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A 1 1 Flggvr OF ALL 8ii50l-‘lui YhAH.(Dll. VENEU IN V UI
5 l‘lll’5i T
E CEN T Adventures of
the Nollr-malhal 'Bring to
Mind Tragedies of the Sea irl
Wtlfth Brave Craft Fared Forth
Laden with Human Freight and
Thea Vanished from the Z Face
. of the Tracleless Deep l »- -~
' » BY PAUL EVE STEVENSON, ""“"
'ict-pyrlrln, noe, by als new nn nel-.la os. 'sn nllrlm‘nsl¢ma.)
. F all the mysteries that hover about men’s
doings perhaps, none is more intensely felt
than that ot the 'missing ship. She leaves port
some sunny morning, well found and handled,
and is seen no lnore.- She perlshes in the
dark and leaves-F V , ` _
No black plume an a token '
of her passing. She ,dies an unknown death; she ls
. hurled without funeral' elrpenses, 'and she has the
` grandest scpulchre in theworld, untatholnahle and ln-
con-uptihle. But the manner ot-her eniills 'the secret
of the sea. . _. ,. . '
“Posted at Lloyds as mlzslng." ~Prohahly no other
phrase has carried withit the weight ot _woe conveyed
in these few words, for every hopeihas, heenabiin-
4 . A _
doned then. The great mariah .underwriting house
oi' Lloyds has paid the ins rancg on the_.sh_lp and she
has been rubhel1"oif thcirlildok forever. Some idea
of the meaning atxthe phrasescammwlth the recent
adventurcslof the Nourmphal,=»the yacht 'of Colonel-
John J. Astor, but happily aft`e'l-"ri long suspense tho
word was not set down, and the Nournlahal -escaped
, the fnte` ofthose recorded mlsslngi" ‘ _
~Hundreds of persons illled with ambitions, great. and
small, and strong in tlievigor and Eosslbilltles of,lll'e.
go away ill the‘vessel"and shout t elr words of fare-
well and endcarlnent to the crowds ashore. The
wehthsr is'ilh`e and the world.hu'put on its bestattlre.
How handsome she looks, the big ship, as she backs
out into tbé stream, turning slowly with a conscious<
‘ ness' of splendid power within her, asshe heads for
the vast solltudos that lie before her!
__ No thought of disaster enters _the mind as she., dé-
parts, though the tenderhearted shed ll, few tears as
the great hull glides smoothly off., It is a holiday
crowd, just entering upon the'nrst step ot its Euro-
pean excursion. and the air-'lsdlled  liigghter and
aurtsl-mg'-llrllllngslcnlsrs, alla- vg;io»s;_oalle~~s¢r§-as me
ever laclllllg mls ovfwswr- iilavillllliilllirelr-1 a. llmll
"` ‘ o ‘ii`o`wiiiitf.` Swiftly she gathers way as she goes,
tr mt
and new she is across the harand feels the ill-st breath-
l lnglllttz of the sea-the rise and fall of the mighty
breast on which she rests. Then she fades into a
glimmer on the sea line before she blends with the
mists of the horizon.
A fortni ht passss..withoui: news of her. Another
week and -irleads grow anxious. They gather in the
aaent's odlce for news. There is a portentous absence
. of lt. Mon think, but do not talk. Rumors, perhaps.
give cncoiiregalnellt as some clew is followed, lifting
bt-,llevers'up on the Himalaya of hope, only to cast
them into the chains of despair next day, when the
phantom. dissolves and leaves them stranded with
their broken trust. .
Then begins the gambling on the ship, and we hear
that ilfty psr cent reinsurance is offered. Swiftly the
sum increases till ninety-nve per cent is reached.
There is a longpallse. to give thc ship ber lust lighting
chance, wllllo crowds illl the steamshlp omces. Then
e llxe tulle lllld the dreaded bulletin is read, “The
til
Queen of the Seas has been _posted at Lloyds as
id
missing."
