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Show I I DRIFTING GHOSTS THAT HAUNT THE GREAT HIGHWAYS OF OCEAN TRAVEL SsS;'' HwV &S . titwiviiiTt, - "V tfc, i'eSOTftev, 'Cv our. or the now ntnaMisnolc teat' aaii -52i- "& iav sOe4fuyt-. ucra in huiory "Cy , fkw i1" t, EfiiatSy Drlfllng Rhoata of the an' Thla phraeo la no n I n 1 1 r n n lb l to the atetldiy mi iii I ihiniiim rhlpa vihtch, to t'iu i u.ni r of hi'lac. n 1 160 and 100, are n mln day and . right, now In alorm now In calm, arroea the lanea of I rami and up rnd down th Atlantic with only Ilia wind or the warn fur a pilot l'llbllo attention waa drawn a few daya ago to the laying of one of thrae marine phnntoma- one nt the moat dnngeroua and perelelenl of them -by Commander H M llohuJii of thn Unltpil Htaloa nnv). In command of tho l'cnnaylvanla nautical training ahlp Haralnga When aboul thlrleen mllea north of Corvo In tho Aiorea, Oommandor llnlmnn alghteil tho derelict, dere-lict, which proved lo be tho three-moiled, three-moiled, tiitnlmrhdin achnnner Jninea W., of Charlnllelnwn, I'rince Kdward (aland Almndonoil and rompleli'ly dlamnetod by recurrent tornadiMa, ranging the aeaa between tho Aiorea and llallfai, the Jamca W had for niontha been aa much of a bogle lo eimcn aa ever waa the Fixing Dutchman Dutch-man to tho eiily navlgatora of New Vork (neo Amatordnm) Her depeo-pint depeo-pint decka were a wept cloan except Derelict Oarkentlne Stranded on Nantucket Nan-tucket laland After Roving tho Atlantic Two Monthe. for the foremaet. and tho anchor on tho Ikiw Tlmuughly alitn to the dnngor to natlgatlnn which thla much fenrod and oftm r oried ilerollct ottered Commander Com-mander llolmnn atrod li) over nlghl, ind auci 'i ded tho neat morning in tnklnr. I lie ghoat ahlp In tow lie aub aoqiinatty aiicteedud In benching her on ie norths eat ehore of Corvo, helving tier well up on tbs boich by nienna of her anchora. There the James W. waa auddnnly ivnafnrmoil from bring a marlno men ee tn a prli3 for Weat Indian van data or wreckcra, Hhe waa boarded from tho Ullage of Corvo. Only a few daya ago Capt, Hell and the crew of tho government wrecking ahlp Nina returned from n crulio In which a number of ilangcroua dcre-tlcta dcre-tlcta were destroyed Acting upon Information furnished tho lldro-rapMc lldro-rapMc ofllcn by mariners In tho mcr-riant mcr-riant marine, na well ao paaannger aervlce between American and for-elan for-elan porta, tho government dynamllora put nut on ono ot tro moat aurcceetu! crulsea of the anrt ever undertaken When the Ntnn or tho rev onus cut ter Droehnm, which nlao mnkoa frequent fre-quent oicnralona to nn In the hunt for derelicts, alghta n drifting wreck boata are lowered nnd rannred br seamen eiperlenced In tho tiao of hlyh eploalei Bitty pivunil torroiloea generally aro tiaed tho (Ireabam on her laat trip taking enough Of them to destroy MO derelict! Thay are either exploded by means of time fuses or by olectrlclty, according to the oilgoncy of tho occasion. Ono of tho moat remarkable, derelicts. dere-licts. In point of longovtty and the dla tance aba drifted, waa the Wycr (1 Sargent, which was destroyed on March 11. 1891. after having In 61S daya drifted G,M0 miles During tor twoiar rrulae piloted only by the lirn tea and rurrinta the Hargent was seen nnd reportt d Ihlrty four time Another celebrated derelict with, II fa belli ed. more victims to her credit -or dlacredlt than nny other sea ghft of record, won the bnrk Count oaa of IiiinVrln Hhe nna first report ed to the llydrogtHphlc otflco on Dec 31, IS'JI. and between that 11 mo and April 9 IkOJ when aim waa lnat rc-IHtrtnl rc-IHtrtnl she had como Into collision with eleven vessels This la partially elilned by tho fnct that tho III nmtned Counteaa had been shorn of every spar and bit of rigging ao that only her solid hull romalned, half filled with wnler and floating some four fiet above water In calm It being Impossible for tho sharpest eyes to ieu her when tho sua and wind wnllied ever so lightly, tho Countess of Duffer In soon became a terror to all mariners on tha ocean highways Within a period of nlnoty daya thla famous derelict traveled 1,350 miles before disappearing. Another derelict Immortallied In the' aoa toga of the world waa tho Amerl can achocner W, I. Whlto. I Iff cruise came to a clone. Jau 21, I8S. when aha stranded and went down off ono of tho lalands of tho Hebrides, Tho White (lbost, aa tho derelict schooner came to bo known, waa one of many veaaels that met dlaaster and was abandoned In tho momnrablo hur-rlcnno hur-rlcnno of 1S8S, when so many Uvea wrro loal on sen nnd ashore. Iteachlng tho (lull Stream she veered to the eastward, snd began her remarkable cruise toward Uurope, dt rrctly In the path of thousands of vra rela engaged In train Atlantic trade, drifting about nt tho whim of tlo wind nnd the miRht) stream or rlvir which flows mrniiolcally through tho Atlantic At-lantic riuliled not at nil, or misguided misguid-ed nt best, -he sped north northesst at tho rate of thirty two mllea a day until she reached latitude tl degrees north, longlludo 11 degrees went, when she brgin n rvmnrkablo xlgiag perform anco wjilch lasted from tho begin nlng of May to the Idea of October When she miletod down aha was la latitude. 