| Show 01 T ar EDWA EDWARD D CLAW M CAME spirit of gallantry on uthe fhe seas that moved the v ancient sailor moves his brother ther today toda y some ht history scoty BY NE euthin oo 00 A 12 W mf W 4 4 UNG G ill the continuance actions of 1 the v present r war ar there then have been recorded or F a acts it ot of gallantry fr Y and high it heroism r I 1 ii the bailers bailors oil ot of nearly all the catl nations 7 eng a ged the complete change that has ELS been made in the Vs vessels jw of 1 war ar sa 4 within the last I 1 1 a no n effect apparently upon pon the sailor flor ace 11 he Is the tha name a farl tearless and ad self if sac an 11 albig fish fighter or against in man and the that el elemen tB that ever he we waa in t the b 0 N north orth sea bud and in the much erra erm nean we re read a d almost dally daily ot of feet feats of con com per personal on 1 gallantry gil gd lantry lawrY on the part of the modern seamen sailors saflora are said to be much inch alike the world over the united states state 1 Is not en engaged arged in war but if it were it I 1 is believed that ou our r dread would be manned ed by tb the same hind nd ot of men that made famous t the lie constitution the can constellation all the he kearsarge Keara merge arge the hartford and the other or old frigates and ships of the line in the navy department in washington ni there ars are the tha records of american america Bai tora W daring on many a high big occasions c alons the seaman beaman always Is in danger being compelled to engage in instant ar with the elements so it 1 Is that where her there I 1 is pen peace e on land the sailor is never cure bare of peace at 6 aea a wind the wa wave and the lightning always leond seemingly am gly are to read ready y to declare hostilities and ad the then there are the other perils of the deep the derel derelict let the rock and when the fog hangs bangs heavy who the moving ship hi p whose e warning signals signal have been ibba unheard or ha have v e been misunderstood in the whole r record cord of serious disasters which have overtaken uncle sam a hips in if time of P peace there I 1 la it not at to be found one instance of lack of d discipline act ine care carelessness leness or cowardice the starts touch touching g the bearing of officers and crew of american ve vessels 1 overtaken by tern tem seas wrecked reeked 0 or cut to the waters water a edge by ral collision ligion are such as to make every amer american can feel eel that there has been no degeneracy in tile dia capune since the das of the elder porter bain bridge and decatur I 1 in in the number of men lost the accident to the maine leads all the other in that part of the navy 6 record written in time of peace in the first firer month of 11 the year 1870 the united states state team steam sloop samp of war oneida went to the hot turn torn of the bay of yeddo carrying with it 24 officers and men it Is questionable whether huther the account of the loss lose of this vessel bo be pie pleasant reading for british job eye ayea it we was a dark night and ad a foggy one the british merchant teamer steamer bombs bombay Y crashed into the stern to of the american america vessel I 1 and it practically carried away w its ila whole quarter th the british steamer we waa uninjured injured it pro ceeder on an its ita way refusing to answer the haila bail to stand by which came from frem the deck of the onelda oneida abarge A large umber number of the onelda 9 0 boata boat were stove I 1 in bud rendered useless nucleus into what were left 30 men told off were placed then the remainder indr took look their places place well wall fr f a and d waited awaited death I 1 in Is less as the than fifteen I 1 ft minutes fraim from r m the time of th the collision the oncida unk sank capt E P villains williams commanded the onelda oneida the men he ha caused to be placed in the boats were m the ship ships a sick th the surgeon was ordered to go w with h the I 1 invalids ild not one man maa of those to whom horn death was a certainty imi murmured i ed at the captain aach s act the surgeon and the sick saw a wi th tha men standing on the tha deck and fear tearlessly tearle bolly awaiting s 19 the rate fate which soon came it is perhaps forgotten forgot tm today outside of na naval nai I doi eased ad admiral sicard now new circles so that rear once lost by wrecking a vessel under his corn 1 last ot tober and wand mand it happened 48 years year ago 9 the scene of the wreck we was wood island in the south pacific the admiral was then a I 1 lemen net ant ciame commander wac I 1 in charge have of the united states state so saginaw it was the subsequent also steam sloop sleep genaw heroism of an officer bad and tour four men ot of the saginaw that marked ha be account of this disaster diesel as on one of american i aval 1 history of the bright pages the saginaw ran can 0 on a reef mw I 1 in a an unexplored d ac sea hour in the morning the no corn early it us was im an deck dark all 11 night alert bert mending off officer nor had ad be been on the fitfully idolly of that he was coming to knowing island speed was dimini blied I 1 tour four and ad goes half it kw knots while soundings 9 and ft a then to two with the tw lead were cons constantly athe made there was dead astern t bt breeze a ahead