Show strange things happen to vessels at sea during storms and in accidents during a hurricane in the caribbean in 1906 a british tramp st steamer iamer the D was caught by what her crew described as a tidal wave they sold caid it m must have been nearly feet high and that th the a big steamer was carried on its summit like a chip in a mill race at last she stopped with a bump and when daylight ca came me she was in a pine forest mori more than yards from the beach reports a writer in london answers magazine adock A dock was dug around her and a canal to the sea she was re 00 floated abed and went under her own steam to galveston where she was repaired in the following february she delivered her cargo safely in london extraordinary things happen at sea but perhaps nothing harder to believe than the fati fate of the large wooden schooner schoon erFred fred B taylor she was run down by a steamer in thi the atlantic and cut in two her crevi crew was waa saved the bow half drifted to delaware bay on the american coast the stem came ashore on ascenso ascension on island miles away one more e story tory almost almost equally strange thi the Bil british tish mercedes laden with iron ore was off newfoundland when caught in a severe electric the whole ocean was like an endless stretch ot of prairie fires and balls of electric electr la fare hissed and exploded in all directions ions among the vessels masts mast and rigging A heavy gala sprang spring up and the heavily laden ship was badly damaged I 1 As the gale died ou out t the fireballs appeared again great cam corn po which hung in big globes from thi the masts and stays and turned night might into day by their light repairs were effected which enabled affie tha vessel to reach port |