What has happened to her? Ice, tire, -collision,
stornl? Almost ullytllillg is possible, but of one thing
tllcrll can be no douht-the Sea has shouted his com-~
lllllnd. and uoiie may disobey. Far away lu the dull,i
waste spaces. under it wintry sky, the North Atllllltlc
has called with ringing voice and claimed another
bride. That is all, for no one comes ashore and we
will never know how long she struggled in the clasp»
.ing arms. For the gray, ancient Sea lvles dumb and
brlnls with mystery' alld brooding thoughts as he
draws the dark co\vl of night across his face, and even
the rising sun can wlrlug no secret from him...
` And so we ponder on the fate of this great vessel,
forever hidden from us, smitten by the soa. Sho went
away; wc watched her vanish on the distant skyline;
we wllltad.llnd we wept. But the sea is iillell with
riddles, and one more or less w:lll be of little moment
l to lllnl. for he alone can solve them. Perhaps 'twas
ill-c luld ice-arch cneluies till lsurnesssd by me gm...
ibut ,hid upon ber; perhaps some lonely derelict op-
posed llcr in the olgllt, and both went. locked, to death.
l»‘ol- ourselves, we only know tlrat the august ship is
gone .with all her people. - »
\ O O C U I U O
since ocean steam shipping began few vessels in the
North Atlantic trado created in the human breast more
lingering hope than thc famous old President ere she
wlls written oil’ the banks at Lloyds. She was a gen-
crnl favorite with the travelling public. many famous
‘ lncn llnd women electing to travel in her rather than
lil lluy other ship between Sandy Hook and thc Ghan-
llel., Tyrone Power, the dlstlngulshled actor, always
chose her as the vehicle of his peregrlnlltions. und lilo
only sentence or word or claw ot any sort that camo
from the fated President was written by his hand.
For Tyrone Power was among her passengers when
she left New York for Liverpool in March, 1841. and
townrdillo end of May, or two months later, when all
hope had 'been surrendered, ll bottlc was plchcd up at
sen con_taluin§}t a fragment of paper on which was re-
corded 'tllg p mple fact tllnt the President was sink-
ing, the Q [nature nt the bottom being that of the cele-
` Drilled player Tyrone Power.
When disaster overtaken vessels ln the Atlantic lt’ is
generally the ruse that they are westward bound at
the time because lllc westerly gales are the wildest
limi the most llltiilfult to weather out. But the Presl-
doilt fnded`dM of hu nllla sight bound to the eastward.
There wertdib persons on bolmi llll told when she
passed out by. Sandy Hoolg that afternoon, and she
was d_u_e_ lil,,filiv,erpool in twelve or fourteen days. oc-
cllrdlngzul g pe wwntller. And a pond dl-al still "lis-
lifhtlslon ,tm tyeniller" in the western ocean. in spito
o 40.000! l displacement and 723000 horse power,
and twenty knots often dwin e to a when the surly
old fellow gets his hack up, ., .
A :ol-tlpgill pllllllea wmlont any :mlm imlnllls
President. No one wondered. ihough. for it had been
1 tel-rlac winter llgtllo Nntth matic .and canada
iild boenlheld up y the elements almost tor months.
gm ‘Wlaq‘sppl-cached. toolfusileusnilllugot ec
` QW NW\`f0¢| Ui *N Im 0 routes. and lt. was
iwzln illat-¢lle1.1'-ellldcntull nncgludrlueulllr of la
Li ills allyll passed. though. .wil _ at -no-wr anagrams
IM tems ill ilu ll national; and brioiy ca ed at-
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I'IAsT,PA5i5l‘lD I T()sTI'IEl GHTL
overdue, and by the. end of tile mouth sllllilllr state-
ments wcre issued about another crack steulnsllip, the
Britannia, which had then-been at sea all unusually
long time--in fact, tor- a lougcrperlod than any other
royal mall steamer ever had been before, and solllo
comfort was aitorded by the thought that both vessels
.had been detained by the same, heavy weather and
that they were fighting it outiin conipany. And it is