called breakers suddenly ill the lookout lockout command as given to back the eriel engines the bad bee beau bet at for an hodr boar and there ther topsails sails the top a c 1 in the B its steam plant was pat not power back while abu ib the wind I 1 in the he wool be the he hip chip Z to drive I 1 rd th the I 1 anaw il sued r it topi topsails sails reef iday drove tove her bar a gre great forward tb hole in I 1 wr her be bow and d the re track uke to he the wets boats screw or ere on compelled p cited to be em It ba ot or storm tr irom the ibba th tbt delarge dl 1 arge if quantities w wreck ek bud and with ich them land C e on a desert island hundreds of miles distant from the nearest point of possible communication with tile the civilized world the shipwrecked bip decked ma marsters marii ers were far out ot of the ordinary course of vessels basis and ad it seemed be it probable that only a bare chance cou d sa aae them fr from ultimate starvation after a week a stay on an the bee bare reef lieutenant commander card asked tor for five volu volunteers mews to man a small boat and on undertake a peril perilous 1 voy I age go ot of I 1 ml miles Is over ever a t trackless are ocean to H hono rin lulu nei ne nearly I Y every man in the ship a 5 company volunteered t to attempt a 0 journey of which there seemed buta but one chance in t a hundred of successful accomplishment the own commanding ding officer chose ramund lieutenant talbott talbot to ca command th the forlorn hope and chose tor for service under due III him C coxswain mr fit wll wil allm belford halcord beamen peter francis JI james melr boar wout and john andrews on one of the ship hip a boats waa partly decked over with mat material erfal from the wreck week of the saginaw A small most mast was stepped and provisions and 0 a compass w were we e put on an board then the expedition started while the wrecked crew cheered from the coral 01 0 1 reef the frail bark kept on it its way day and night for a week officer and me men taking two turn and ad t turn car about at the oars at times the wind wait waa w with tit them and then the a sail helped wonderfully df d f 1 y at then VI ul other hin times as w with ith th the b breeze d dead ah ahead d t they b e y could not but creep along v ork ng laberla laboriously u s 1 Y at the oars finally a anle Is overtook overlook them and for two too dais da a and two nights they expected to be overwhelmed ther thare we wag no sleep for any one of the little corn com puny pany and ad anile two tolled failed at the oars are to keep the craft a s bead lp ip to the wind the others baided baffled at last a map respite to 0 came bud and b by lot let one man we waa or selected to watch for an h hour in ahlie he the others othera slept for 24 hours they lay to try trying g to recover fr from the effects effect of the exertion cr 9 of fth the at struggle r buggle with mith the elements A large par part t of th the a provisions had been almost ruined mined by sea aea water and the supply of fresh water ran short then there were days of untold suffering the food was salt bait soaked and nauseous and created a burning thirst which the me men did not data daro to fully gratify because of the short shortness I 1 of the water supply strength was waa rapidly leaving them and e et t J it w was s uda aba necess necessary arv to toll toil at the car oara lie lieutenant ore t talbot a 0 t was waa til in almost unto onto death yet he be kept 1111 a 1 cheerful face and inspired the men by hla his example a p he ha worked with a will born ot of spirit rather the than of strength one day after a computation lieutenant tal hot came am to the conclusion that owing to an error in an instrument they bad get gone out at of their course r th the information came like a deathblow carce to the men a there them w was nothing wh u g to d do th however mor but to change the vessel a head and go on once onca more more mon days passed by and the exhaustion of two of the men we waa so great that they could not of sit it I 1 in their places place at the oars am but tell fell loan inert to the bottom of the boat the co condition edition ot of all was desperate their tongues were so abou swollen 0 that they could not swallow the little tood food t they b had bad toward evening of that dreadful day land was sighted lieutenant talbot and coxswain list hal lord ford managed to make bome headway with the oara or and ad a fi f favoring I g br breeze so helped at daylight the next of ro morning the bhore above lay before the them but a mile ill distant tant a heavy line of breakers Int In erver ing no R bryand the white wall ot of surf sort they saw men me on the beach at that moment of supreme joy their boat struck a roc rock and in 0 moment was overturned all the members ef p t that hat ionic heroic crew were too weak to struggle and all save one was drowned when hen thelong the long bought u land was alm almost 0 t under their feet fast C coxswain ani belford managed t to struggle gh for a few minutes with the waves wave the then he we was caught by a bee breaker berand and thrown on to the sandy shore here ho he we was re resuscitated with difficulty and ad the then he f toun 1 he be we was on no the bailo beach ot of one of the hawaiian islands and that he waa the wily only sur or