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diff --git a/31263.txt b/31263.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..57c4b61 --- /dev/null +++ b/31263.txt @@ -0,0 +1,936 @@ +Project Gutenberg's Bark Kathleen Sunk By A Whale, by Thomas H. Jenkins + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Bark Kathleen Sunk By A Whale + +Author: Thomas H. Jenkins + +Release Date: February 12, 2010 [EBook #31263] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BARK KATHLEEN SUNK BY A WHALE *** + + + + +Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images +generously made available by The Internet Archive/American +Libraries.) + + + + + + +[Illustration: ABANDONING BARK KATHLEEN IN MID-OCEAN] + + + + +BARK KATHLEEN SUNK + +BY A WHALE + + + +AS RELATED BY THE CAPTAIN, + +THOMAS H. JENKINS + + + +To which is added an account of two like occurrences, +the loss of +SHIPS ANN ALEXANDER AND ESSEX + + + +Published by +H. S. HUTCHINSON & CO. +New Bedford, +Massachusetts + +Copyrighted 1902 +H. S. HUTCHINSON & CO. +New Bedford, Mass. + + + + +BARK KATHLEEN + +Rammed and Sunk by an Infuriated Bull Whale. + + +(New York Journal.) + + The most thrilling episode ever known in the history of the + American Whale Fisheries has just occurred. + + It is full of the mystery and thrill and terror of the deep sea. It + is even more wonderful than any of the stories told by Mr. Frank T. + Bullen, author of the famous "Cruise of the Cachalot." + + + + +CREW LIST + + +Of Bark Kathleen when she sailed from New Bedford, Mass., October 22, +1901, for a whaling voyage in the South Atlantic: + + Thomas H Jenkins, South Dartmouth, master; J. W. Nichols, first + mate; Paul Gomes, second mate; Manuel Viera and Morris Murray, + boat-headers; Phillipe J. Viera, George Williams, Herbert R. + Reynolds, Cecelia Manuel Delgardo, boatsteerers; J. A. Jensen, + cooper, carpenter, and blacksmith; Alfred W. Ellis, steward; + Benjamin J. Taber, cook; Julio Alves, Jocking Barrows, Manuel + Fernandez, Manuel Fonseca, Charles H. Lutz, ordinary seamen; Manuel + Teceira, preventer boatsteerer; Pedro Manuel Silva, seaman; Aurilla + Lopez, seaman and preventer boatsteerer; Frank A. Bragg, green hand + and carpenter; Antone Monterio, Arthur P. McPherson, Louis Sharp, + J. A. H. Nickerson, Clarence W. Thwing, Rodney Morrison, William + Glass, William H. Carr, green hands. Mrs. Jenkins accompanied her + husband on the cruise. + +[Illustration: READY TO SAIL] + + + + +INTRODUCTION + + +The Kathleen was about 195 tons and with outfits was valued at $20,000, +being partially insured by her several owners. She also had on board at +the time of the accident a small quantity of oil taken since leaving +port. + +The Kathleen had always been called a "lucky ship" and had made many +good voyages. + +She was built for the merchant service at Philadelphia in 1844, and +after a year in the trade, was purchased by Captain James Slocum and +fitted as a whaler. Her first master in the whaling industry was +Captain William Allen, and she had in her day made many a good voyage. +Among her masters have been Captain Charles Childs, Captain Daniel W. +Gifford and Captain Samuel R. Howland. She had been almost entirely +built over only a few years ago, and just before being fitted for a +cruise to St. Helena in 1899, where she loaded oil, was thoroughly +overhauled. + +Last year, it will be remembered, the Kathleen arrived in port in a +disabled condition. This was on Sept. 28th, 1901, when she was +commanded by Captain Fred H. Smith. For three days that month on the +6th, 7th and 8th, while southeast of Barbados, she was on her beam ends +and at the mercy of the sea. The crew lived on the quarter deck at the +time, not daring to go below. In fitting her up for the last cruise she +was newly sparred. + +[Illustration: BARK KATHLEEN AT DOCK] + + + + +STORY OF THE LOSS OF BARK KATHLEEN + +Told by the Captain, + +THOMAS H. JENKINS + + +Having been requested to give an account of the sinking of the Bark +Kathleen by a whale I will do the best I can, though I think that those +who have read the papers know as much or more about it than I do. + +We sailed from New Bedford the 22d October, 1901, and with the +exception of three weeks of the worst weather I have ever had on +leaving home, everything went fairly well till we arrived out on the +12-40 ground.