indeed a comforting thou ht that a consort is standing
by a disabled sister, lending what assistance slle can
amid the whistling seas and snowy glilcs _
On April 2 the 0l'pheus,'wllich had left America two
days later than the President, arrived after ll stormy
passage and her.log showed that on Mzlrch 12 she
had encountered a glllo of unusual fc'ro<.~lty cron for
the _season and locality. lTlils gale oi' \vllld killlllcrl
hope ln the breasts of lnany, and forsolne lime little
doubt was entertained that tue Preslllcllt»-vniillut
old ship-was making a llcrolc iight of it olll: ttlrro
under a shrieking sky and was steering for llle
'Ohnnnel with disabled engines. Then the lirllllnllln
came ramping home, with happy tacos wlllilll-.z on the
wharf to welcome her, for ;\ppl'cllcllsl_on had lllolllltcll
high concerning her, llnd~ they cheered hcr, delivered
from the plunging sea. _
_ Hind then still other ships came in that had de-
parted long after the President, lllld'facell pnlcd and
men looked at each otllelwvitllout speaking. '_l‘llc sub-
ject was avoided or wusldiscusscll ill lnonotolll-s ull-
der the brcnth on Qle qullys and the exchanges. An
idle story wont the rounds that tile Pl-osirlclll had been
seen steering for Faylll -ulldcr clluvlls, logging only
three knots-~n myth thllt lllcd fl-borning. ’i‘llo, next,
day the newspapers contained full liste of tile pnssen-_
gcrs' names on board, and those were read like the ln-
scriptlons on a toulbstouc. . ~. , ., -
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,roll llclllll illllt till* old l‘l'l\sllillllt is sllfc llfivr ull? in
lil-l-lllllll:l. _\'llll illluw, .»\lll»ill<~l° llllstnkoj No, not this
llllln." .\llll ii wlla nc\'cl~lll llllys llcforc the people
ll-:ll'lll'll illzlt lllnl-c lllllrc illoy hlld been cheated with
lilo lll:\lll l* ol' lllc dl-\'||. » '
.\s illil~ :ill lhc lllllllllc of iillly tllore were still those
to llc fllllllll wllo llclicvcd ill lilo l‘rosildenl's sllfetyfaiid
:l lolll' frolll illb lugllllok of ll Portuguese volsel wig
llllllllrlll-ll, .-lllllllt~,- lllllt silt- llnd passed a large dis-
nllicll vt-s-~=l-l. 'l‘lll-ll l.-lllllc till- nlllll `unh'oullcelnellt"*ot
tllll llllillc lllvssawc frlllll 'i‘yrolleP0wel‘. which ill ltheif
pil.-slilly lully llllrc been n lla-try jest__a d after that
cllllln llllllllzlg. No further tllllh from any N0;-fb At.
illlllil-. \\~lll\~ll llllll vlupped lts~`¥igge|;‘| ` ` w' uD0n,¢he
>\ll~:ullslll|> llllll >:\\'llll\»\vcd hcl* fit njlnég gul'p_
'rllll-ll-l-ll, _vi-lll~.~ llllt-r llllrcll. ‘ llflblil-
.<|l~:llll.~llllp. _lcl’t the vierscy i‘or_yi"allj§L»|:;fi|:‘v',,n 
1. lile your Ilcillg lS5»t , She nlsdlwag gil"-3,1; v},5,¢1
:lllll url-l'_r berill ivll  ,gflhene-were on hum-q 111'
lil-.~lt villas pnsscuigeri, ' hi.; 9  ,md 70 m the
l-rl-lv. fllllllllg ups grllllliloulh égggrpm-,,¢ B N. “,,,,,_
il qlllllllllllle i e hutllller of l who lr); i\’ew 'York
ill llw I‘r¢\slde t.- Sllq' wg; . *l || v` ,
bl" lim* 1-* »l.»§¢\\i1\Keth|§i§ mvglakailgg luilisilelk
l;l‘ll_v lllld pon qrlpg qui gi, he hm'-‘|,_ou doe, not
l.».ll4illl-l', for  _ ‘ 4f'lj,¢""'_»,`; -_:
Ord Bild ..`lYB
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But she was a fine, Clyde-built vessel. tllc City of
Gillsgow,»anll 'her commander, .ianlc.< l\lorl'l-oll, \v:ls
an experienced and able scalnlln, well vl\lx<cll ill lilo
telnperamental vagaries of the Atlantic; :lllll _vllll lllll ll
to try to overcome them as bcst. you llllly ily filllliiillr-
izlng yourself with his had llulnurs: At any rlllc, it
WHS gcncrlllly hhllllgllt that no llcttor slllplllllstcr
ever conll d ills vessel :across iilc \\'leslcl°ll .lt-call in
those dllyAthall (lnptlllll l\iol~l~lsl»n, llllll lllltllllllllollly
every precaution as to thc proximity ot loc and dcl'c~
licts was taken by this prudent mall, though the oldest
of all sailor phrases tells us that “any old thing can
happen at any time at sell.”
