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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER

Navigators Who Made News

Remarkable Voyages In Small Craft

UNSUNG TALES OF SOME HEROIC SEA ADVENTURERS

(By Lawrence G. Green)

واحد

Men still set themselves hard ment under the heel to throw light| tasks at sea. On the wide ocean on the life of the doomed old lady

of the sea. between Australia and South

Fate Escaped

Africa the lookoutman in the

4

9, 1935

Donald Cook has the leading role in Columbia's “Fury In The Jungle, which is shortly com- ing to the Queen's Theatre.

The Purveyor escaped the fate steamer Katos sighted a patch of planned for her. On the way to canvas and an open boat. Now the whaling station at Saldanha south-east blow or a freezing gale that is usually the prelude to res-Bay. sixty miles north of Cape from the north-west

A Long Voyage through swollen lips. But the two the rock-bound roast. Thus died saw a black-painted fishing boat cue and a tale of disaster croaked Town, she broke away from the

towing steamer and drifted on to In Table Bay Docks recently I Swedes in this open boat asked the Purveyor, with all her memo- less than thirty feet in length, nothing more than that a postcard ries of pig-tailed sailors, wide which had just struggled south all should be sent to Sweden reporting oceans, and the thunder of muzzle the way from Port Nolloth. 350 their safety.

loading guns.

miles, to-join the Cape snoeking They were sailing round the

Many young adventurous sisters fleet. Her men had their straw world for pleasure; or, perhaps for have rubbed their planking against mattresses and bedding in the sun the sake of the achievement the ancient oak of the Purveyor, that day. I suppose there There can be little happiness in One of them was the. Forget-me-hardly a dry spot inside or out ocean cruising under burning suns Not, a little Dover smack, which during the long sea passage. and the lash of cold spray.

made a remarkable passage to Some of the South African fisk- voyagers like Slocum, Gerbault South Africa in 1908. She was ing ports, like Hondeklip Bay and. &and Pidgeon. with their strongmanned by three brothers named Knysna, have narrow entrances decked craft, enjoyed luxury in Pearson, a friend and a Creole, made more dangerous by bars. comparison with the hardships of One of the brothers was a certifi The fishermen go out in fine the open boat.

cated master; the rest of the ship's weather, the ses rises, and they The open boat! There you have company had no previous sea ex-are forced to remain in the open a man's struggle against the moods perience. It must have been of the sea reduced, almost, to its

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a until it is safe to retuneto har-| bour. Almost every year the sea claims some of these men Buti for every last crew there are a boats rank one step higher in the

The passage to the Cape lasted hundred escapes and feats of sea- scale of ordeal. And how many

202 days and the only "port of call" manship which go unchronicled. adventures of this kind have gone

Those who have told the stories unrecorded-voyages as worthy of was the remote island of Tristan a book of their own as the publish da Cunha. When the peak of of their adventures off the old ed masterpieces of Slocum and Tristan lifted over the horizon "Cape of Storms" give us strong Gerbault

most of the sails needed repair and impressions of the misery of it all the Forget-me-Nots provision I remember the words of Captain Romance Of Small Boat

lockers were almost empty. The Axel Ingwersen when he brought islanders, usually in need of stores the 27 ton ketch Shanghai into Many remarkable feats of sea-themselves, helped to fit out the Table Bay Docks on his way from manship in South African waters smack. After cruising among the China to Denmark. If I ever go live only in the yarns of the meat islets of the Tristan group in to sea again in a small boat I shali who survived-men handier with search of guano, Captain Pearson avoid the Cape." he declared. “It marlinspikes than pens. Some have

set a course for Table Bay, across was the worst part of the voyage- Singapore, Pepang Rangoon and been told in a paragraph of print, 1,500 miles of empty ocean, ay-y worst night at sea"

a few lines in a log-book, a shorting on Christmas Day. The Forget-

Narrow Escape report handed to a harbour master-me-Not remained in the South Skipper Harry Pidgeon, the lone Filed, forgotten. lost. In those African coasting and fishing trade band of the little yawl Islander, corners of Table Bay Docks where for many years a tough ship that was lucky in his weather when he small craft rub topsides I have rode out great gales in safety. rounded the Cape of Good Hope. listened to such adventures. Some

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of the little ships, and their mas-frott England which made the long traction came after he left Table DODWELL & they suggested dicker across the

film.

ters have gone; the scenes which run to South Africa, successfully Bay, bound for St. Helena Worn- was the Chance. In 1921 she out after thirty hours on watch, he screen of memory like a cinema covered 8.050 miles in 90 days, call-trimmed his sails, set a course to Oldest of all these small ketches ing nowhere: the mail steamers clear the land, and dropped into on the direct route of 6,000 miles, his bank exhausted. The roaring and cutters was the Purveyor. I take only seventeen days. But fer of heavy surf awoke him. He leapt deed, you would not expect to find

on board the hard through the hatchway to find the such a vessel, in the post-war era, driven Chance there were no liner Islander pounding on a sandy outside an honoured place in a

comforts. Heavy weather in the beach.

seven men

naval dockyard. Her whole ap Bay of Biscay, a typhoon off the The wind had changed in his

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THE BEAR'S FACE

(Continued from Page 10.)

pearance supported the fact-die coast of Brazil, broken spars, in-night and driven him miraculously

lof a voice. It was Steevens, my covered by a naval officer with a taste for historical research that tense heat in the tropics all these past hidden rocks and reefs on to clawin' quietly within about a packer, lookin' down at me.

