| Show 1 oil on troubled trouble d waters vaters although the effects of pouring oil upon the troubled waters scarcely enters into the mind of man beyond a figurative sentiment there are a few modern In instances of its wonderful power at sea bea in cases of impending ding aing shipwreck those few cases however which have found a faithful record ought to arrest more deeply the public attention tent lon loD for if the efficacy of oil la is of the nature which theae these accounts would lead us to accept so simple I 1 a provision against the disasters of I 1 the ocean cannot be too extensively I 1 known As far r back as 1770 a dutch east diaman indiaman rn was saved from wreck in a storm near the jalanda islands of paul and amsterdam by pouring on the sea a ajar jar of olive oil the writer of ehre states that a mr ritchie rit Bit chie ehle who accompany led a danish dinish captain captai uto nto lo 10 the island of porto potto banto tanto being tutor to his son was standing on the shore during a hurricane when he saw the helel vete feel in which he be arrived torn from her anchor and und swallowed ed up suddenly in the middle of the bay at appeared I 1 P eared a boat driving towards shore the waves however advanced with redoubled energy but without breaking aud and tossed the boat so high on ine the strand that the men were unable out and scramble up the beack the rescue was due to the captain who as the boat entered the breakers stove in a keg of oil which though unable to iebsen leesen their height prevented the waves from breaking and caused them to run up the strand like rollers carrying the boat with them in 1867 a master stated in the new york shipping list that he be had bad been at sea years yearb and master for 10 years and that he had bad saved the vessel under his bis command tw twice ice by oiling the sea he says uben a ship is Js disabled and cannot get got out of a storm and the master has to make the kest best best of a gale gaie if it be he has oil on board be he should start two or three gallons over the side to windward this will make smooth water ane oil allowed to drip out is all that is required the phlp is in smooth though heaving water waier as long iong as the oil runs in 1864 1664 in the heaviest gale of wind he ever experienced he lost sil all sails the rudder fol tol owed and he knew the vessel could not have ridden thelea the bea sea foran hour longer if he had not had bad some oil five gallons lasted 56 hours and thus paved saved the vessel cargo and ilves lives he recommends that ships of heavy tonnage should have two iron tanks of 40 gallons each one on each si dewith the thu faucets BO so arranged that the oil cau can be started at any time into email small vessels say ten gallon c asks casks and in all ships boats tanks of five gallons each well filled eo so that in case the ship founders or burns the boats will have oil to smooth the sea in a gae with these tanks and a good master who knows the law of storms and handies handles the ship so as to get got out of the centre of it the danger of foundering is greatly reduced capt betts bette of the king cenric of 1490 tons which lately arrived at bombay from liverpool with a cargo of coal used common pine oil joil in a heavy gale of wind to prevent the bea sea breaking brea klug klog on the board and with perfect success the gale continued for nearly five days and raged with determined fury it had bad last lart ed some time when the chief 0 officer mr bowyer bethought I 1 himself of a lo 10 an un be he had bad seen eien tried s upon some bome eions when in the atlantic to pit hiu hru the bea sea breaking lu iu he gut tu canvass clothes bags into tach he poured two gallons of oil he punctured the baga bags slightly and hung one over ea each ch quarter towing them along the effect was magical the waves no longer broke against the poop und end sides of the ship but yards and yards away where the oil had slowly spread it self belt over the water and in the wake wabe of the vessel was wits a large space oi ot calm water the crew were thus able to repair damages with greater eabe the ship was relieved from those tremendous shocks rec received elved from the mass maes of water which had burst ever her ber quarters and stern and tho the danger r was considerably lessened |