Bo no anxiety was shown ovcr thc City oi' Glllrgow'
when ll few days more tll:lll thc usual limit llllll pllsscli
by and she was not reported. Some _vo:ll'.s, tllolllzll. tim
lcc breaks up very early ill Bntlln Bay and thc giant
in-rgs ilollt down thc current and stop many a tight
ship ill their path. Many
An errant princess of thc North,
A virgin, snowy while,
Sails ndown thc summer scrls
To realms of burning light.
Ilut snllorlnen do llot regard these gleaming wan-
dcrcrs as rosliy as poets do, and when thc City of Man-
chester rcncllcd Liverpool, having left l’lllllldclphll\
about the snlllc time that thc City of Glasgow lcft thc
llltiel' port, and reported that. thc ice fluids oft New-
follndlllnd were breaking up. lllen shook their llcllds
nlld ulade no comnlcnt. That the creat-up of lilo llcllls
was a good tiling in itsclf was true, but it was cqllallg
ijrlle .tllnt"it meant tho strcwlng of’ the occnn wil
hcllvu lf... which vessels. however D0wel-ful, ll\ H1050
dll_vs lnllzhi mol-t in nlorm, l-wife.
All the arriving transatlantic steamer-s testided tllli
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tllcre was lllorc il-c ill lill~ _\li:llliil- lllllll lhcy llllll cror
known. ilolll r-<»llll`ll|'L illllf-vii! 'l‘llu ('ll[ll:lill of lhu
\Vl‘.<llllol'ol:lllll, \\'llil-ll l;lll |>l'<-<'l\llu\l ill0 Gllisgllw by
only ll fl-\v <l:l_\'.~', lllvllllolll-ll llllll he lily ilnllcddcd ill
tllo lim-S for ii\'o <l:l_\'~' :lull lll~.~!lis_ lllld icstlilcd lllllt
this l-xll';l<ll'<llll:ll'y ll-ll lll.-iss l-xlllllilrll ill one dll'e¢.;il0ll
for £150 lllill~.~‘, nllllllsl l-lllllpzlvl and sown with l»l.~l'gs 01
ellol-llloll.< slzc rising fl-.»ln Luo to three hundred feel
lllluvc lilo Sell, ,
\\`llcllll‘l‘ lllc (`ii_\' ill' il|;l~';_'ll\\' lllud ily the frigid
llllllll ol' lllll- ol’ till-.~»\ ovl-:lll lwllllllll-l'.~‘ llc:-l lll iliysirry
:ls llllsty :ls lllllsu t-llill_\‘ .~l\:l~l illrolllill wlllcll Slie Bough!
to flll'<~l-, ll<-l‘ \\':l_\'. \\`:ls -lll~ lll|l|»<-ll l»l\i\vcl'll two bcrgs
illilt l'l':ll'l\l>ll ill-l' lllll- :l llllll' lllll sllu lllllldly charge
slllllll ivy fill-il‘<\.~'< ill tllll lllli'l<‘.' Ami dill hcl' people die
oi' slow .~'llll'\*:lLlllll l‘:lll1|ll-ll llll [llc \\‘lm1y [gg piping
\\'illl till: fog llallllls for :l lllll|llal~t'.'
ill tllc l-:ll'l_v }l:ll't of till- Inst Ilfilcs tilt-rc \'.'us no
lllllrc pllpllllll' .~‘ll-:llll~'lll1» lllll- lllll ol' .\'1:\v York to Liv-
cl'p-lol t|l:lll till- (R-ilills-. 'l`ills \'<-ssl-is oi' this great
cl|lll|l:lll_\' \\-~l‘l< llll- .~'ll---~l~~'.<l`lll l'l\'lll.~' for ll lllllg whllu
of ilu- i’llll:ll'<l .~‘lll|l~‘, ;lllll_ il_\'ill;.; illl- .\llll:l'll~n:l ling and
lllllllll=lillill~,: ll llltril sl:lllll:ll‘ll ni' 1-illl'll~lll'_\ ill cvcry
lil-l=lil_ till-_v olllililll-ll :lllll lwld lilo clwrulll of ‘ille
.\lll<-l'i<-llll p:l<.<<-llul~l' lralllv. illlo lll` lllc host ships of
lilo illlc, lilo l‘:l<-iiil'_ \\':l.< \»:ll‘iiclll:\l'l_\' i'll\‘<>rl\ll, and
wllcll sill- ll-i`| i.l\l~l‘|llllll lll\\':ll'll till- closl- lui' .lll!llilll‘y.