hardships, and more, went down in the shore. But the Islander, built foot o my ear. That was all the **Hello, what in deuce are ye she was built soon after 1800. the log of the little Chance by Pidgeon himself, was a sound farthest it could reach, however, doin" down there, Job? he de-

Here, beyond doubt, was one of Three weeks before they reached job; she stood the strain without so I tried jest to keep my mind manded. the tiny oak walls" of Old Eng Cape Town there was only one cracking a plank or opening a off it. In a minute or two it dis-] “Waitin' fer you to git a rope land still in service in this southern bucket of fresh water left then seam. A coasting steamer towed appeared; an' then back come the an' hoist me up says L But. port after a century of hard work. The Purveyor was not more than heavy rains saved them Provi- her into deep water. Pidgeon face. I didn't like it. I prefer look out fer the bear! forty feet in length; but her oak sions ran short; during the last lived to complete his voyage round red the paw. But then, it kept Bear nothn', says he.

the situation from gittin' mono-...“ “Chuck an eye down the other timbers and planking, blackened part of the voyage they lived on the world

biscuits and potatoes. They, 100, For some of the most wonderful tonous.

Iside," says L with age, were immensely heavy.

but came She had bows so bluff that I won were heartily glad to smell the land small-boat voyages along the South

African coast we must go back to time the bear remembered some right back. Bear nothin'," says

"I suppose it was about this "He disappeared, dered how long she spent on the after the ordeal of the ocean.

Dutch East India Company days this that wanted seein' to down he again, havin' no originality. Little But Good

When the Indiaman Stavenisse was the valley The face disappear-

**Well, he was there, an" he rose over the horizon.

Tiny craft built in South Africa wrecked on the Natul coast in 1686, ed once more;

an this time it stayed all the afternoon, says L From "Victory" Days.

have ventured far from their home for example, her men salved a few didn't come back. After I hadn't Reckon he must a heard ye ports. Undoubtedly the smallest great beams and other wreckage seen it for a half hour, I began was an animal trainer, an' got It is known that the Purveyor of all was the half-decked cutter They worked feverishly, and at the to think may be it had really skeered" says Steevens. was used as a supply ship to Nel-Homeward Bound. She was built end of eight months a queer,

But I wasn't joking jest then. son's fleet; some say that she was a long way from the sea-at Har-clasy boat was ready for launch one away, but I knew how you cut fer camp, an" bring...a within hearing distance of the rismith, in the Orange Free State ing. But she WEB seaworthy as like as not he was waitin' pa- ope, an git me out of this, quick, guns at Trafalgar. Her first portby a Norwegian sailor named They named her Centaurus, rolled tient as a cat, on the other side d'ye hear? says I "There's a of registry could still be read in Nilsen. He found it easy to carry her down to the water, and sailed the rock fer me to look round rattler lives here, and he's com quaint, carved letters under her her to Durban on an ex-wagon; for in her to Table Bay

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battered counter--Falmouth,

she was only twenty feet long, with |

a beam of seven feet.

Arab, Seamen

a bear could be, and thought jest

so's he could git a swipe at me in back presently, an' I don't that would jest wipe my face want to meet him. Slide"

"Well, boya, that's all. That Who knows how many tropical

Nilsen left Durhan in May, 1886, It is probable that Arah seamen clean off

bear wasn't jest what I'd wanted," "I didn't try to look round. But ports and islands she made, how many storms the little oak cutter cruised along the stormy South in dhows from Zanzibar and the

an' all at once a voice answered. We trailed him, an' after a cided to take him an” break hím 6,000 31st Oct. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama weathered? Navies changed from African coast, and sailed on, call-Indian Ocean ports visited the I kept yellin every little while; but, feelin' ugly about him. I de-

oak to steel, but the Purveyor sailing at many ports, to Norway. He South African coast before Va

had two friends with him; but da Gama. I have seen a dhow as right over my head. I tell you lot of trouble we trapped him. He ed on When the teredo worm apparently not one of them was a

far south as Beira- crazy, high it sounded good, if 'twasn't mnch threatened ber hull, when her decks leaked beyond repair and the writer, for there is no description pooped vessel, with a great open

of this strange and persons hold, a rickety mast, frayed rigg fast motor coasters took her car-achievement The Nowegians one huge, patched mainsail goes, she was left to decay.

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A year or two passed' in idleness have always been fearless seamen sea-worn sides. In such sh the first long holiday in her busy in small craft; but the three men the Arabs cross the oceans. life. Then, in 1922, a whaling of the Homeward Bound must have type has not changed for.

rom sand” years - company bought her for a coaling suffered almost as much hulk this ship which deserved a violent motion and exposure as the Viking fimeral. "I was on the Swedes in their open boat wharf the day before they towed

her away. They were her of the few solid, an

which might still

value and finally they and hove the thick, mast eet of the bilge Th a coin, not a sentiment

the crews

summer af: WO

Yes, there were bold he all these frail ships. The Temember best of all was an fly Swede who made his

little motor

fine work in the

was a sight more trouble -after we'd got him, I tell you." But afterwards, when I set myself to tryin to train him, why, I might jest za well have tried to train

quake. Do you suppose. zły was goin" to be affaid seen me afraid to′′ seen it in more. I

but when Ta

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