Spanish Fork Press | 1906-02-15 | Page 2 | Sailors Desert Ship

SAILORS DESERT SHIP French Bark Claimed to Have Been Short of Ballast Seattle Sailors on tho French bark Admiral Courbet lying off Port Townsend mutinied on Saturday nod after forcibly Inking a boat pullets ashore declaring they would not proceed pro-ceed to sea In tho vessel owing to her lightened condition N W ORear o < Port Townsend who arrived In thq city later said that the sailors In thq i afraid to go to sea with tho vessel 1m1 light ballast This Is tho first time for a number of years that any crow has seen fit to tako matters In their hands and forclt bly leave a ship Sailors state thai 250 tons of ballast for a ship the size < i of tho Courbet Is not sufficient The also state that It was only by good luck that she was picked up after shii < j broke adrift from the tug on her wa up hero from San Francisco The loss of the Pass of Melfort lil attributed to the lack of sufficient bait last