l.\;`ll‘»_ sill! l':ll'l‘i<~ll lil-l' \l.\lllll llllllpll-llll~l|l nl' llrsi Class
|l:l,'>',~=l~llgl-l'.~', |lll-l'l- lloilll; llll illlll lull |»,|-olls ull board.
Sill* \\':l,~‘ .\i;:|ll\~|) ill .\`i_ iii-<»l'L'\"~' i`ll:lll|ll\l fl fvw hours
lllil-l' :lllll illvll llllllwll la-lll\\' illc l\ol'iv,lll| for ;_'l>od-I-illr
oillcr sllurlilvl- ml lin- ll-|ll|»l-~l|\l~ll|.~' llilzll' ol' ills N965
Aillllliil: lllllillo illl~ oilll~l~ lll~l~l>|lll-,~' .lf ilu- llevp wholf
i':lll' llllllllw lllllllo lilllllllr l-|~l llllll- for WQQUN 
1‘zll-lill: wus- lll-rl-l' l'l-pol'il-ll, llllll tiwro was llo lll_éiati0l|
of llvl' :ls :l pllllniolll sllip, lil~':lllil-ll. ilcllrlng UKJQB 
pl\.<.~'illll- |\ol'l.~1. ill'l‘ \\'l~ll l:|l<l\vll llgurth ihllt d'
llccll fllllllllls on lilo \\'iili _-\i|:llltlr‘. _‘|lll~1tfadeii_ l§¢&_n°
|ll~l‘.~'|\l‘l'll\'u of illlllv \\'iillllllt llll- bills! Of V 
ull lllisl'llll~l'. Sllllll‘\\'ll<-l‘l\ Ill illl- \\'cltl>.l'1l U59”
illillg llnllllclll-ll, llllll \\ ill-ll iilc .storlil Will Uilmf 
horl.: llnll ‘.i'a|llpcli by il vllcfllli sea l:ll¢|Ji1".|"} .
im: illl-so io :llc sun. - .‘
Tho (lily of Bllsillll in lSTO \\'ilS Hililifd “7 nm N" M
l..| .1 ‘ (1 l f|l|||ln|l~\<i l'i‘|.!iNii‘l' IK ll" tilt* \V0\‘|d,
m _~~ ill-Z s l||».~l.A ill. _  ` ‘Wd m answer .,[{e"»l
for will-ll rl st.ll\‘l_\ hlllll iid* ‘WI t mod( NN, mlm]
ll llllllllroll ll'll|,:l-lllcs ill one collll1`u9‘0“_ml uw ,my 0*
~ ~' iclllnllillllcc l'0llllI'\lL"
A mmm," ( I our ill cicnr rcllcf till- llllqlll-llullnble
ii‘¢(l’lsll[.0i|il:l(l'lllllmllvll lll mtl: \\‘|1f‘f"’ -"0" 'Hd “"' ""‘“'“' Bm
“___w'n “,|d0“. ||\~|||;_' ill ill-ll--lit. :\ll<l, with ll t\ll‘\0\\\
fn‘"‘,-V Um( (lm lillslllll |l:\|l->|‘~4 lrllllld ilrill Uilillillii _(ilu
m,,“.§ of hm- only _ql,||'g rplllrn, .silo e:\llu¥ti'i\\éi\ f0l‘ hili
llllll rl-llll ll llllllwlltly- For f“f\.\` .\'°1\fH H\l.ii.\i!\i‘i W,"
nlwnys illlrl at illc illlllc :lull Ill-l' oxplnllailon iiltlityl
follo\voll»-"I ll:l\'l‘ not llcnrd froui .lim yig but 1 
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