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Show SAILOR8 DESERT SHIP. French Bark Claimed to Have Been Short of Ballast. Seattle. Sailors on tho French bark Admiral Courbct, lying off Port) Townscnd, mutlnlod on Saturday, nnd after forcibly taking a boat, pulled ashore, declaring they would not pro, ceed to son in tho vessel owing to her llghtoncd condition. N. W. O'Rcar ofj Port Townscnd, who arrived In thq city lntor, said thnt tho sailors In thrj afrnld to go to sea with the vessel In light ballast. This is tho first time for a number of yoars that nny crow hns seen fit to ,tako matters in their hands nnd forcl) 'bly leave a ship. Sailors state thai 250 tons ot ballast for n ship tho slzl of tho Courbet Is not sulllclent. The; nlso state that it was only by good luck that sho was picked up nftcr shj broko adrift from tho tug on her wa;J up hero from San Francisco. Tho loss of the Pass or Mclfort hi attributed to tho lack or sufllclcnt bal last. |