HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1962-06-21, Page 3Four Days ,In A Ship
Turned Upside Down!
When Capt. James T. Morse of
Bath launched a 100 -ton schoo-
ner into the Kennebec baelt' in
1805, and named her "Enigma"
there was a good deal of head
shaking among the ancient mari-
ners
arefiners of the city of ships,
For sailors, at least old-time
sailors, set considerable store by
a ship's name, There was a cer-
tain superstition attached to it
A good name was a good omen.
"'Give a bo't name like that,"
the ancients averred, "carn't
wonder at anything she does,"
Maybe the Enigma felt that
way about it herself: She was
es flat-bottomed as a skiff, and
had a wide centerboard to be
let down when the course was
against the wind, This was be-
cause a shallow draft was re-
quired for the purpose for which
she was intended, that is, oper-
ating between New Orleans and
Mobile, freighting local produce
through the shallow riversand
inlets of the Gulf of Mexico;
Captain Morse was a man to
be reckoned with. He wore a
formidable beard and had a for-
midable glint in his eyes, and
took no nonsense from anybody.
Hiring only four men for his
crew, he loaded the Enigma in
a fashion at which there was
more head -shaking among the
experts, Aroostook potatoes be-
low and a high deckload of
Maine lumber, and took oft' for
Charleston, S.C,
They got there after 11 days,
old Father Neptune being sur-
prisingly tolerant of this af-
front to his powers. Here most
Of the potatoes were discharged,
leaving an empty space in the
afterhold, which, as it turned.
out, was a lucky thing for the
little company of the flat-bot-
tomed schooner Enigma,
She cleared for the Gulf and
Mabile and before she got very
far down the Florida littoral the
weather turned "heavy." Cap-
tain Morse close -reefed arid
hove to, and for a while the
schooner behaved well. Many a
Gloucester or Nova Scotia craft
of approximate tonnage would,
of course, deem this only part
of the day's work, but they are
built for it. Nor, so far as the
record goes, is any known to
have been called Enigma, which
is to say, "inexplicable."
Anyway the, behavior of Cap-
tain Morse's vessel soon grew
decidedly enigmatic, especially
as the heavy weather developed
into a typical West Indian hurri-
cane. But she put up a brave
struggle and seemed in a fair
way to ride it out, when one of
the terrific seas characteristic
of this kind o8 weather came
along - and bottomside up
went the Enigma!
Bottomside up, with the crew
of five penned in the cabin
where they had been getting
a bite to eat. It all happened in
an instant, with no warning at
all. Everything was in darkness
and the water beginning to flood
the small space in which the
quintet was imprisoned.
And now comes an adventure
which is perhaps unique in all
the far-reaching annals of the
sea.
The ceiling of the cabin wag
now the .floor. The height was
barely six feet, half the space
being below deck and halt
above. A bulkhead of soft pine
separated the cabin from the
afterhold, now empty where
the Aroostook potatoes had
been.
Captain Morse, telling the story
afterward, said, "First thing I did
was to plug up the crack in the
companionway door that was
DIXI-Ci:: a ION - From cam-
era's point of view, this stur-
geon appears to be a giant.
Actually,. it 45 a large one.
According to official Soviet•
sources, it supplied 46 cans of
caviul It's being hoisted above
a dock in Caspian Sea.
letting water in fast enough to
fill up, the cabin in no time.
Then, „sloshing around in it, I'
stepped on an old hatchet that
had got washed down somehow.
"That gave me an idea and I
thought I saw a way out, We
might cut through the bulkhead
into the afterhold. We'd have a
bigger space then, What we'd
do after that I couldn't figure at
the moment, but there might be
a chance."
They got to work, taking it in
turns. The hatchet was old and
dull but these were determined
men, Yankee sailors used to hard
knocks, or were in those days,
to tough corners and apparently
inextricable dilemmas. Vigorous
work by vigorous men at last
made a hole two feet by half as
much, Working by feeling along
in pitch darkness they completed
the hole to a size they could
force themselves through, For-
tunately, they were lean, hard'
Yankees, with no encumbering
rotundity, writes Marc T. Greene
in the Oluistian Science Monitor.
"No sooner had we got into
the afterhold," Captain Morse
continues, "than there came a
terrific crash. We thought the
schooner was going back on her
beam -ends and then we would
have been in for it. But what
had happened was the going over
together of both masts, deckload
and galley. However, she hung
the way she was and we lay
there, penned up about as bad as
before, until daylight. The gal-
ley's going overboard had left a
small hole which gave us a bit
of light, and the notion came to
me of cutting through the inside
'skin' of the schooner, the same
as we had done through the
bulkhead. Strange enough, I'd
kept hold of the hatchet all the
time."
Again, working in turns, the
men made a hole in the two-inch
inner planking. Carrying on
with incredible determination,
they at last almost pierced the
outer "skin." Now theyhad to
be careful because a hole- entire-
ly through would at once let out
the compressed air that so far
had sustained them. They work-
ed ,round the. hole until the
woad was so thin they could al-
most see through it, Then they
rested untilanother dawn. Three
days they had been penned up.
