THE FANNY'S VOYAGE.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13455, 29 April 1914, Page 5

THE FANNY'S VOYAGE.

A" PIRATE SHIP,

HOW THE CARGO WAS TRANS-

FERRED.

(Received April 28, 10.5 p.m.) London, April 28. For three weeks the 300-ton steamer Fiinny tramped the high seas with her cargo of munitions of war without slop's papers. Therefore according to international law, she is a pirate. She weathered three heavy gales in the North Sea. She carried an Ulster captain. When the Danish authorities retained her papers the Fanny, under cover of fog, slipped to sea and ran for a Norwegian port to ascertain whether the purposs of the cruise had leaked out. ' From the newspapers it was learned that her disappearance had placed the authorities on the gui vive. During a storm a sidelight was smashed, and eventually she entered Yarmouth Roads to replace the light and gpt tobacco, but not as the Fanny.

Twice she changed her name, first to the Bertha, and then to the, Dorothy, and she was twice re-painted, besides other disguising alteration^ ' , Someone left the; ship' and proceeded to London, where he got in touch with the Ulster authorities. From Yarmouth the steamer proceeded to the English Channel and steamed to the French coast., and thence to a Lundy Is land, where she was re-christened and re-disguised; but it was considered unsafe to" approach the Ulster coast, hence the Mountjoy, manned-by a picked crew, met the Fanny a hundred miles south of Tuacar. ,'.

The vessels were lashed together, and the cargo was transhipped without displaying lights.

At dawn the vessels parted, but they met again at nightfall in Cardigan Bay, and completed the task. •

The Mounfcjoy. themnade for Lame,

One night a cruiser within a fey miles played her .searchlight on the Mountjoy, but doubtless regarded her as a harmless collier.