Show closed her career in glory r linal final chapter Cli apter in history of proud yankee clipper one which seamen of all N nationalities will hail as a fitting and proper end in these days when every item of the history of the old american square riggers Is precious it Is a happy moment when somebody turns up tip vho aho can add to the story B debes of the bethlehem lehem shipbuilding 1 it filing corporation at ioro fore iziver allyer Is ono one of I 1 these hose with it a history of lili his 0 own wn almost as picturesque ns as that of the ship he knew says the boston globe ile he came from kragero Kro gero it a small town on the southeast coast of norway when he was a boy tile pride of the town was a old conkle clipper ship it helped to build up tile thrill the boys got out of tier her to know no that she was popularly called tile tho little liell hell and tier muster master captain in Ingebret lison was known as aa the devil of the north sea T these ese things are compliments among bardy people tit alie e titles meant that the captain was a soft sail carrier arid a n driver the still was no place for a soft man hut but to ship in her meant that a man was proud of ilia him hardness and feared nothing tb that at a sail carrier or a bucko mate could hand bond out Is gone years ngo ago and his son Is now a shipmaster through tills this connection with ills boyhood home mr debes was able to write the final chapter in the alie story of the nightingale she was lost in a gale on the banks of newfoundland in 1892 a fact apparently not known to capt arthur 11 II clink clark who wrote tile the clipper ship kra era mr debes shows that lie he Is a true seaman and it true norseman for lie he says 1 I take great pleasure in the fact that slip went down tit in harness li arness and without los of life and that she lid did not share in the fate of many a proud yankee clipper of bellg being I 1 reduced to a coal barge walio wallowing win 9 along tit at the end of a n tow line the nightingales story Is romance from start to finish she was built in portsmouth intended to bo be it a passenger ship and to carry tourists to the worlds fair at london in 1851 in tier her original plan she was all staterooms state rooms and saloons and was luxuriously urious ly outfitted slip she was loco tons register feet long and 30 feet in boom beam with a depth of 20 feet she blie carried for a figure alku re head a beautiful bust of jenny land the swedish Siv edish nightingale for whom site she was named when she was waa nearly completed her owners fell short of money S samuel am hanscom II anscom her builder went right along with tier lier however end and completed his contract site she wits was launched during tile the year 1851 she was finally sold hold to sampson tappan for find and put into trade ni as one of the great fleet of racing site she was the ocean race of seven american find and british ships from china to england the race that was never decided capt samuel mother tin had tier her for or tile the years that sampson tappan owned tier her she made a number of fast passages e s though she doel not hold bold the records sampson tappan sold her to a salem firm which sent tier her to I 1 itlo 1 70 there she was bought and put ln into the african slave trade under tile the brazilian flag and on april 21 1801 in the harbor of kalenda Ka benda near the mouth of the congo river she was captured by the U S S saratoga which found 1000 slaves aboard of her the slaves were liberated and the ship chip was brought to new york by a prize crew in 1804 the ship was wag sent to the boston navy yard at charlestown Charles town at that time her figure figurehead bead was a carving to represent the herd head and neck of an american eagle it was removed from the ship and was mounted outside the floor door of lie corn onice after the civil war she wits sold rold to norwegian owners aind under tile ing flag of norway for tile the rest of tier her lire life |