MIRAGES AT SEA

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 43, 20 February 1930, Page 15

MIRAGES AT SEA

'Ji REMARKABLE SIGHT

The captain of. .a ■ German. Mv arrived .in New York Bay in the early fays o£ thc-Avar was treated to tbc,singular spectacle of the entire city projected in duplicate into tho air and standing on its own head. '■■•Recalling-this incident m an editorial on mirages at sea, the New Y O i£"Sun"> remarks that: the skipper "apparent had this marvellous sight to Tiimßpli"' As wo learn further: . "The second officer of tho American steamship/Captain A. F.;Lucas, recently Sported to tho "Hydrographxo Bulletin" an Westing condition of mirage' oft the coast of Oregon. American mariners■frequently have reported mirages of .staking Vividness on the Alaskan coast,-but seldom Io far south as Washington or Oregon Tho officer's attention was tost attracted to the coa s t when north of the Hecate Head lighthouse by the 'spilling of water on tho same level as the lighthouse down to the line of the breakers.' Then arose out of the water off the! vessel's bow a black rectangular object, its top.and sides washed ■by great breakers. Ihjs object took on the appearance, of : a vessel which the officer afterwards.was able to identity; can Pacific Ocean passenger filuij. J-^e snioke-strick, which appeared first, was very small. Tlw ship .itself ■appeavcd'.invprted, Us deck flush with' the sea, and,its bow and stern square built. Its forecastle head and bridge rose high above the deck, and, like the remainder of. tlio vessel, were 'distorted and out of all proportion. .The strange craft finally, dropped out ,ot -Bight as mysteriously as Had the elbuds of spray and the inverted lino of breakers.'^