A TALE OP THE SEA.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 634, 11 October 1909, Page 7

A TALE OP THE SEA.

\ LODOFIER PUTS JNTO .WELLINGTON: ' . .•.EXPERIENCE'IN 'MAGELLAN STEAIT. .Lato. on Saturday, evening a. strange steamer was:signalled.outside'.Wellmgton Heads asking tor a pilot... The Harbour Board' authorities were communicated /. with, and Pilot Dawsoh went--: out 'on thn Admiral and. brought the vessel, into,:port. at : 10 p.m.U.Shp proved, to be Uie.;Steamer'!libdortr,- of. London,. J207 tons, taptain 'I'rancia 'XWn Adnuis, bound from Buenos. Ayrea'Mh. ballast, and, came into port ,to -replenish blinkers/- Her "officers ') reported |,>. D fff>"i trying .'passage, via the' 1 Magellan ~.:.'. .; J :i ; A-,Steamer :l in.!sirange';Trlm.,; 7;:, :; . -vessel- left 'BuenOs :Ayres'on. August 27: ,£i- a J. aUßh ';., Wfl3 then sft. Ciri.'.forward, and Ult.; 5in. , .-.a1t.,.-and there, were.,Bs3 tons, of water, in the. hold,, and. ,730 tons ■' of coal. r*e 0 »;P. m . m * M M. when : two : days out. ■ A still. f, S.W.. gale sprang up, ; and the ship being W.-.-JißjiV: retused - to', stem. .'"Officers amt ; creiv got to work, lifted the boarding oft the after hold, and let 150 tons of water run in, making a'light lond-line of their own; iair. progress was then, made as.far as Sahdv &■' "r?*" the/.Mafe lau htrait It .was toon'discovebd,. however, H-hnt the , of .the'strait-is' fraught with aW B dailJ ih H,«-«i n . 13 V a, "so of ,M oi- 50ft. in tiie tides, the-current runs six or eight knots while the for 3' houts after hlsh.-'water. ■/,To-ntalce matters .more' difficult Hi a the f , offic A r ' of tlio, Lodorw, it-was spring tides, after .the,-: passetlPunta. Arenas,.-. aud as the nights vrere.very,Wnbk,.'great care had to be.exercised not,to overrun,their .distances noya-Bay.v J?or .21 ■ hours the steamer was be°^fatC d l h ™H7 he^ tlle;storra »ed to IWI T ° - nt i eDl ? t • was D "»te to. reach XHiesday Bay, ; on Desolation ■ Land.:' ■ ' ?

V;,v ; ;.!:: A Precarious : Anchpraoe/ O •.,■■■ '■"■. it;i pi-PVcd.• thb'-Wo'.vhatU' not : abated: a •J ? ,;«! ncl w itU:% utmost difficulty lmt oftlv % **& ™ 3 Tho. entrance is It,\l S ; ? ld f'i nnd .' s sheer; mountains- on oiie wde, and jagged; rocks and reefs on the other deoth > le P"*,,* l^: reaches-a grelt ?nfii«m. *n n - h ? th Pwp"*es- .foiiad • in' 25 nf'rt?'^ 1 acc « d ' u g .'o 'lie descriptioh JM*'?^ 8 .-^'-most precarious anchorage nnaßinable, during the ■ three: days that they.-rfere: weather-bound : there, the, enstos * i d; e6in *■*&">**■-• affinal tl ease..the cab es, forbad, theanchor gone adrift nothing .could have saved the ship. On'SenV ; U : ft -rto ( in the glass waVfaoted and the master to' pull up the ifnehor and proceed; : About.this time another ; 80 0 U^ W*s

:V.:;;'.' ; ;; : : Coal Runi Short. '■, ~'.' '.'_>. .•''■The remainder of the journey ;throueh the ing, pitching, and \ labouring 'through' hear*' eas, they.arrived.olf.AVellington He"ds Dur-' lag ; tho: concluding days of ths voyage thev TvT :f «. ed - wi ft /apldly-diminishihg. bunffi \Vhen: they pulled up. in' port only 15 tonsTof I,H I i,Y eM left, »««'-th<«gh thaf is sufficiwlto brighten hearth in winter time; it is not .eufhcient to atisfy,- tho appetite of the Lodorerjfor, even.ono uay,. ■ ..'' . ■ ... . itVTOs, happy -family W'the'.Bhin' wheniPUot Dawson steered them in the Head? on Saturday night and brought them to a safe anchorage:in,smooth .water off Kaiwarra A^ onp:stage,W,.the iy 6yage the-officer™ .heen-vinv.their clothes for seven -'-davs and nl^V- and; though -they ;6 till. have v?v dt, collections of; that-anxious-.time when shelfefing in Tuwday ,Bay,,it Mattered little on Sal unta. ukhtjvheh. they } m( .';atvanchor in a' mill poncf. ■. All ■ wera-'lookihß- forward to a good nights-rest; undisturbed, by the nightniare experlentes which-had; been their, lot en vOvnee, .Only 15-:tbne 6f coal in the hold anU a-ffi ™Zj™tXywmnj jm not- a comfortable ■position, •■but,: as -she- lies ■ now,, the steamer is surrounded ;b y| coal hulks. .Desolation Laud in 'the; ■Magellan"; Sttait, is (tho ilodorer-s officers, say)''aptly named, and so is "God's Own Country, ,, .,- -..-■ .. '■ , . -.. .•■ " . Capt..Adams ihinltsthnt the right and-pro-per, way .for. ,a light -tramp to como from America, to .-this .part of the world is via tho Upe of Good Hope, as. the winds, seas and currents; are, as favbuvnblo: by. that routo ns thoy ftro' adverse via Magellan Strait. The officers -associated , -will. Capt.' Adams ftroi Ohef, Mr. Reo., Gj-ilHHts; J. D {'«!'• -Chief engineer, Jtr.: J.. Winhaston' Mills;-second,"Mr. Dove; third, Mr, Wood,