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Show SMALL SAILING VESSEL HAS PERILOUS VOYAGE Ql'RENST. iVX, Jan. 29. The hardships of crossing the Atlantic In a sailing vessel In mid-winter wore! shown by the experience r the Norwegian Nor-wegian bark Slrdal, which gave Up the lit. ptpt alter spending 7.". .lays at sea ami has returned to this port with h r bulwark stove In and much of h. i canvas In rags. Most of her crew were either ill or worn out by fatigue and exposure N. it her vessel nor men w ere fit foi further conflict with angry seas The Slrdal left Christlansand as far back as October 22, bound for Barbadoc-s and carrying only ballast. Almost from tho start she encountered encoun-tered heavy westernly sales but made her way a far west as mid-Atlantic, whence she was driven north to the coast of rjabrador and then almost uver to Iceland. Several times she was throwi on her beam ends, her decks were incessantly swept by seas. Rabins flooded anil riggings so strained strain-ed that It was feared the masts would go. One man f.-ii from aloft ln a gale and was killed. |