Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-02-22 | Page 10 | Derelicts' Journeys

i DERELICTS' DERELICTS JOURNEYS j j Tales o of Floating Tramps on the High Seas I Perhaps Perhaps it is the natural instinct to per- per every craft that floats perhaps floats perhaps It f 1 i because they were once onca th the domiciles of at living beings that makes human Interest in derelicts universal They are the emi embodiment em- em L i b of pathos the menace of iff fly 7 From the slavery of man they have g g gone 1 ie e forth to the freedom of the sea which means after all that they are stumbling blindly on to that destruction which ultimately awaits all things which ar are at without the law Some of them last y but r a g number day fb others afloat float Is J usually for years about J The twenty avy avy av- av ty t but In 1873 1513 an average of of thirty-five thirty a month was reported Most 1 derelicts are made off orr the coast of the United States In the Gulf Gult stream and they are prone to at the ci ocean nol h river rm around r toi teg Us its great and many of them get into the Sargasso Sargasso Sar Sar- gasso sea r The most n notable i d derelict was the Fann Fanny f l dS Wolston o a three roasted schooner o r him lum- laden ber which was abandoned October isn 1531 and n was last seen in 1134 She drifted at least a ta taO O l miles W i following lI ing the gr at circle in a zigzag way In this s she he differed e from the h W V. t L L. White he a s schooner o which was abandoned off oft Delaware during the tha blizzard of ot ISiS The White was a fast traveler and started Immediately for Europe At times limes she attained a a. speed of thirty live miles a a. day She floated first I to th Grand Banks and hid In the fogs that hang bang over that region She stayed fin finOt Ot dal I doggedly in the mist unsung floating g around and around In a comparatively small circle lg looming up J nug suddenly ug n under di the bow of liners sending e n cold terror rr to t the hearts of fishermen colliding now and then with other vessels and making a a. general nut nui- pance ance of herself hersel After several months of ot this fun she suddenly left one day and continued her journey journe to Europe groundIng ground ground- ing at last on one of the New after a cruise of ten months and a drift of SO miles Then there was the Fred B B. Taylor a schooner cut in half halt off orr our coast mast bv by the steamship Trave The people on th the Travo waited alted to see the two parts sink but strangely enough they remained afloat They became separate derelicts and each went nt on a voyage of ot Its own The stern stood high out of the water and the wind blew I it north nort but the bow sinking low was carried south by the cold shore current cur cur- rent which runs from Labrador south to Hatteras between the coast and the Gulf Gul stream The bow WitS was destroyed or off orr North Carolina The stern grounded on Wells Veils bea h h-AInsle Magazine