and the three survivors, with boy, were
enabled to get into the mizzen rigging.
The ship remaining on her beam ends.
with her masts and loose sails in the
water for about an hour and a half, when
the fore topmast, mainmast and miZzen
topmast gave way, carrying the captain
with them. She thus became relieved
and righted, her decks amidships under
water, and the two ends above the sea,
which went clear over her the whole
time


When daylight appeared on the 18th,
the second mate was seen lashed in the
fora rigging and apparently dead, and
not being able to get near him, he re-
manned there. Eventually the sea wash
ed the second mate ashore, a part of his
body remaining in the rigging where the
others were rescued The boy who got
into the mizzen rigging with the sur
vivors, pe1shed from cold and fatigue Oh
the morning Of the 18th, and was washed
away from them soon after they discoy- |
cred he was dead. The survivors, soon
after the vessel righted, gained the mon
key poop, small space OFF, about four by |
ten feet, and raised above the main deck |
about two feet, upon which formerly
stood the wheel Here they lashed them
selves to the rudder-post, but the sea.
which was constantly breaking over
them, for six days and nights, would oc-
with the assistance of his fellow sufferers
le would regain his position. 1t was
rom here the boy was washed away
when dead, and from whence they were
eseued by the men from the City Of DuJ-
IN. For the six days they were on the
wreck, they were without food, except
ew pieces of biscuit which hoated near
hem, which were saturated with salt
vater. Fresh water they had not drop
t, and were without clothing except the
yet pieces of canvass which the man
ohnsOn managed at great risk to cut
rom the mizzen-mast where il hung the
rst day.