[1] + + [1] What is known by the whalers as the "12-40 Ground" is located + in the Atlantic Ocean about 12 deg. Latitude N., 40 deg. Longitude W., + approximately 1,000 miles off the coast of + Brazil.--(ED.) + +The day we arrived there we raised a large whale and chased him most +all day but could not seem to get any aim of him. We lost the run of +him at last in a rain squall. + +A few days after, the 17th of March, 1902, was one of the finest +whaling days I have ever seen, smooth water and a clear sky. When they +were going up to mast head I told them to look sharp for some one was +going to raise a whale before night. + +We steered different courses during the fore-noon and at 1 p.m. the man +aloft raised a white water which proved to be sperm whales, and there +was a lot of them, some heading one way, some another. + +When we got within a mile of them we lowered four boats, and soon after +Mr. Nichols, the first mate, struck a whale, the other whales went to +leeward and I followed them with the ship till I was sure the boats saw +them. + +Mr. Nichols then had his whale dead about one mile to windward, so I +came to wind on the port tack, but it took us some time to get up to +the mate, as we could not carry any foretopsail or flying jibs as the +topmast had given out. + +[Illustration: SPERM WHALING--THE CHASE] + +I stood on the port tack a while and then tacked. When we got braced up +the dead whale was one point off the lee bow. I saw we were going to +fetch him all right. Mr. Nichols had wafted his whale and was chasing +some more. By that time, about 3 p.m., the lookout called out that the +three boats to leeward were all fast. Of course we were all glad to +hear that. I ran the ship alongside of the dead whale and after darting +at him two or three times managed to get fast and get him alongside. +Just then it was reported that the boats to leeward were out of sight. +That worried me some so I told the cooper to get the fluke chain on the +whale and I would go aloft and see if I could see the boats. + +At this time Mr. Nichols had given up chasing and was coming on board. +I got up to the topmast crosstrees and sat down. I then heard a whale +spout off the weather beam and glancing that way, saw sure enough a +large whale not more than five hundred feet from us, coming directly +for the ship. + +Mr. Nichols was then alongside, just going to hoist his boat. I told +him there was a whale, a big fellow, trying to get alongside and to go +and help him along and he did help him along. He took him head and head +and did not get fast. I don't know why. He certainly was near enough, +the boatsteerer said too near, and did not have a chance to swing his +iron. + +Instead of that whale going down or going to windward as they most +always do, he kept coming directly for the ship, only much faster than +he was coming before he was darted at. When he got within thirty feet +of the ship he saw or heard something and tried to go under the ship +but he was so near and was coming so fast he did not have room enough +to get clear of her. + +He struck the ship forward of the mizzen rigging and about five or six +feet under water. It shook the ship considerably when he struck her, +then he tried to come up and he raised the stern up some two or three +feet so when she came down her counters made a big splash. The whale +came up on the other side of the ship and laid there and rolled, did +not seem to know what to do. I asked the cooper if he thought the whale +had hurt the ship any and he said he did not think so for he had not +heard anything crack. + +[Illustration: SPERM WHALING--THE CAPTURE] + +Mr. Nichols was still trying to get to the whale when I thought we had +no business fooling with that whale any more that day as the other +three boats were out of sight and fast to whales and night coming on, +so I told him to come alongside. "What for?" asked Mr. Nichols, "the +whale is laying there." I said, "Never mind the whale but come +alongside and hoist the boat up as soon as you can." He did so and I +told him to get his glasses and come up to masthead and see if he could +see the boats. His eyes were younger than mine and he soon raised them. +Just at this time one of the men went to the forecastle to get some dry +clothes and he found the floor covered with water. He cried out and +then I knew the ship must have quite a hole in her. I immediately +ordered flags set at all three mastheads, a signal for all boats to +come on board under any and all