61 degrees north, loogttudo It degrees west, whence sho moved last and northeast 1.IG0 miles In eighty four da) a, or nt tho rato of about niteen mllea a day A strange feature nt this derelict was that at a distance slid aecmed to bo a well masted and well manned vessel Only when she wns nr reached closely could tho look out watch of snmo passing ship ob-scno ob-scno how picullarly sho waa navigated. navigat-ed. During her oxtrnordlnnry cruise ahe was rviorted by thlrt) sli vessels and had traversed upward of 6.000 miles when, off tho Hebrides, she was seen for the last lime and boarded A boarding officer nnd crew found her hold nearly full of water sho harlnc ovldently struck on Home reef, and sho waa In Imminent danger of going down Soon aftor being abandoned by her last lsltnra sho plunged beneath the waves. Her sinking with alt sills set. In a calm sea, was dcscribod by those, who saw It as a weird and un ennny sight Nona of her crow was ever reported found Tho case of the derelict Kngllih bark Hlddartha was an example ot a derelict getting too cork-urn and familiar nnd being caught napping. The Blddjrlha salUd from Jackson tllle and was abandoned by her crew when she was nearly a month oul Then that blessed bark bcan caiort Ing In the bine of trans At untie con nierca much as tho White tihost had done, being seen first lu one place and then n hundred miles away In the most surprising manner Hue was reported re-ported no less than fifty time, but managed to circumvent all govern ment veaaels sent out especially to dtnamlle ber. Finally one day get ting saucy to the point of foolhardl neas, so to say, she went merrily sail Ing up tho Irish coast. Thla waa her concluding oiplolt, for a Drills!, roatt of war went out and towod ber Into port, where she was broken up. A Tory curious caio of derelict vigarlea wns that of a i chouncr which was run down nnd cut lu two south of Nantucket so no mouths oko He Ing londiil with lumber she did not lnk Hull of her drlftid up to Sable Island and tho other half, turning south, skirled thu coakl and brutight up finally on the biach niar Capo llatturas One of the still veiled mysteries of thu sen wns thu casn of thu derelict Marin Celeste, a liar It found In tho Jlcdlti rraneau under full sail, as with tho White, and every ropo In place Her captain and crow had . disappeared, disap-peared, nnd nothing la known ot them to thla day. Until tho White llouso was remodeled re-modeled a year ago thore stood In tho chief etccullvo ofUco a memento ot tho most famous ot derelicts, tho llrlt-lh llrlt-lh ship Ilciwilute. It Is a desk mado of tho ship's timbers and presented to tho United States government by Queen Victoria as a reminder ot an International courtesy extended by Uncle Sam to John Hull forty nlno yours ago. Tho Ilesoluto was ono of tho vrsaels sent out for tho relief ot Sir John Franklin and his Arctic, ox-podlllnn ox-podlllnn In 1851. Sho was bottled up In Melvlllo bay and abandoned, being found four yenra later by a New England whaling vessel Just off Northumberland gulf. Sho was towed to Now London as tho property of thu ownirs of the whaler. Congress, however, how-ever, appropriated 20O,000 to buy tho prlie, which was subsequently returned re-turned lo I'ngland. When tho Iteso-lutn Iteso-lutn was broken up In 1S77 tho queeu bud n desk made from Its timbers and presented It to President Hnyea Heeldes derelicts, another ghostly peril which haunts the sleeping and waking ilrtatns of tho sailor folk Is tha pinnacle rock Of tho 1.707 ves sets und 1J00 Uvea that are recorded by the marlno aervlcea of both homls pbercs na having been lost, far more have been victims of ocean pinnacles than of derelicts As many of thoso pinnacles nra submerged sub-merged nnd as their Irregular form and distribution render It possible tor a ship to bo completely environed by Ham, us In n merciless maelstrom, every ev-ery effort of the shipbuilder has been cxcrtid to counteract this bogle lly meanj of wnttr tight compartments tho great ocean liners aro comparn lively Iramuno from danger ot sinking, sink-ing, no matter bow badly crippled they may be. Hut whllo tho ptnnaclo remains tho greatest, na well aa oldest, peril known to marlnora, tho Iceberg ghost has been effectually laid, savo In rare In A Famous Caribbean Qhoet-ehip Peing Towed to Havana atanoes. Wborens formerly collisions with Icebergs ucro common, even with tho great ocean liners, their navigators bother very little with the bergs to-day Tho hydrographlc charts show a doien collisions with derelicts and pinnacles to ono with Icebergs, oven In tbo spring and early Bummer, when tbo birgs uro most numerous In tho Atlantic. Tho reason is obvious. Tho derelict and submorgoj root create no disturbance to warn tbo approaching ap-proaching Teasel ot danger, whllo there Is Iba Ice gboit Now Vork Time. |