| Show adu d ADVENTO adventurers ERS CLUB ff afa HEADLINES FROM TH THE LIVES ElIVES jp 0 OF F PEOPLE LIKE YOU RS EL fl t 94 storm on the north sea H ELLO EVERYBODY AA put on your oil skins boysan boys and d girls and come aboard were off to sea in bad weather with henry S cowden of chicago with the lee shore of adventure off to starboard and a heavy gale blowing us right smack into it A intha in the spring of 1896 hank Cow cowden d en w was a s second mate on the ae four masted bark stanley of liverpool homeward bound from Cal calcutta cutia india with acar a cargo goof of jutland jute and cotton for hamburg germany ji it was the twenty sixth of march and eStanley th had passed through the english channel and the straits of mover dover and was sloughing ploughing hing along through the north sea it was the morning watch and hank was at the wheel aheady A heavy mist hung over the sea and the captain was standing at hanks side gazing anxiously to starboard to i hank he said pwe wa fiust must be near land mister even though we cant see it inthis in this log fog keep deepa a good lookout and see see that the lead Is used every ten minutes if any a squalls make up in the north calami call me at once ingoing im going down to breakfast the cap captain was ione gone and bank Hank was alone at the wheel A squall did come comeux up but it came up so suddenly hat hank even have time time to warn the i captain it caught thi he 5 ship under tan full sill sail ditore it tore the royals and topgallants top gallants to ribbons and blew the stanley off its course with the change inthe in the wind the fog began to lift the captain came on en deck and ordered hank aloft to iq 1 look 1 for land ss sia starboard breakers I 1 peril ship hank got as faras tar as the fo ore cross trees there Therel he could see over the tog fog andee and he have to jo go any farther joithe to i the starboard were breakers and the shap was almost into hank anew knew then and there that tha 1 t the ship wis was doomed A strong wandw wind was al s blosl blowing them straight into those breakers breikers and there was no sea sea room to 6 make a a Seti getaway ivay s by this toils time the wind had risen ito to a gale and colls coils of h hilliards halli U ar ards ds and braces were being washed through 1 the ports or over thes the side lale A at t nine th the wiship ship ran abrou aground nd with a shock that sounded like the f aoe W r hank caught a rop rope i and was hauled aboard 1 report of abig a big gun it threw the men flat anthe on the deckand deck and seas began breaking over the ship carrying away two boats the and galley imd and everything movable on deck i water began pouring ln into the hold in an hour the fore top mast carried away and fell aft the stanley was wag rapidly breaking to pieces we carried screw a crew of thirty three says hank and the captains wife anti and two year old son were aboard we bad two remaining j boits boats but there was wa a no use tryl trying ng to Asun launch cht them hem then no boat could live in that sea we were grounded off te tex K el island and we were all hoping i that the lighthouse located there here would sight sigh us and send help but personally I 1 did not think the ship would hold together long AU all daylong day long the seas battered the ship the wa water ferIn in the hold was making the cotton and lute jute bales swell and the decks were bulging toward night they tried to la launch i a boat hank an and d th throe ree other seamen were to in it when the seas began washing aver over it hank Harik ca caught aught a rope and was hauled aboard when ditke the boat capsized the ther other three men were drowned I 1 1 all this time the gale was I 1 increasing in ii fury now the chart house bousi was jone gone and the were pouring into the cabin the last remaining lifeboat was smashed the crew took to the rigging and the captains wili wife climbed to the cross trees like a sailor while the captain brought the baby wrapped in a shawl distress rockets save endangered men the tog fog had lifted and they could see gee the lighthouse on texel island Islan dibut but there was no sign of helpin help in sight with darl darkness mesi coming on says hank I 1 was sure our number was up night tell fell land and still we were maro marooned boned ln in the rigging but at midnight the wind abated considerably tt the ie first mate mr sleeves anda and I 1 went down into the p place ace where the cabins used u 1 eato to be an and d brought out a watertight case of dis distress tresi rockets 7 those rockets saved the day they aey set off three in rapid succession and a few moments litter later they saw saw a great blue flare go up op in the vicinity of the he lighthouses light housea a ignal that their heir rockets dockets had bad been seen but could help reach them they I 1 know mo w morning came still the sea was empty end and there ther ewas was no ho re relief eliet in n sight betat but at eight they sighted a sail and tand in half an hour a lifeboat from texel island wai was hailing them A line was thrown aboard and 16 people including abe the captains wife and baby were taken aboard lastman last man to jump off the boat sixteen was all the boat would hold in about an hour a ships boat from the steamer hercules of amsterdam arrived and took ot the rest of the crew including hank hank was the last man to jump off the ill fated stanley tho the boat carried teem through rough beasl seas alto 0 o the he Ber hercules cules and he Xer hercules cules landed them hem in mien men alep holland there hank learned that the stanley had not been the only unlucky ship enthat in that nights storm five hundred bundled fishermen had bad lost thel their r lives in it hank has quit the sea now and settled down ashore but I 1 wonder if once in a while awhile he wish he were back on a rolling roiling deck again in spite of such things as cafes gales and ind ships aground in the north sea how about it 11 hank 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