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| November 4, | Magazine Section] Los Angeles Herald Sunday Supplement. 19Oe>l JONAHS OF THE DEEP a vessel owner realizes that he is she, went ashore on Dungeness in a storm, but the proprietor of a "hoodoo" ship he was towed off unhurt. A German bark ran W~~*IHEN\u25a0\u25a0— prepares to accept the inevitable and into her and sank itself the year following, with- &&\u25a0£&( get rid of bad bargain as best he nan. out doing much damage to the Hardacre, which a became known aa Once a vessel has achieved such a rep- the "Hard-to-Kill." utation, a blight seems to descend After driving ashore near Yarmouth in a fog, upon all the persons connected with the owner- and sinking a vessel fishing on the Newfound- ship impossible to land Banks not long afterwards, she broke down or management.' It.is almost Channel, to the get a cargo a cargo in the and was driven on French and when has been secured in it is almost impossible to get a crew. The fame coast a gale, her crew being taken off by the of the veim-l. has |gone ;to. the. farthest . corners rocket apparatus. Though posted at first as a of the earth and sailors decline all offers to sail total wreck, she was towed* off, patched up, and fjL, sent on a voyage to the Argentine, where her on her.' :*\u25a0;."''""- \u25a0 \u25a0'\u25a0-^'\u25a0\u25a0'"'''^ pilot "piled up" on b dangerous ,T,TT, H. her reef in bad .The A. Berwind was as fair a craft as ever die, ;sailed.. She was launched only twelve years ago weather. Still she refused to for she was and ordinary refloated and docked, sent to sea once more, and under circumstances should have home, been good for many years of usefulness, but after was run into by a cattle-boat on the way a most remarkable but, by amazing good luck, was not sunk. Her career she recently went to end, —or pieces on the Isle of Pines. Almost with her repairs, from beginning to cost $55,000 launching on rather more than twice her value. She continued she bounded in a career of crime age, and bloodshed. Upon the occasion of her first unkillable until she wore out with old and trip, which was to Philadelphia, she collided with was condemned by the Board of Trade. another craft and was seriously damaged. Sail- SUNK AND REFLOATED SIX TIMES. ing from Philadelphia she had a fighting crew, which made endless trouble. Two months after One of the most astonishing records held by her christening there wan a tragedy which re- any ship was that of the British bark Emer- sulted in the hanging of one man, and always ald, which, becoming unmanageable off Cape after this there was some dissension of a more Horn, was driven by wind and tide through the less serious character 'Hie still more curious fact is that in only one or on hand with the mem- terrible Magellan Straits and out un- of wrong, bers of the Incidentally to came those ten collisions was she in the and crew. this, the Ber- at other end, though Bhe had made in cases owners wind was always having more trouble in the line scathed the the other nine the of the vessels a good part of the voyage sideways, or stern that collided with her had to pay for her dam- of collisions and accidents on the high seas than first, ages as any Only on between the terrible walls of rock and well as their own—the former amounting boat ever known. October 12 of full-powered to year signals displayed tidf-races, which only the finest in all over $30,100. Itwas often marvelous last distress were from but her off Snuthport, N.C, and she. was boarded by steamers under thorough control attempt to face. how she escaped sinking, as all the collisions Her performance is unique, and not likelyever 6ne took place on the high seas, and she had the men from the schooner Blanche T. King and were never three colored sailors battered and bruised were to be beaten for the odds against her about luck to be struck in a vital spot. Apart found on board. The remainder the same as one would give a runaway fourin- from her own little bill for repairs, she did of the crew had $21.">,000 damage by affairs," been killed in a fight. The Berwind has now hand coach galloping from end to end of Broad- worth of her "little found her grave on the beach of the Isle of Pines, way without coming to grief. and yet she never came to grief by any hazard a total wreck and posßibly no tears will be shed Her rival in that performance^ strangely of the seas, beinpr at present a storeship of the over her untimely demise. enough, was a ship that had a record of escapes Spanish Navy. hardly short of the miraculous This was the The magnificent liner Paris, well known by all SAILED INTO A FLEET. Diomcde, a small cargo steamer, that wan sunk who cross to the United States, holds one rec- no less than fixtimes in twelve years, and raised ord which, if she had no other, would prove her Last year there was sold on the Clyde for time, among to bear charmed life up to breaking up purposes, steamer Hardacre, each which conntitutes a record all a date. She is the the iron the ships in the world. She was sunk first in only vesßel of any size that ever escaped with which had maintained a record for death and the year she was built by striking some floating her life from the terrible Manacles Rocks, off the destruction for thirty yenrs. The boat was in wreckage in the Downs, and "total loss" was Cornish coast. Itis several years ago now since collision twice, had the lifeboat put out to her over salvage company bought she struck upon that reef, years paid her. A the dreaded but many four running, remained the perpetual joy wreck cheap from the underwriters, nnd raised people may remember the stir it caused, and the of insurance companies, and yet nothing could her, at no great cost. In hfr third year she wan agitation for a lighthouse on the Manacles that killher. In all these disasters she scarcely did sunk again, in the Hudson River, nnd raised, followed. herself any dnmacrc. and she is known far and and it was the voyage following this v.hat she wide as a ship a on TOO TOlicyi FOR THE MANACLES. with hoodoo record. was wrecked on Sable Island, but save] from She was built in the late 'Seventies, and on finally enjoyed She had four hundred and fifteen passengers • total loss. She the distinction of aboard, ier first voyage she distinguished herself by run- having been Runk in every one of the five oceans besides her crew, hut did not lose one ning amuck through the Channel Fleet at night, of the world, except the Antarctic, but always of them, all being landed safely. A large part side-lights out, they not torn with both her for would in water just shallow enough to allow her to he of her under-body was clean away, and it cast adrift a up so often; badly met warships, was torpedo-mine), in the Channel in | nd patching yet she has carried in was run down in the Channel and dam- burn. She nineteen steel includ- raised. At last she was condemned ns too old thought unlikely she would ever float ugain. over top | aged voyage, ing destroyers, traveling nt gale, driven the of the Goodwin Sands her time half a million tons of merchandise on her maiden causing the loss of full speed in close and for sea, and is now a quarantine hulk Inspite of that, «he was eventually rescued at water two yet • coasts, lives; formation, was so unfit by clever from high unhurt, sunk yachts, and about the Knglish weathered some of the three she has since been three times en and closely shaved that one the West Indies. the rooks engineering, and towed stoni)3 blew, fire, hipped her taffrail. in into has never caused the loss of a life,either of her | worst that and her hull remains so once sunk and raised again, once in a col- It would hardly seem worth even a "wrecker's" Falmouth. The weather luckily held fine dur- own crew or any other vessel's. This pleasing |sound that she now fulfills the role of store-hulk lision, twice ashore, and finally sailed from Rio while to have tried to sink the tramp-steamsT ing the operations. course, small-pox hospital. TOO OLD TO DO MORE DAMAGE. luckiest, program was achieved at various times, of tn a floating two years ago, and has never been heard nt Vandal, which till lately held a world's record One of the and at the same tirnp UO- not all at once. As an example of the strangely different luck since. The other has never had the smallest mis- She sank one torpedo-boat, two having been in ten collisions at sea in seven luckiest, vessels that ever floated, is humble have, caused others for vessel, an which two similar vessels may a pair of hap. An odd fact is that the former unlucky ves- to collide, and came out of the encounter having years. Unlike the last-mentioned t-lie ban Thames coasting-barge called the Ada, which ha* LAUNCHED ON A FRIDAY.

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