Salt Lake Telegram | 1907-05-01 | Page 6 | Sails Around Horn 56 Times in 32 Years

SAILS AROUND HORN 56 TIMES IN 32 YEARS BALTIMORE, Md.. May 1. Fifty-six times around Cape Flora as master Is a record hel by only one man In the world. It Is said, and he Is Capt. F. Murphy, In command of the four-ma&t Bath steel ship, William F. Frye. now at this port. The fifty-seventh venture through the " rearing forties" and . around the Horn will be started from Baltimore as soon aa the Frye Is loaded with coal for San Francisco. Born in Bath. Me., the home of the great sailing vessels, he went early to sea. His first command was the ship David Brown of Seaport, Me.This waa In 1871. Entering tne employ of Arthur Sewall of Bath, he followed In the Alex, ander, Yorktown. William F. Babcock, Shenandoah, Kenilworth, Arthur Sewall, and then the William P. Frye, his prea-ent prea-ent command. After four years ashore he returns to the Cape Horn voyages In the same ship he left for a supposed release from sea life. ' In his voyaging around the Horn Capt. Murphy computes the distances made at 900.000 mile. During these trips," said Capt Murphy, Mur-phy, "I never had an accident to a ship and -ever went through the trials of hav. Ing trouble with my crews. Mutinous men never cropped up on any ship I ever commanded com-manded In that time."