Show SAILORS DESERT SHIP french bark cla med to have beer short of ballast seattle sailors on the french bark admiral courbet lying off port otownsend mutinied on saturday and afar forcibly taking a boat pulled ashore declaring they would not proceed to sea in the vessel owing to her lightened condition N W 0 rear ot port townsend who arrived in tha 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 handa and ford bay leave a ship saffo rs state that tons of ballast tor 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 0 melfort is attributed to the lack of sufficient bal last |