Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-21 | Page 4 | Ship Believed Lost Arrives at Port

SHIP BELIEVED LOST ARRIVES AT PORT NEW YORK, May 20. Three months after the fifty-year-old Norwegian bark Superior became a "mystery of the sea" by "disappearing" off the Island of Baldi in the Malay archipelago, on a voyage from Manila to New York, the vessel arrived ar-rived here today with her captain unaware un-aware that his ship had been given up as lost. The crew was recruited in San Francisco beforo the ship sailed from that port for the Philippines in December, Decem-ber, 1018. Captain Hansen explained that after he and the crew, believing the Superior was going on the rocks, put out in two lifeboats toward shore, the wind veered and his own boat returned to the ship. Meanwhile, the mate and six of the crew went ashore and believing the vessel had been lost and that the captain and other members had perished, sent a cable message mes-sage to the Norwegian -American Trading Trad-ing company here, charterers of the vessel, ves-sel, saying she had disappeared and that it is "a mysterious case." A search by government authorities in the Philippines failed to locate the vessel. Captain Hansen thought the mate and his six companions were drowned. Prior to her "disappearance" the Superior had loaded at Manila a cargo of hemp and sugar which she brought here.