divor ivor of the boat bell I a crew ile he told hla his story and within 2 24 hours hear t two strainers term wera or d dispatched top it h ad I from honolulu alulu to the rescue of Lieu lieutenant temen GO corn to adil me roander 1 sicard and ad lifis hla men who were found well and ad ho hearty arty though liv living i ng on acme what w short hurt to ra tlona we on the sands ad and reefs reef of 1 samoa 27 21 Y years I 1 ago were wrecked the united states vessels ire trenton man vendetta and lipsic forty carty seven a american Amort can ton cera can and men there them lost their lives the story atory of the logs jose of the ve vessels 1 bud and lives live be has ut in it the recital of a showing hawing of undaunted ad led american heroism coupled with romance which it to IB lard jard to equal in the truthful annals of the sea at the time ot of t the he wrecking of the yankee vessels three german warships were destroyed the tha loss lose a olife upon them being much heavier that thai upon ours the german vess vessels 1 l iver were the olga adler and eli eber thu there was la in the samoan saloan harbir at the same time her majesty a ship calliope this ve vessel east was the only one which went through that awful battle hurricane unscathed it owed ad its safety not to superior seamanship but to the fact that its powerful e engines gines enabled it to put to sea bad and there with pr prow to tile the blast outride the storm on friday march 15 1889 at one a 0 clock in the afternoon beli indications ratio of b d weather were ap parent on the horrigon hor the coming disturbance was a first noticed by the american comm commanders com mandera andare who at once made preparations preparation to meet it the lower yards were left down w th the t topmasts top P most masts h housed bd fires lighted and steam waa raised fis d ati the trenton floge flagship hip held the outer her berth t h while th the alipate held the inner at three 0 el clock 0 c k it w waa bo b blowing in wing a gale an hour later the port bow cable of the trenton parted the vandalia Van dalls tried its beat to steam out in the face ace of the gale gal but there was i not power enough in its ita engines engine to keep the ves eel I a head he d in the t h 0 teeth tooth p af pf the blast and the ship went wen crashing 9 on e n a reef all night long the storm increased in violence td th the flagship at daylight lost I 1 its wheel bud and though relieving tackle and a spare tiller were instantly attached it was found that the rudder we was broken and they were useless the tren ton wait waa leaking badly and though bedding mas jammed into the fissures and all hands hand went to 0 work boiling bailing the ant water r gained and soon boon put out arenton the fire alrea two of the trenton a 8 anchor held and it was not yet swept ept from it its moorings moorte s at halt past pact nine on the morning of sat saturday zay the hurt hurr cane was at its ita heig height I 1 in the afternoon the wind hauled a bit and the flagship parted it its two chains and drifted toward the eastern reef magnificent seem seamanship hip on the part of captain farquhar and hla his gaviga navigating ing out raaf cera care kept the vessel from striking the reef the attempt was made to set storm atom sails but it was ineffectual then a last harar hazardous dim I 1 experiment was a tried the men were are ordered to the yards there to form a living ing sail ball as they stood with ath their bodies in 11 a 1 compact pact mass side bids by aid side and with arms encircled abud to attempt to mount aloft in that bu hurricane seemed elected certain death F fearing fog that the there might ight be h hesitancy as ifancy to obey naval Z nv cadet jackson little more than a buy boy a sprang prong to the ladder and led the way aloft followed by the crew finally the trenton reached the vini city of the vandalla pendell which was waa on the reef with great seas breaking over it every moment and rapidly going to pieces piece captain of the vandalla with many of his men and officer had bad been bee swept apt overboard and drowned ion long if before the commander mm ends had been on the bridge through tile the whole of the storm and weakened finally by the constant pounding of the waves he was unable to tend stand the strain test his hia last word we was on of 0 en an coura rage gemen moot I 1 and ad nope hope to 11 hla men and ad then than with four our others other he was carried to lie his do death th of the officer and crew of the vandall vandalia Van dalta in at the time the trenton came alongside 39 were dead be rest at were in the th rigging agg ng expecting every moment that the masts owe to would wool go by the board and that they the would meet the fate f of their comrades I 1 hen be the trenton s office me 1 daw the pe im flu position of the tha gandalfa vendettas Vand Vend alfa ettas B crew they resolved to save their brothers rockets with lines line attached were sent over the vandalia a rigging and the the trenton a men began the dangerous I 1 ort culk of man saving moving capin captain n farquhar ordered the flagships band lot into the rigging where the musiel clana war wera lashed chev had bad I 1 their fir instruments instrument with them pie v the star spangled banner ordered crusted cap tl tain farquhar music |
