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Newsgravure and Magazine Section, THE JEFFERSONIAN, Towson, Md., May 3, 1924.
TALE OF TOUGH OLD SHIP
"GARTHWRAY" BRINGS
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currents, a close and anxious watch was kept for the silently stealing proas.
Sometimes the anchor was let go for the night so close to the Islands of Banca and Sumatra, etc., that the monkeys could be heard chattering in the trees, and the tropic birds singing and screaming, while the roar of the tiger was heard as "Stripes" came down to drink at some creek mouth. On such occasions an armed anchor" watch was set, one man with a loaded rifle on the poop, and another similarly armed on the fo'csle head, with orders to fire the instant any boat was seen approaching.
The six-pounders were kept loaded, and the poker ready heated in the galley fire. (The Wynaud's crew at that time fired their guns in the primitive manner, powder on the touch hole, and a red-hot iron. Later cartridges were used and fired by detonators). The shot used was canister and grape, the most effective projectiles for crowded, proas. The intricate navigation, with the arduous seamanship required in those perious waters, and the necessity for warlike precautions, gave the master mariners of the China clippers of those days an anxious time until they cleared the Straits of Sunda and left the pirate nests well astern.
In the China Sea the weather was often shockingly bad, rain in tropical sheets, thunder and lightning something terrible. We'd be wet through all day, and whenever the wind came fair it was out with the stu'n sails; no possible chance was lost, for it was always a race. We boys had to be roused out in our watch below to set top-gallant and royal stu'n sails, and we'd be perched aloft reeving and unreeving gear, and setting and taking in the sails half-a-dozen times a day.
And it was not an easy thing to set a royal stu"n sail; it was a delicate bit of work, and nowadays an accomplishment that is lost altogether. We youngsters had plenty of practice in the art in those days. There was no watch below in the afternoon for us boys at any time when the wind came fair. Then the lead was always kept going in those waters when working through the risky passages. ^ .
Old Captain Reid would not trust the men to heave the lead, but kept his apprentices at it. There was always one of the boys in the missen chains, swinging the handline, heaving it far ahead and singing out the depth of water that the line told; then hauling it in and coiling up ready for another heave. I'd be wet down to the waist for hours at a time heaving that heavy lead.
Old Captain Reid would be lying down in his long chair on the poop. "Now then, youngster," he would say, "what watter ha'e ye gotten?" When there was a longer interval than usual between the apprentice's reports, "Dom it; are ye asleep?" The old man though a lot of his boys, though he made them work like niggers. "Ah!" he would say, "Ye'11 nae gang awa' frae me and say I did'na mak sailors o'
ye."
Sailors yarns like that famous China Sea tale of the "Straits of Bally Bang-jang, where the sailors could not get the yards swung on account of the overhanging trees and the monkeys' tails getting jammed in the brace blocks" were brought again to mind by another recent incident in New York harbor. Captain Ant An-derssen of the 4,000-ton Norwegian tramp whaler Velloy, with .8,700 tons of whale oil aboard out of Georgia Island in the South Atlantic, came nearer losing his ship at her dock recently than ever he did in Antarctic ice-fields. Driven by a sixty-mile gale, a
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When daylight came Chief Jacobsen of the Velloy, served an extra ration of grog to his crew of forty men whose efforts during the night had been directed to preventing their ship from being hoisted high and dry on the concrete platform beside which she lay. Later Captain Andersen was found asleep in his cabin. He remarked as he awoke, rubbing his eyes, that risks a whaler runs are not confined to the Antarctic, and grinned at a suggestion that romance had not vanished from the seven seas since whalers still ply their trade.
Later, Captain Anderssen was prevailed upon to tell some of his experiences while rushing through blue water at the tail of a "forty-barrel bull."
"It's a hard life," said Anders-sen. "As to romance, that's as a man thinks. Whaling isn't what it used to be when we chased the big fellows with hand harpoons and paid out line over the bow of a ship's boat. Nowadays we use steam cruisers 100 to 120 feetj over all, with a swivel harpoon gun in the bow. A hundred-foot blue whale often gives even these craft a hard run for the money. I've been towed thirty to forty miles by a good-sized whale, and put in three hours maneuvering before I manage dto get a loop around his tail.
"You see, this ship's an oil transport—sort of mother to the regular whalers. They do the work and we haul the oil after it's been boiled out in rendering works ashore. We've got six whale-cutters working from Georgia Island. They go out 'each day at dawn and sometimes haul in as many as seven or eight whales in a day. We tow 'em ashore by their tails and haul 'em out with steam tackles along a runway to the boiling sheds. It's a messy job and plenty of risks go with it. There's Olssen now; he came near being eaten by dogfish when he went overside trying to get a line around the last whale taken this season.
Not only has the romance been taken out o' whaling, but speculative interest as well. Them old Bedford hpokers used to carry ¦crews that shared in the catch. Well, all our oil is owner's oil. We work for wages, same as the rest of the proletariat. Yes, sir; it's a job nowadays, and that's about all."
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