A SEAFARING ROMANCE.
' The. possibilities' of a seafaring, romance are suggested,: by . the following ' advertisement, which ' recently -. appeared V in. — tlio ■ Liverpool "Daily Post" regarding the. four-masted barque Silberhorn, .which was. lost .while on a voyage from. Newcastle -.pi.S.W.)! tolquiqne"Wanted, a;respectable sailor, who.has sailed with Captain John Benjamin" Warren, late of/the. fourmasted barque Silberhorn, who is supposed .to be' lost, to go; to Valparaiso to identify the aboVenamed man.' For: particulars, apply to John Gray,; Spring House, Slyne. Road, Skorton, Lancaster." • •'' ■ '•• •
r liie suggestion is that .Captain who was supposed to have .been lost with the barque some .18 . mouths ago; may .bo still. "Jnlive. On June. 12, : 1007, the bilberhorn, which was owned by- 'a .Ljverpbol . firm; mailed from - Newcastle, with .a cargo .'of coal .for, Inuiqne.! When about half-way across' the . Pacific she 1 was -spoken. Weeks slipped , by; and nothing was.'heard of the ship; ■ On November 27 slie waa!posted os missingi- vA -few days 'later-; a l '.furthers report in tegard ; to.'-the-Silberhorn was received; The Gcrmnnjkailirig ,vessel the Anny reported' that on .August:-28;: 1907, : ,sho passed a -burning sailing, ship, .apparently with: a full-cargo. , The only letters visible; on. the. vessel -were "ool," This 111-fated; sli ip was close'to Juan Fernandez. !-. ;it, was suggested at tHo time that the burnm? hull, whs .that of the Silberhorn. und' the opinion was 'ehter.tained .that some of the. crew might."have. .managed 'to reach tKc 'islands in the- ship's- boats.' . A " naval cruiser was disspatched to .-search, for the Silberhorn' along the coasts • and ■ islands whence the reports originated, ..but no trace- of the barque . was found. On/her. Jast voyage the Silberhorn' had a crew of' about. 30 -hands,, and-',Captain -Warren 'was .reported to' have . had his' wife and son withhim. .. Vj. - '■";■! : Th e .Probate Court; appointed His brother administrator of';his.'estate;.which amounted to a considerable sum.. '- \
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 525, 4 June 1909, Page 3
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305A SEAFARING ROMANCE. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 525, 4 June 1909, Page 3
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