circumstances. + +Mr. Viera was then not more than a mile and a half from the ship and I +knew he could not but help seeing the flags, but it was no use, he +would not let go that whale he was fast to. If he had only come to the +ship they could have got some more water and bread. I set two gangs at +work right away, one getting water and the other getting bread. The +cask of bread was between decks and three men staid with that cask till +the water came in and floated the cask away from them. + +I then went to the cabin and found Mrs. Jenkins reading. She did not +know that there was anything the matter with the ship. I told her the +ship was sinking and to get some warm clothing as soon as she could but +not to try to save anything else. Well, the first thing she did was to +go for the parrot and take him on deck. Then she got a jacket and an +old shawl. + +By that time it was time to take to the boat, which we did without any +confusion whatever. + +There were twenty-one of us in the boat and with the water and bread +and some old clothes she was pretty near the water, so deep that the +water came over the centre board, so that some of us had to keep +bailing all the time, while the rest were paddling down to the boat +that was still laying by the whale. + +[Illustration: DECK OF KATHLEEN, LOOKING AFT] + +The ship rolled over to windward five minutes after we got clear of +her. Well, we got to Mr. Viera at last and divided the men and give him +his share of bread and water. Then it was dark and very necessary that +we should find the other boats, for I knew they did not see the ship +capsize and they would be looking for her for a day or so with no water +to drink. Well, we set our sails and steered as near as we could where +we thought the boats ought to be and about nine o'clock we raised them. + +They were very much surprised to hear that the Kathleen was gone. I +gave them some bread and water and divided the men up again, so three +boats had ten men each and one boat nine men. I told them all to keep +in sight of me and that I would keep a lantern burning all night. We +then started for the island of Barbados, distant 1,060 miles. It was a +beautiful moonlight night with a smooth sea. When morning came there +was not a boat to be seen so I came to the wind and laid with the sheet +slacked off over an hour and raised a boat to windward steering for us. +It was the third mate and he wanted some water. The water we gave him +the night before was all salt. Well, we divided with him again and +again started on our journey with five gallons of water. I told the +third mate to keep up with me if he could but I should not stop for him +or any one else again. About nine o'clock a.m. some one said he saw +something off the port bow. We all looked and made it out to be smoke +from a steamer and soon saw she was coming right for us, so we knew we +were saved. + +When she got near we saw she had a whale boat on her davits. They had +picked up our second mate an hour before and he had told the captain +that there were three other boats adrift and one of them had the +captain and wife on board, so he was steaming around with two men at +the masthead with glasses looking for us. We got alongside and she was +way out of water. I asked Mrs. Jenkins if she could get up on a rope +ladder they had put over the side and she said yes, she could get up if +it was twice as high and she was not long in getting on deck. + +[Illustration: DECK OF KATHLEEN, LOOKING FOR'ARD] + +Captain Dalton met us and welcomed us on board of the Borderer of +Glasgow. He was very kind to us and did everything possible for us for +the nine days we were on board his steamer, gave up his room to Mrs. +Jenkins and myself even. + +In nine days we were landed at Pernambuco and from there we came to +Philadelphia on steamer Pydna, Captain Crossley. + +We found friends everywhere we went; even in Philadelphia I had +telegrams asking me to telegraph them if I needed any assistance. We +arrived at New Bedford in due time and even Mr. Wing, (the agent of the +Bark Kathleen), met me smilingly and seemed glad to see me. Everything +seemed to work our way after the accident. When we were leaving the +Borderer Capt. Dalton gave me thirty dollars in American bills, all he +had with him. + +He told me to take it and if I felt able when I got home to send the +amount to his wife in England. It seems that Capt. Dalton had been +running down this way for some years and having met head currents +decided _this_ trip to make a passage three or four degrees to the +eastward to see if he couldn't get out of it. + +Owing to this fact we were picked up as we were. + +As we had not seen a sail of any description for some time we might +have been days in our boat before seeing any vessel. + +The other boat containing one of the mates and 9 seamen landed safely +at the Barbados after being in the boat 9 days with but 5 gallons of +water and a little ship bread. + +[Illustration: TWO FAMOUS OLD WHALERS, BARKS ROUSSEAU AND DESDEMONA] + + + + +LOSS OF THE SHIPS ANN ALEXANDER AND ESSEX. + + +Cases of whales rushing head on are very rare. One instance which will +be remembered by some of the older residents of the city was in 1851, +when the ship Ann Alexander was sunk in the Pacific ocean by a maddened +whale. + +In the Whaleman's Shipping List of Nov. 4, 1851, is a very full account +of that occurrence. The story, which is substantially as follows, first +appeared in the Panama Herald, as told by Captain John S. Deblois, +follows: + +The ship Ann Alexander sailed from New Bedford, June 1st, 1850, for a +cruise in the South Pacific. Having taken 500 barrels of sperm oil in +the Atlantic, Captain Deblois proceeded on the voyage to the Pacific. + +On the 20th of August, 1851, while cruising on the "Off Shore grounds," +at 9 o'clock in the morning, whales were discovered, and at noon of the +same day succeeded in making fast to one. + +The mate's boat made fast to the whale, which ran with the boat for +some time, and then suddenly turning about rushed at the boat with open +jaws, crushing the little craft into splinters. Captain Deblois rescued +the boat's crew. + +Later the waist boat was lowered from the ship and another attack made +upon the leviathan. The mate again in charge of the attacking boat +experienced another smashup, for in the battle the whale again turned +on the boat's crew and crushed the second boat. The crew was saved and +all hands returned to the ship, which proceeded after the whale. + +The ship passed on by him, and immediately after it was discovered that +the whale was making for the ship. As he came up near her they hauled +on the wind and suffered the monster to pass her. + +After he had fairly passed they kept off to overtake and attack him +again. When the ship had reached within about 50 rods of him the crew +discovered that the whale had settled down deep below the surface of +the water, and as it was near sundown, it was decided to give up the +pursuit. + +The ship was moving about five knots, and while Captain Deblois stood +at the rail he suddenly saw the whale rushing at the ship at the rate +of 15 knots. In an instant the monster struck the ship with tremendous +violence, shaking her from stem to stern. She quivered under the +violence of the shock as if she had struck upon a rock. + +The whale struck the ship about two feet from the keel, abreast the +foremast, knocking a great hole entirely through her bottom, through +which the water roared and rushed in impetuously. The anchors and +cables were thrown overboard, as she had a large quantity of pig iron +aboard. The ship sank rapidly, all effort to keep her afloat proving +futile. + +Captain Deblois ordered all hands to take to the boats and was the last +to leave the ship, doing so by jumping from the vessel into the sea and +swimming to the nearest boat. The ship was on her beam end, her +topgallant yards under water. + +They hung around in the vicinity of the Ann Alexander all that night, +and the next day the captain boarded his vessel and cutting away the +masts she righted, when they succeeded in getting stores from her hold, +with which to supply their boats, should it become necessary to make a +boat voyage to land. + +On August 22 ship Nantucket, Captain Gibbs, cruising in that vicinity, +discovered the imperiled sailors and taking them in charge landed them +at Paita, September 15th. The Ann Alexander was hopelessly wrecked and +left to her fate on August 23. + +Five months after this disaster this pugnacious whale was captured by +the Rebecca Simms of this port. Two of the Ann Alexander's harpoons +were found in him and his head had sustained serious injuries, pieces +of the ship's timbers being imbedded in it. The whale yielded 70 to 80 +barrels of oil. + +[Illustration: WHALERS FITTING OUT] + +The only other