Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-12-10 | Page 3 | Ship Finally Reaches Graveyard after Showing Real Feminine Contrariness

Ship Finally Reaches Graveyard After Showing Real Feminine Contrariness I I OAKLAND CaL Dec Dee 10 UP UP-A UP A famous amous old three-masted three schooner was wasn in n the ships ships' graveyard off ort Angel island today after aUer she had given ample roof that a aJ ship is called she sh because be- be cause of ot feminize contrariness The year old Simla became rebellious rebellious re- re and sank in Oakland estuary In n October 1929 probably 1929 probably because she ic had been converted into an oil barge large and considered that an nn insult to o any self respecting former trim schooner that had sailed the seven seas cas Every effort eort to raise her failed untiE until unI un- un tiE til I Fred Henderson Long Beach diver iver went below and did some patching patch patch- ing ng so she could be pumped full fuU of air ir The trick worked and the Simla was r raised but soon after ater she took a look at the sun she rolled over and descended descended descended de de- de- de again to continue being a menace to steam vessels that had been towing her around Henderson had to repeat his patching patch patch- ing tag and when the Simla was brought to the surface again she was started for the graveyard En route there she picked out a good mud flat fiat off Oakland Oakland Oakland Oak Oak- land mole and settled down Crews of two tugs had to wait till the tide came in before they could budge her Then the funeral voyage was resumed The Simla full of air and riding upside down resigned herself to her fate Over the burial ground the air was released and she sank to the bottom to to her final resting place