A FINE VESSEL

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 57, 4 September 1937, Page 24

A FINE VESSEL

THE LOCrITORRIDOfo

Although her maiden voyagevwas a tragic one, the Loch Torridon, 'one of the most graceful models ever launched from the Glasgow yards, madeiimany fine runs during her career. Ojn her maiden voyage she went out/ from Glasgow to Hobson's Bay undefif Captain Pinder, arriving on Ajiril 27, 1882, 105 days out. This gave r*> indication of her sailing capabilities, so she was not taken up to load! wool, but sent across ■ to Calcutta load jute. She left Calcutta on Auf^ust 22, and on October 9, when off the Cape, she ran into a heavy gale, feaptain Pinder hove.her to on the starboard tack under a close-reefed main and after a bit wore her rountft on to the port tack,,but with the squjbtlls increasing she lay down to it,, pipping her starboard rail. Thereupon 'Captain Pinder decide* to wear her biack on1 to the starboard tack. The mfcite besought him not to do this Without setting the foresail, but, unfortunately, having been lucky once, the captain insisted, with the result that wljen she got off before the wind she riad n<jt enough way on her and a tremendous sea came roaring over the stem and carried overboard the master, second mate, man at the wheel, sailmaktir, and a boy, all being drowned. Th^ mate also was swept away, but was^ saved by a hitch of the main brace getting round his leg. On the following day the weather moderated, and thfe mate brought the ship home to Plymouth, from whence she was towed to

London. j Captain Pattman was appointed to the command of the Loch Torridon in 1882, and under his captaincy shie made many splendid passages. She was, it is said, one of the first vessels;! on to which horses walked direct fi/ora the