Emery County Progress | 1906-02-17 | Page 2 | Sailors Desert Ship

SAILORS DESERT SHIP french bark cla med to have been short of ballast seattle sailors on the french bark admiral courbet lying off port townsend mutinied on saturday and after forcibly taking a boat pulled ashore declaring they would not proceed to sea in the vessel owing to her lightened condition N W orear 0 rear ot 0 port townsend who arrived in city later said that the sailors in the afraid to go to sea with the vessel in light ballast this is the first time for a number of years that any crew has seen fit to take matters in their hands and ford bly leave a ship sailors state that tons of ballast for a ship the size of the courbet is not sufficient they also state that it was only by good luck that she was picked up after she broke adrift from the tug on her way up here from san francisco the loss of the pass of melfort is attributed attributed to the lack of sufficient bal last