Show closed her career in glory final chapter in history of proud yankee clipper one which seamen of all nationalities will hail as a fittin fitting and proper end in these days when every item of tho the history of oc tho the old american square riggers la Is pre precious clous it Is a happy moment when somebody turns up who can add to the story E N 13 debes of tile the bethlehem shipbuilding corporation at fore river Is ono one of these with n history of his big own Illi elmost ns picturesque as that 0 of f the lite ship lie he knew says the bosto n globe lie came from kragero Kro gero 11 small town on the southeast coast of norway when lie he was it a b boy oy tile 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 tier lier to know that she was popularly called the little hell and her master captain Ingebret lisen was known as the devil of the lie north sen sea these things are compliments among partly hardy people tile the titles meant that the captain was a sail carrier and a river driver tho the still was no place for a soft man but to ship in her meant that a man was proud of tits his hardness and feared nothing that a n sail aall carrier or a bucko mate could hand out captain Ingebr ethson Is gone years ago and tits son Is now a shipmaster through this connection with its his boyhood home sir ir debes was able to write the final chapter in the story of the nightingale she lost 1 in a gale on the banks of newfoundland in 1892 a fact apparently not known to capt arthur it II dark clark who wrote tile the clipper ship era air debes shows allows lie ho Is a true sea seaman titan and it true norseman for lie says 1 I take great pleasure in the fact that she went down in harness and without lost of life find and that eliat she did not share in the fate of many a proud yankee clipper of being reduced to n coal barge wallowing along at the end of it a tow line the nightingales story Is romance from start to finish site she was built in portsmouth intended to be a passenger ship and to carry tourists to the worlds fair at london in IS 18 jl 51 in her original plan she ehe was all staterooms state rooms and saloons find and was luxuriously urious ly outfitted she was loco tons register feet long find and 30 feet la in beam with a depth of 20 feet she carried for a figurehead figure head a beautiful bust of jenny und the swedish nightingale for whom she was named when she was waa nearly completed tier her owners fell short of money sit samuel II Il anscom her builder went right along with tier her however find and completed ills his contract she was launched during the year 1851 sho she was finally sold to sampson tappan for and put into trade as one of oc the great fleet of racing clippers in 1852 she was in the ocean race of seven american and british ships from china to england the race that was never decided capt samuel mather had bad her for the years that sampson tappan owned her she made a number of fast passages though she does docs not hold the records sampson tappan sold tier her to a salem firm which sent bent her to rio illo there she was wap bought and put into the african slave trade under the brazilian hag flag and on april 21 1801 in the harbor of kalenda Ka ICa benda 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 1804 the ship was sent to th the e boston navy yard at Charles charlestown town at that time tier lier figurehead was a carving meant to represent the head bond and neck of an american eagle it was removed from the ship and was mounted outside the door of the corn com mandanis mand ants office after the civil war slie was sold to norwegian owners OBI nad she sailed under the flag of norway for the rest of oe tier her life |