known case of a like nature occurred to the ship Essex +of Nantucket, commanded by Captain George Pollard, Jr. + +She sailed from Nantucket, August 12, 1819, for a cruise in the Pacific +ocean. On the morning of November 20, 1819, latitude 0.40 south and +longitude 119 west, whales were discovered and all three boats lowered +in pursuit. + +The mate's boat soon struck a whale, but a blow of the animal's tail +opening a bad hole in the boat, the crew was obliged to cut from him. + +In the meantime, the captain's and second mate's boats had fastened to +another whale, and the mate, heading the ship for the other boats, set +about overhauling his boat preparatory to lowering again. + +While doing this he saw a large sperm whale break water about 20 rods +from the ship. The whale disappeared, but immediately came up again +about a ship's length off, and made directly for the vessel, going at a +velocity of about three miles an hour, and the Essex was advancing at +about the same rate of speed. + +Scarcely had the mate ordered the boy at the helm to put it hard up, +when the whale, with greatly accelerated speed, struck the ship with +his head just forward of the forechains. + +The ship brought up suddenly and violently and trembled like a leaf. +The whale passed under the vessel, scraping her keel as he went, came +up on the leeward side, and lay apparently stunned for a moment. + +The vessel began to settle at the head with the whale 100 yards off +thrashing the water violently with his tail and opening and closing his +jaws with great fury. + +While the mate was thinking of getting the two extra boats clear, as +the vessel had begun to settle rapidly, the cry was started by a +sailor: "Here he is; he is making for us again!" + +The whale came down for the ship with twice his ordinary speed and a +line of foam about a rod in width, made with his tail, which he +continually thrashed from side to side, marked his coming. + +The whale crashed into the bows of the Essex, staving them completely +in directly under the cathead. The whale after the second assault +passed under the ship and out of sight to the leeward. + +The crew were in a fix, in mid-ocean, a thousand miles from the nearest +land and nothing but the frail whaleboat to save them. + +The lashings of the spare boat were cut and she was launched with the +ship falling on her beam ends. The ship hung together for three days. +Provisions were taken from her and the whaleboats strengthened. + +The boats started for the coast of Chile or Peru and after a hard time +they landed at Ducies island. Unable to find subsistence there they +again started, Dec. 27th, after leaving three of their number, of their +own desire, and commenced to make the perilous voyage to the island of +Juan Fernandez. + +Many of the boats' crew died and the recital states that the flesh of a +dead comrade was eaten by members of the mate's boat. + +On Feb. 17th the surviving crew of the mate's boat were picked up by +brig Indian. Captain Pollard and Charles Ramsdale, the sole survivors +of the captain's boat, were picked up Feb. 23d by a Nantucket whaler, +and the third boat was never heard from. + + (_New Bedford Evening Standard_). + + + + +APPENDIX. + + +Through the efforts of the New Bedford Board of Trade Captain Dalton +has been presented by the U.S. Government a gold watch suitably +inscribed in addition to the set of resolutions and pair of marine +glasses presented him by that Board in recognition of his services in +rescuing the Captain and crew of the Kathleen. + + + + +DRIFTWOOD + +FOR OPEN FIREPLACES + + +Driftwood consists of the sheathing and planking torn from old whaling +ships, forming the only satisfactory and reliable form for Driftwood, +as each piece of it being completely impregnated with copper through +the action of the salt water will, while burning, delight the eye with +brilliant changing colors. + +It should be used in the fireplace, not to kindle the fire, nor when +the wood or coal is blazing freely, but after a glowing bed of coals is +formed, as the crowning touch of beauty, lay on one, two, or three +pieces of this magic wood. + +Then with more than sunset splendor, it will flame and glow and die +away and glow again, giving up itself in a glory of color that breathes +out beauty, witchery, mystery, all in one. + +Packed in barrels and shipped to any address by + +H. 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