Show STORIES S OP OF rhe THE SEA f A remarkable COLLISION AND A persevering RESCUE two ships that came ce together r i in storm without jani banike alre strange Stra nr rato of f a stanch V I 1 by tha tile sight of a flag A gallant ae deed d let people who think there are no yankee sailors in these days go down to fred pred col cotela fl in south street it is true that one will find very few yankees who are sailing bafo before m the mast but the yankee captain and t the be yankee first mate and the yankee second mate and the yankee who used to be one or the other but has since obtained a soft berth on shore gather at Col cotts to spin sea twisters fit to make the landsman gasp ever know captain lawson E J lawson r on lies iles in the carpet department of one of those big brooklyn stores now said one of the story spinning crew yesterday twenty odd years ago he was one of a crew of the brigantine blattle bishop dishop captain weber she sailed out of portland one day with plaster tor for now york off cape cod it came on to blow hard and the fog was that thick you see thre 3 ships lengths away so they beaded headed her hex off shore across the georges where they came so near running down a fisherman that it made goose pimples rise all over them and then with only a balance reefed beefed mal mainsail sail a lower topsail and two stay sails to ta keep her going they held on very comfortably fort ably until after 10 I 1 lawson had the wheel that trick and it was the second mates matel watch swatch lawson had been there half an hour when the second mate saw a light to windward and the next neat minute a great british bark running light and tree free loomed out of the tog fog headed right across the bows of the little brig captain weber ordered the wheel up and up it went while the barks wheel was put down but in a minute more captain we weber ber saw that it was too late CAPTAIN LAW SOiS 11 well hero here we go boyll said lie and then before any ono one could say my another er w word ord the be bark rose over one wave the brig over another and sinking down in the trough between the two v vessels asels came together broadside on with a tremendous crash the blow broke off the stanchions all along the weather side of the brig and knocked the men of the watch below from their berths but by some miracle neither mast nor yard was injured As the watch below wow came tumbling up on deck the next wave lifted anil and parted the two vessels but they crashed together a second timo time immediately after and then within A minute a third time then the two forged apart the bark carrying the brigs anchor which had bad in some way caught in her chains and hauling out twenty five fathoms of the chain cable before the stock broke then there was a ying about to see we what damage had been done A few ni minutes later as the brig her nose into the sen a man was washed away and lawson heard cries for help alongside 2 none aoe could be rendered but the mans leg caught on al drifting rope and he climbed on board then to the astonishment of every one both the brig and the bark were found tight aa as a bottle it is probably the only case on record where two vessels collided J ed in a gale of wind and yet neither ve acs eel se was seriously hurt there is a flag in the possession of ft A sailors Bai lors wife living out on long island said another of the party that was once the ensign of the brig city mole of portland captain hugh sinned sinnett the flag was given to the lady as a token of appreciation of what you may call the gallant gallant act of her husband im sorry ive forgotten his name the city mole sailed from savannah one oneda day yin in Septem september berwith with bard hard pino pine for porto alico she had bad eight men all told on beard the second day out she took a cyclone and got into such a rough sea that there was no keeping the solid water off her ber deck first a wave came over and crushed in the booby hatch the next jumped the flying Jibb ooin out of her the fore and main topmasts top masts broke short off the canvas was blown away and there she vm as unmanageable as a raft and aud tho the water pouring into the hull bull at every roll A TI I 1 CAPTAIN of co courna urso she was waterlogged within halt half an hour and the waves were making king A clean sweep boats the galley spare spars water barrels and everything movable about deck went overboard while the after house was cleaned out but the root remained solid and there the crew found refuge all of them but the captain at lashed themselves fast because the waves at intervals made a breach clear across the roof the captain did so too after awhile he ile had fallen asleep through exhaustion when a wave caught him and away he went waking suddenly ho he made a grasp at the housetop and drove a clear through his right hand ills his body bwy swung around over the side into tho the van ea but out the bolt sticking through his hand band lold fast as did the nerves and muscles of the tire band and his life was saved for r three days the crew lay on the bouse housetop top almost helpless fortunately the ships flag was saved and this was set anlon down oua on a scantling nailed to tho the house on the evening ot of the third day a little brig belonging on long island came along and the distress signal was seen the rhe water around was strewn with lumber that had been knocked out of the broken hull but tho the long inlander islander got cl close 0 0 o to the wreck and shouted that he would stand by until morning the sea was wll too high and the night too near for a rescue the crew had before this brig appeared become hopeless and one man had gone crazy for they had bad had nelta neither erford food nor drink since the disaster now all but the insane man were greatly revived I 1 and the night waa was passed in comparatively rood good cheer you can imagine then how they felt when borni morning ax came capoand and the long islander nowhere in 11 however however that skipper wua wits a genuine yankee sailor ho ile cruised about until noon looking for the w wreck reek and then although a wind that would let him lay his course tour was blowing lie determined to sail thirty milea down wind before giving up the search just at sundown ho he overtook the wreck which having the crossed cron sed with some strips of tho the sail on it bad had drifted with the wind the long inlander islander had his wife with jiam when captain had bad been listed from roni the wreck he asked that the flag be riven given to the lady and it was done I 1 new york yun sun |