Show ftfe iz 11 I 1 11 ll Ws P i ap 9 A aab N 6 W H AH 2 I 1 islami is laii and cetaceous ca us collide sometimes with disastrous the steamship petersburg of the russian volunteer fleet had a unique experience near Min icoy in the south indian ocean says chambers journal A sharp shock was felt by all on board and she stopped as though gripped in a vise the sea was found tobe to too colored with the lifeblood life blood of two huge whales which lay floating in their last greo agony 4 one was cut through by the steamers sharp stem and the other killed by repeated blows of the screw propeller the german steamship Wa Jand esland bound from antwerp to new york ran into and killed a sleeping whale A small steamer the belloe collided with a whale near se sea ham harbor and wounded it badly the celebrated yacht genesta narrowly avoided collision with a dead cetacean during the jubilee race around our island in 1889 a shields steamship the james turpie nearly cut a whale in two one starlight night the schooner 0 M marrett was almost wrecked by passing whales in the north atlantic many of the school s struck her repeatedly adly with such violence that her whole hull shook and articles in the officers rooms were thrown to the floor 1 in 1890 a small sailing vessel the ocean spray bound from galveston to england struck a sleeping whale and received damage on the morning of the lath of july a whale fifty feet long made its appearance close alongside the steamship port adelaide capt C 31 hepworth R N R in 4 43 42 2 degrees south 75 degrees east lie he followed the vessel for four days never more than seventy yards away and generally close astern much to the edification edill cation of numerous passengers lie he threw up the sponge in 41 degrees south 97 degrees gr ees east after traveling nine hundred antl and e eighty ight v statute miles certainly without resting and apparently fasting in november the ship earnock barnock Ear nock capt parson was under sail in 29 degree south 21 degrees west when a I 1 larg arat whale lashed the sea into foam with his hi tall tail so near the ship that the abie officer who happened to be below for ward came quickly on deck to se be what had happened he actually felt the impact of the water against her bows in june 1891 while her maje s ship hip immortalize Immor was steaming hom from arosa bay to gibraltar at the rate of twelve knots an hour she stopped i short as though 1 a submerged danger had been located it was pr presently se antly found that she had cut deeply into a whale and it became necessary to go astern in order to get rid of the inome bra brance lipp four months later the anchor line steamship ethiopia collided with a whale when about ei eight ht hundred miles from new york |