| Show j TALES OF THE rHE SEA SEAOn I II I IOn IOn On January Janu ry 20 1870 the City of Bos Boston Boston Boston ton sailed from Halifax for England with souls on board hoard She was wasa a afine afine fine ship splendidly equipped but she disappeared without leaving l a clue to her fate The Tire Burvie Castle left lert London some sometime sometime sometime time age bound ona on a voyage to Aus Australla She should have made madea a final call at Plymouth but she never came sight of the thc Hoe nor has human eye ever seen her from that day she dropped down the Channel It was on May Ia 1 1850 that the Lady Nugent spread her sails at Madras with 37 of the Madras light Infantry on board bound for Ran Rangoon Rangoon Rangoon goon With the regimental band play pla tag g with the friends of the passengers on the tha shore shouting farewell with a clear cleat sea before her she left port but she has never reached Rangoon or any an another other port J rt known to man Two years later the Collins liner Pa Pacific Pacific Pacific dropped down the Mersey lersey with ISO people on board She went the way of the City of Glasgow and the others What strange port they found no one knows bow The ship President left New N w York for London early in 1841 with many distin distinguished distinguished passengers among them a son of the Duke of Richmond and the come comedian comedian comedian dian Tyrone Power She was expected at Liverpool in March but April 13 lu came the news that she had put into Maderia for repairs to her engine She never reached Liverpool or any other port It was as late as 1904 1901 that the ship Lamorna Lamona sailed from carry ing a cargo argo of wheat for Queenstown Following close upon the departure came a fiere fierce gale Wreckage was found and the report was circulated that the shin ship had been battered to pieces on Cape Flattery But hardly had this report been spread when a coasting schooner reported having seen the ship off Coos pay nay bat battered battered battered but apparently well able to with withstand withstand withstand stand the seas It was soon generally believed that it was wasP true that she had weathered l the gale and was sailing about somewhere But where Weeks passed and she was not again heard from Ships were asked to be on rn the lookout for her and news was anxiously awaited It was a long time after aft r this that the German ship Artemis sighted si a derelict d relict far out at sea steering about wildly beating against head winds and au yet et re refusing refusing refusing fusing to display signals I nals of any kind kindA A little later the unknown threw her head to the east and executed execute a series erics of freak maneuvers It looked for all aU aUthe the world as though the ship was man managed aged by crazy men who were trying to tc puzzle the Th captain of the Artemis was mys mystified mystified He steered nearer the strange I craft and with the aid of the spyglass s I made out the name Lamorna Consult Consulting Consulting ing his shipping records he discovered that she was outward bound and lond I overdue But that hardly accounted for fOX her he queer actions When Then within a few hundred yards of or orthe the ship the captain cons derf d it H dan dangerous dangerous dangerous to get very vcr near he be set signals but received re no response For several hours the weird bark retrained o in d within sight but neither siren rocket pro provoked provoked yoked response The swept the decks of th craft but did not see a living soul It was apparently a without a crew cr w running at her own awn frea will The Ar oAr Artemis temis followed follo ved it in ts wild course LO se a along t long as possible but b t suddenly the I turned and made straight for the open tea ica ea It sailed a straight ht curse course as though bound on some important mis mission ml sion and so proceeded until lost to view below the horizon line What had become of the crew Were there in reality some of them left on onboard onboard onboard board gone mad under the strain guiding the ship they the knew ew not where No one will ever know knew Certain C it i is that not a t i man of them was ever heard from nor has the ship Itself ever been b cn again agail On an overage according to r from Lloyds some s me sixty sixt ships with their crews are FO o from sight every year IP In the year Y alone alono aon ships shins and disappeared is and ard their fate is today unknown A conservative esti estimate estimate mate would place the number of people so lost Jost during diring the last fifty years ears at over The size or the of af the chip hip seems to make no difference diff rence big modern steamships have disappeared disappeared as easily as the numberless lit ht littIe little tle tIe sailing alling cm craft ft |