At last, finding a heavy piece
MINOSO HURT - St. Louis Cardinal Minnie 'Minoso was
Carried off the field in o semi conscious condition. He suf-
fered a skull fructure when he crashed into the wall trying
to stop a long hit,
of o:;.nt Lae b•aw they
drove it .thrcugh the docit and
were able to crawl out before r
the air was exhausted. They then the of '
were on the bottom of the hull, ':,,6 H -LI
a precarious position indeed if
the weather, which had moder-
ated, should turn heavy again.
"It was the fifth day," Captain
Morse said, "and we were hun-
gry, thirsty and tired." They
managed to catch a small shark
by the tail and ate it raw, Yet
two days more were spent on the
flat -bottom - and fortunate it
was that the Enigma was shaped
that way -ere they were discov-
ered and taken all by the Eng-
lish brig 'Peerless." hound from
Philadelphia h Cubs.
Matchless Thrill
Of Sailplctning
Holding my Sky , , . I swung
smoothly round into the wind
and hung almost stationary in
space climbing silkily upwards.
Overhead was a flat and rather
dirty sheet of cloudy stretching
as far as I gould_see in all direc-
tions, There was nothing about
it to make any glider pilot or
meteorologist expect lift; never-
theless I found myself rising
with gently increasing speed to-
wards it, until in a short time it
quietly tcok me in, The lift in-
creased further and quite sud-
denly I burst forth into a,scene
that might have been on another
planet.
1 was flying north along the
eastern slope of a gigantic, an
endless, valley of dazzling cloud.
The sun, which we had not seen.
for over a week, was blazing
down from a sky of cloudless
dark blue, striking from the
rounded walls and floor of the
cloud valley a white and insup-
portable glare. I fumbled hastily
for my dark glasses and managed
to find them and put them on.
The scene had the stark • and
splendid geometrical simplicity
of a certain kind of nightmare.
The cloud valley ran straight as
a ruler ahead of me as far as
the eye could reach. I was flying
along in almost utter silence,
with my right wing nearly
touching the eastern slope, and
about a third of the way up to-
wards its crest, climbing steadily.
On my left the slope fell away
to the valley floor, which then
curved smoothly up again to the
parallel western Side of cloud -
hill.;..
We did a 90° -,turn to the left,
the milky cloud- rushed at us,
the valley behind hesitated and
faded from view. After a few
moments, the rate of climb indi-
cator swung from rise to fall,
the cloud lightened and we burst
out into a valley, the exact mir-
ror of the one we had just left.
As we neared the eastern side
again, the indicator reversed to
"climb," and I turned to the right
and was again traversing up the
snowy side of the bulge. , . This
extraordinary sequence repeated
itself five times, each crest being,
as expected, slightly lower than
the one before. The, sixth time
I dived into the cloud wall; I did
not come out. As I sank, the
cloud got slowly darker, and the
unmistakable sulphurous smell
of a steel -works a mile below,
andprobably several miles up-
wind, brought back a flash of the
real world I had almost forgot-
ten in the estatic three-quarters
of an hour behind me .
Thus ended a flight which epi-
tomized the fascination and the
unexpectedness of soaring, and
which taught both pilot and me-
teorologist something new about
the air over even our old and
fully exphred country; .a flight
which showed that you do not
have to go as far as Everest, but
can still encounter surprise and
adventure in a sailp.lane.as near
to home as a mile above the
smoky roofs of Sheffield. -From
the introductory essay to "The
Beauty of Gliding," by Philip
Wills.
Cat Trouble
In High Circles
For thesecond month in a
row, the Acting Secretary-Gen-
eral of the United Nations, U
Thant, was plagued with apart-
ment problems, This time, it
seems, the landlord did not take
kindly to the keen claws of
Thalt's cat. Thant subleases a
sumptuously furnished apart-
ment on New York's East Side
from William F. Whaley, Last
month the state rent commission
filed suit for treble damages
after learning that the Secretary-
General was paying $1,200 a
month for the $402.50 rent -con-
trolled a p art m en t. Recently,
Wholey filed an affidavit with
the State Supreme Court listing
$6,447 in damages done to Mrs.
Wholey's eighteen -century furni-
ture. The cat, indicated Wholey
was the culprit. "11e tore the
damask curtains, ripped up the
carpets and upholstery, We had
to throw a lot of stuff out." The
cat's paws have now been mani-
cured, said the landlord, because
"Thant is a very fine gentle-
men," Thant had nothing to say
about either the cat or the eon-
niptions, but a spokesman for
the U,N. official said it was "all
a pack of lies and distortions
blown out of all proportion"
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THE FIGHT GOES ON - Time: 1954. Scene: Oakton, Va.
Event: Dr, Richard Mulvaney administering the first shot of
Salk polio vaccine to Randy Kerr, 6, photo at top. Now almost
15, Randy, bottom photo, is leading Polio Pioneers, a teen-
age organization raising funds to build a laboratory wing at
the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, Here,
Randy pins acampaign button on Crystal Brown, 18,_
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