A MYSTERY UF THE NORTH SEA.

Feilding Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 119, 16 November 1901, Page 2

A MYSTERY UF THE NORTH SEA.

The derelict hulk of a Norwegian brigantint, the Jeanefcte, was recently towed into Yarmouth Roads and beached. For a week she had been drifting about the North Sea without a crew. The story of the Jeanette's wanderings begins on September Ist. On that day Captain John Bruce, of the steamer Royal Dane, on a voyage from Newcastle from Hamburg, sighted hcsr 200 miles south East of Tynemoui.h. She was then waterlogged, but both masts were standing and all her sails but the main and jib were set. Captain Dothie, of the steamer Pinto, on arriving at Plymouth, re- w ported seeing her on September sth. «J| She had then only one mast standing, and her rigging and canvas were in shreds. Although more than a week had thus elapsed, no news had been received of her crew. Od the following Saturday night two Bamsgate smacks, the Shamrock and the Bonnie Belle, came up, with her off tho Galloper lightship, near the mouth of the Thames. They sent boats' crews aboard, and made cables fast, and commenced towing. They towod the Jeanette as far as Lowestof t by Monday Morning, when the Yarmouth tug United bore down and took charge of the brigantine. By this time her decks were awash, and the vessel only floated by reason of her wood cargo. She was thus prohibited from entering Yarmouth Harbour, and was accordingly run ashore on the beach. There she lies. From the stump of her mainmast flutters a handkerchief and a seaman's garment, obviously intended as distress signals. Some lashings suggest that the crew tied themselves to the mainmast and were swept awny. The foremast hangs over the starboard side of the bowsprit with other wreckage.