Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-04-22 | Page 14 | Schooner Made Famous by Joan Lowell Ends Sailing Days; Now Fishing Barge

Schooner Made Famous by Joan Lowell finds Sailing Days Now Fishing Barge SAN FRANCISCO April 22 UP The The sailing schooner Minnie A A. Calne made famous by the graphic If ti erroneous description of ot Us its ts burnIng burning burn- burn Ing and sinking In Joan Lowells Lowell's Cradle of ot the Deep was at sea 1 today on its last voyage four Imposing masts and or or- or- or nate nat deck fittings that graced the Minnie A A. A CaIne Calne when tile the young oung writer sailed called the the seas as were gone as S It moved out of or Oakland c estuary In hi tow of a tug The Minnie A. A Calne's Caines fate will willbe willbe Ul Ulbe be that of oC a fishing barge The old vessel essel was purchased ed b by a l San Santa a aB Barbara B company and will be an an- In a channel off ort the California resort city Long for forgotten by shipping men the Minnie A A. A Caine Calne was peacefully ending its da days s 's in the estuary when Miss Mio Lo Lowell named It as the schooner on which she he spent the first 17 years of or her life In her book she told how howIt It burned and sank three miles out from Crom shore vividly J de describing her heroic swim to shore A literary scandal ar arose when the schooner was located d and and it its log re revealed revealed re- re that it had not burned at t tea sea f ea but at a dock in Adelaide Australia