Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-04-24 | Page 49 | Vessel Sails Away and Never Heard of Again

YZ 1 VESSEL SAILS AWAY AAY AND NEVER HEARD OF AGAIN Masted Four-Masted Bark Supposed to Have Gone to Uncharted Uncharted Uncharted Un Un- charted Ocean Grave SAN FRANCIS FRANCISCO O April April 23 Unseen Unseen i since she sailed over a shoulder of at the world from the p Post rt of at Friendly Islands In the South Pacific half hat a year ear ago the masted four-masted bark Harvester with fifteen men aboard followed the Maverick l and went down in a great storm If a sailor superstition is to be bo given attention The Harvester with copra In her holds sailed from last November and trimmed away for San Francisco the little group of at hospitable Polynesians on the dock bidding her a a. rather sorrowful farewell for is not on the the- busy trade lanes and ship visits are I quent The vessel was watched until she sher sheP dipped P lazily over the h horizon o No ship h I I or shore r ah has sighted e her e since as far a as asher her a owners here know A few days after her departure the skies blackened and a great storm tore I across the ocean trail she was taking It Itis Itis Itis is believed by shipping men that this storm bore her down and thrust her under the seas teas CONSTANT LOOKOUT For some months all vessels plying the Pacific kept a lookout u for t the Harvester e 19 Occasionally a hulk would fd be seen bottom bottom bot bot- tom up or an upright derelict with gaunt masts and decks awash each holding a II adeep adeep deep mystery of at its own but none of them was the Harvester One old sailing vessel which left a South sea island port about the time the Harvester cleared from fron and had struck calm after calm until she too was given up for lost made madea a Chilean port at last but had no word of at the Harvester The Harvester was known in many ports of the world She was wis fifty years old old having slipped sUpped into the Merrimac l at atu Newburyport u Mass in 1871 and d for years sailed dt t the North or h Atlantic nt T This Y was her first mishap She was owned by the Charles Nelson company of at Sa San Salt n Francisco NEVER HEARD FROM Sailor men who say the Harvester followed the Maverick referred to a legend built around an old gun running vessel essel of that name which found an un- un uncharted uncharted un un- charted t grave e In the Pacific a after putting putting put put- ting fn out t f from Batavia nta t to a lg Central n le American Amer Amer- American ican port where she was to be outfitted as a merchantman Formerly a Standard Standard Standard Stand Stand- ard Oil tanker the Maverick had been taken over over over-at at the beginning of or the World war by a group of conspirators conspirators- who plotted here to overthrow British rule throughout the Punjab With a knocked down submarine submarine and rifles and ammunition ammunition ammunition tion in her holds but with her manifest showing sho nothing more than a harmless oil cargo destined ostensibly for Topolobampo Topolobampo Topolobampo she put out from San Pedro Cal on all a voyage that it was hoped would touch off oft the revolt Before she reached Batavia she was captured by a British cruiser and taken into that port a prize She remained there a short time awaiting sale and re- re charter and when this was accomplished she put to sea and squared away to her Central American destination A few fewa days a s 's later a monsoon one of tho the worst eve experienced in the South Pacific tore across her path She was never heard from again A superstition soon was built around the vess vessel l old mariners of an Imaginative or romantic turn saying flaying they had seen the wraith of the Maverick cruising down the sea lanes between Johnston island and Batavia or trying to find haven in inthe inthe inthe the coral rings of which is the native name for the This wraith I never appeared they said until monsoon I II time when it could lure other ships to I I their doom in the rt hep-rt he rt of the storm I while craftily craWly appearing to lead them to I safety I. I 1