SEA ROMANCE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9465, 7 June 1909, Page 7

SEA ROMANCE.

Something akin to aRo * )1 “? 0 *J Ornsoe romance seems to lie behind the fallowing advertisement, pablished in the .Liverpool Daily Post, about the middle of April:“Wanted, a respectable sailor wno has sailed with Captain John Benjamin Warren, late of the four-mas-ted barque Silberhorn. who » mpposed|to bQ lost, to go to Valparaiso to identify the above-named man. For particulars apply to John Grav, Spring House. 17, Slyne road, Sker too. Lancaster.’V . .. The precise motive of the adveris not. of course, apparent, but“ me is forthcoming which invests it with a terest, says the; _ „q The Liverpool ship Sl / b0 1 r^ 7 4 r IOQgl OQg iron masted barqne of 1774 to “® register, belonging to Messrs Q. De Wolfe & Go.. of Tower buildings sailed from Newcastle, Soath Wales for lonique with ,a cargo or Toalln June! 1907 She was reported subsequently on 56th July. 1907, m An q MO Vf , since when she has imr been heard of. She was commanded t.y John BM.lan.rn Warren who resided in North Lancashire Tod bad a crew of twenty-three seamen and four apprentices. From time to time rumours have { come to hand as to the vessel having Seeenatsea At one was supposed to be on fire off the Straits of Magellan. .At another she had been sighted off the island of Juan Fernandezr— the home of xtobinson Crusoe. Intense interest was kindled in her disappearance. His Majesty’s Government dispatched a cruiser to search for the Silberhorn along the coasts and islands whence the reports originated, but no trace of the barque was found. At toe end of twelve months compensation was paid to the surviving relatives of the crew under the Merchant Shipping Act, the mate’s widow receiving as much as £3OO. By the authority of the Prohate Court Captain Warren’s brother was appointed administrator of Captain John Warren’s estate, which amounted to a considerable sum. It is now reported, whether correctly or not it is impossible to conjecture, that Oaptiain Warren, of the Silberhorn, is not dead. Relatives ihave, it is stated, received information which has led them to publicly invite sailors who had been with Captain Warren. to go ont to Valparaiso, and there identify him. The theory is that Captain Warren was oast away at sea, took to some interior locality, in the wilds of Bolivia, __ lived there a nomadic or mining life, that he amassed a considerable fortune, and ultimately made his way to Valparaiso.