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Show 00 SHIP AFLOAT BUT NO CREW British Captain Takes Derelict in Tow But Loses Her in Gale Newport News Va , Feb 5 Another An-other mystery of the deep, practically practical-ly paralleling the unexplained disappearance disap-pearance of the crew of the schooner schoon-er Marie Celeste several ears ago. has been reported here by rhe British Brit-ish tank steamer Roumanian. On lanuarv l! (burning alont ten days out from Port Arthur and near the Azores, she picked up the Norwegian bark Remittent, seaworthy, provision, ed and fully rigged, but without a soul aboard and no indication of the crews' fate The Roumanian, after towing the Remittent to within 100 miles of Cape Henry, lost her in a v iol nt pale The Marie celeste was found at sea with a pot boiling in her galle and her captain's papers on the cab-In cab-In table and even indication that her crew bad been aboard within a few hours of her discovery But nothing ever was beard of her skipper or crew. The story of the Remittent Is scarcely less strange. Derelict Sighted The Roumanian sighted the Reinit- t lit In latitude lu ib:-M-. iii ininni , ;; aud longitude 27 degrees 30 minutes riding a heavy swell without a hand to guide her before a freshening breeze The big tank steamer's lookout look-out Immediately reported her as aj ship oui of control and Captain Cab -idgi set out in pursuit. While the Roumanian was coming Up on her. the Remittent, with tiller banging to aud fro. was running wild, first to one point Of the compass and 1 then to another. The Roumanian' lowered boats to take a line to the I bark. After more than an hour's jockeying, during which the Remittent Remit-tent sailed lu scoops aud dashes, now Stopping dead ntreuible in the sye of the wind, and then bounding away to the crackling of what canvas was not lulled the puraulng boal Hnall) caiiclu and boarded lu-i Not a Soul Aboard. Her deck plauks. Once swabbed and Holystoned 'o a glistening white, bore the mail s of many feet, but there was nothing to explain the dis- j api eai ince of her waiter and crew In her cabin some odd-, and sndt r.dled and eluded " t'"' ' '""tiers, but the lockers and drawers wore un-disturbed, un-disturbed, and her charts and paper were quite secure, In her w?ter tanks there was a full SUPPB' Of fresh wa-tei wa-tei . and her stores of sail horse and biscuits were not depleted a main sail an,i two iiba were furled snusrlj and her lift boat sWtlhg f -"- dai Iti Thp fcoumsnlan'i fc!6ardera rent 0 hawaer to therprlze nnd took her In low A low hours later the vessels ran Into a gale, which lost the tanker her prize, after a valiant fight had I been made to save her The steamer and her tow bowled along in tairly favorable weathei for several das, but in a gale met L00 miles off Cape Henrv. Captain Clar- I idge lost the Remittent Vessel Lost In Gale. As the eea rose, the bark plunged I like a wild thing at the long hawser I and finally snapped the strands that bound her to the steamer. Twice the 1 Roumanian attempted to launch boats to earn anothei line aboard the d.relict bur each time thev were dashed against her sides and crush-ed crush-ed against the iron plates by heavy j seas. The boat ciews escaped drown- I nir by the narrowest margins Cap- J tain Claridge finally gave up the at- j tempt and made for port, leaving the Remittent at the merc of wind and sea. No ship has reported her since. The Remittent was commanded by Captain Torgersen and sailed from Rio Grande do Sul October 25 for Liverpool. he was of 3j1 tons, a comparatively small ship, and probably prob-ably carried In addition to her master, mas-ter, a crew of the or siv. no |