Show closed her career in glory final chapter in history of proud yankee clipper one which seamen of all nationalities will hail as a fitting and proper end when every item of 61 in n these days the history of 0 the old american square riggers Is precious it Is a happy moment when somebody turns up who can add to the story K B B debos debes of the bethlehem shipbuilding corporation at fore river kiver Is 19 one of those these with a history of his own almost as picturesque as that of the ship lie he knew says the boston globe lie he came from kragero Kro gero a small town 0 on n tile the southeast coast of norway when he was a boy the pride of tile the town was a smart old yankee clipper ship it helped to build up the thrill the boys got out of her to know that she was popularly called th the e little hell and tier her roaster master captain Ingebret lisen was known as the deil 0 of f the north sen sea these things are compliments among fardy people the titles meant that the captain was a sail carrier and a driver the ship was no place for a soft man B but ut to ship in her meant th that it ft a man was proud of his big hardness and feared nothing that a sail carrier or a bucko mate could hand out captain Is gone cone years ago and his son Is now a shipmaster through tills this connection with his boyhood home sir mr debes was able to write the final chapter in the story of the nightingale she was lost in a gale on the banks of 0 newfoundland in 1892 a fact apparently not known to capt arthur 11 II clark who wrote the clipper ship era mr lir debes shows that he is a true seaman and a true norseman for he says 1 I take great pleasure in the fact that she went down in harness and without jos loss of life and that she did not share n the fate of many a proud yankee clipper of being reduced to a coal barge wallowing along at tile the end of erf a tow line the nightingales story Is romance from start to finish she was built in portsmouth intended to he be a passenger ship and to carry tourists to the worlds fair at london in 1851 in her original plan she was all staterooms state rooms and saloons unit and was luxuriously urious ly outfitted she was logg tons register feet long and 06 feet in beam with a depth of 0 20 feet she carried tor for a figurehead figure head bead a beautiful bust of jenny lind the swedish nightingale for whom she was named when she was nearly completed her owners fell short of money samuel hanscom Hans coro her builder went right along with tier her however and completed h his Is contract she was lau launched ached during the year 1851 1831 she was finally sold to sampson tappan for and put into trade as one of the great fleet of racing clippers in 1852 slie she was in the ocean race of 0 seven american and british ships from china to england the race that was never decided capt samuel mather had her for the years that sampson 7 tappan owned her she made a number of fast passages though she does not hold alip records sampson tappan sold her to a salem firm which sent her to rio there she was bought and put into the african slave trade under the brazilian flag and on april 21 1881 1861 in the harbor of kalenda Ka Na benda tienda near the mouth of the congo river she was captured by the U S S saratoga which found 1000 slaves aboard of her the slaves were liberated and the ship was brought to new york by a prize crew in the ship was sen sent to t the he boston navy yard at A at t that time her figurehead was a carving meant to represent the head and neck of an american engle eagle it was removed from the ship and was mounted outside the door of the commandants mand ants office after the civil war she was sold to norwegian owners and sho she sailed under the lag flog of norway for the rest ot of her life |