Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-03-05 | Page 6 | Captain, Alone on His Ship, Watches Boat Drift to Sea

I Captain Alone Alone- on I His Ship Watches L Boat Drift to Sea SeaBy By United Press SEWARD Alaska March f. f After 4 After drifting forty Corty days Ys In the he i Ice e of Cook inlet tHe trie launch Onward with only Captain Schaffer aboard was picked up lip off Port Graham by Capt I. I D. D flor- flor Nordyke Nor Nor- dyke In the tn cannery tender Little Tom and towed to The Onward which left Seldovia ia for tor Anchorage with five men aboard cau caught t In the ce off ott Fire Island and amt after long drifting approached t the c shore at Tyonek Four Jour of ot the thc men went ashore and walked to Anchorage where they reported that Captain Schaffer had decided to re remain remain re- re rei i main and look after boat After I Schaffer'S companions left heft the Ice I again picked up the Onward and slowly slow slow- ly hy moved south with her The Onward emerged from th the Ice at Cape Kasilof but put having Schaffer who was also on short rations could only watch the drI drifting Ung of his boat past mak bay and out I. I toward the sea