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Capt. Durkee also had many other strange stories to tell of the trip from Cardiff to the Antipodes. One of these was a new sailor who was clipping the rust off the chains. He was such a hard work that he chipped right through one of the bark’s plates and the water started to come in. The vessel then had to be laid up at Montevideo. The only accident reported by the capitals was that one of his sailors had fallen from the topmast and broken both his wrists. The man was put ashore at St. Helena. One of the fastest runs of the bark was between Montevideo and Adelaide, a distance of 10,000 miles, which was made in 38 days. Fifty-eight days were taken in the return trip from Adelaide to New York. * * * * *
Eastport’s Whaleboat Reaches Jacksonville
Skipper Johnson Safe after First Leg of Long Voyage from Maine to the Pacifi c Mathias Johnson and his whaleboat,
GEORGE WASHINGTON, of Eastport, Maine, is in port. Capt. Johnson said that he bought the boat at Portsmouth, New Hampshire from the naval offi cials and he was told that the craft is the gig which was on board the fl agship OLYMPIA with Admiral Dewey at the battle of Manila Bay. Like the famous outfi t of the NANCY LEE, Johnson is the skipper, the cook and the captain bold and the crew of the captain’s gig. He made his way down the Atlantic coast from Maine. He left Eastport on Sunday, August 3, he arrived in Jacksonville Wednesday and shares attention with his miniature cruiser, which is about the size of the average rowboat, with one mast and an auxiliary mast and jib for fair weather. Capt. Johnson has made the trip alone so far, and while San Francisco via the Panama Canal is hi destination, he is more than likely to make the rest of the voyage in the same select company.
Capt. Johnson is as husky and vigorous looking as his craft frail and is the mayors of Portsmouth, Boston, Atlantic City and many other ports for the chief executive of San Francisco, Capt. Johnson is blithely pursuing his lonesome way to Pacifi c waters. Barring a few almost fatal accidents, nothing but heavy winds and high waves have interfered with the complete enjoyment of Capt. Johnson’s tale and original idiosyncrasy. To be sure, while rounding
Cape Robaine a most familiar not to say coarse and rather rude wave gave the GEORGE WASHINGTON a sudden twist that threw Skipper Johnson into the sea and only some very rapid swimming and heroic effort fi nally made the desired connection that fi nally made possible his Tuesday sailing up the St. Johns River to Jacksonville.
In addition to the limited spread of sail, his gig whaleboat is equipped with a three-horsepower engine. This, however, has gone out of commission and for several hundred miles he has been using the winds alone. The lone mariner has stopped at all landing ports on the Atlantic seaboard. He is securing from the mayors of all large cities on the seaboard letters of greetings to the mayor of San Francisco, and expects to fi gure in connection with the San Francisco Exposition by reason of the unique methods of traveling from Maine to San Francisco. After repairing his engine here he will
go to Key West, span the waters to Cuba, will go thence to Jamaica, navigate across the Caribbean Sea, pass through the canal after January 1, and on the up-trip on the Pacifi c Ocean enter the GOLDEN GATE with his small sail with the Stars and Stripes at the masthead on February 22, Washington’s birthday. Capt. Johnson on his voyage down the coast touched at Boston on August 20 and secured a letter from Mayor Fitzgerald.
29 November 1913 The Storm That Sank the PORTLAND Fifteen Years Ago
Maine Steamer Sailed Out of Boston to Her Doom in Gale that Wrecked 141 Vessels and Cost 469 Human Lives. It is 15 years ago that the New England coast was swept, on November 26 and 27, 1898, by the most destructive storm in its long tempestuous history, writes William U. Swan in the Boston Transcript. In the 15 or 20 hours that the hurricane raged 141 vessels were wrecked and 469 lives were lost, including 189 human beings who went down on the steamer PORTLAND, whose destruction with all on board has given a name to this particular disturbance. It is now generally believed in marine circles that the PORTLAND came within (?) and perhaps 20 miles of reaching her destination at Portland, Maine, or in other
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