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'THE MARINE RECORD. 3 THE STOVEN BOAT, A YARN FROM THE JOURNADOF A SAILOR. Written for the Marine Record: Of all pursuits that men follow in order to obtain a subsistance, there is none ‘that will compare, in danger and hardship, with that of a whaleman, and yet how little the people on the shore know of thie. It is in order to let them have some insight into this business that the following narrative is writ- ten. The facte, as they occurred, were noted in the journal or log soon after they trans- vired: On the 11th day of December, 1837, the good ship Croesus, of Newburgh, Captain Perkins, was cruising somewhere between the latitude of 86 and 37.8 and longitude of 60 east, in search of right whale. It was in in the forenoon and the old ship was mov- ing along under the topgallant sails with a light breeze at the rate of about five knots the hour. The most hardened grumbler could not find fault with the day. At the fore and wain topgallant crosstrees were two men on the lookout for whales. It was now nearly four o’clock in the after- noon when the man in the main sung our, “There she blows !”? He repeated the cry regularly five or six ‘times. All was now excitement among the officers and men. Every one was anxious to know tf it was the kind of whale that was wanted. ‘ The mate hailed the man at the mast head _—*Where ‘away is that whale? What do you eall her?” ; “Right whale, Sir, on the lea beam, two miles off. Look out sharply for her.” “Sing out when the ship heads for her.” “Aye, aye, Sir.” “Keep her away,’ said the captain to the man at the helm. ‘Boy, hand me the spy glaas.”’ “Steady !’? sung out the man at the. mast head. “Steady it is,” answered the man at the wheel. ‘The captain started.to go aloft. “Mr. A,” to the mate, “you may square in the after yards and then call all hands.” “Forward, there!’ shouted the mate. **Haul the mainsail up and square the yards! Bill!” to an old sailor-— “Sir???” “Call all hands.’’ “Aye, aye, Sir. All hands ahoy,’” shouted old Bill, in a.voice like the tempest. “stand by the boats.’’? In less than no time the deck was alive with men. “Buat steerers get your boats ready.”’ In a moment the bouts were in readiness, the tubs put in and the lines bent on the harpoons, the crew standing by ready to fol- low the boat. Down went the boats and down followed the crew, down to the water when the word came from the captain to lower away. “There she blows,’ sung out the man at the fore, ‘‘not halt a mile off.” “Down helm!” shouted the captain. “Mr, A, brace the mizzen topsail! Hoist and awing the boats and lower away !”’ As the boats struck the water; every man on his thwart, with his hands on the loom ot the oar, and in less time than it takes to write ‘it the three boats were cutting their way through the water in the direction of the whale. It was my duty to steer the mate’s boat, and she bappened to be the fastest puller, so that, although we all left the ship together, and fora few rods kept nearly head and head with each other, still we knew well enough that as soon as the word came from the mate to “give way’? we should drop the others in a moment. So we did not fret our- selves, but kept cool for a tight pull when the whale should show bimselt on the sur- face ot the water again, which he did ina moment after. “There she is,’ cried the mate, “and not over ten rods from the boat. Now, my dear fellows, lay back hard, I tell you! There she blows! Only give my boys aud she is ours !”’ ; The boat bounded forward like a thing of ite, “Spring like’ tigers,’? says the mate, his voice sinking almost to a‘whisper. L looked to see what kind of a chance I was tohave, at the same time pulling at my ear with all my might. We were going on to her star- board quarter, just the chance I liked to fast- en toa whale. “Stand up,’’shoured the mate, and ina moment I had two harpvons to the hitches into her. “Stern—stern all!” sung out the mate, as he saw the iron in the whale, “Come here, my boy,” he said tome. We shifted ends— he to the head, and I to the etern of the boat. The whale started off like lightning. “Fold on line,” said the mate, and away We shot after her, like an arrow from a bow. lhe mate by this time had his lance ready. “Haul me on that whale,’ he shouted, and all hands turned to hauling line while I coiled it awav in the stern sheets. We had got nearly up to the whale when she went to “sounding,” trking the line right up and down trom the bead of the boat. I had two turns of the line around pe loggerhead and was holding on: as the at would bear, when, all at onee, nnother larger whale, that we knew nothing abour, shot up out of the water hearly her whole length, ina slanting position, hanging di- rectly over the boat. I threw off the turns from the loggerhead and shouted to the meu to “stern,” But it was of no use; she fel! the whole of her body on the boat. I heard a crash, and as 1 went down I felt a pressure of water over my head, caused, as I then thought, by the whale’s flakes as she struck, How long I was under water [know not, but I remember that all looked dark above me and [tried very hard to shove my head through, in order to breathe. At last L sue. ceeded, but what a sight was that on whieh L gazed when I found myeelfon the surtace of the water! Abouta rod from me was the whale that we were fast to, th rashing the wa- ter into a foam with his flukes, the ocean red with biood, and the crimson streams pouring from the wounds made by harpoons. Ln xnother direction I could see pieces o1 the boat floating around. At the distance of two or three miles f could occasionally yet a glimpse of the ship as I rode on the top ofa swell and nota human being in eight. Most forcibly-did the words of the poet apply to my situation at this moment: “Qh, solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face. Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.” So thought I, as I struck out for a piece of our once beautitul boat, a few rods distant. The crew came up, one after another, eatch- ing at anything they could see to keep them afloat, One poor fellow came paddling along with two or three oars under him, crying out that his back was broken. An- other of the crew and myself got him.on the piece of a boat that we had hold of, His thigh was broken and he could not move:his legs at all. The second mate svon atter picked us up with his boat, and so much had we been engaged in looking out for our selves that we did not perceive that one of our number was missing. But, alas! it was too soon found out. He was a young man aboutseventeen years old and did not belong to the boat, but wentin the plaze of the mid- ship oarsman, who was sick at the time. The whale fell directly on him and proba- bly killed him in a moment. With what feelings we pulled ronnd and round the spot where the boat was stoven, nawilling to be- lieve, ‘even after we knew there was.no hope, that our shipmate was gone, never more.to return. And how silently we glided along- side the ship and hoisted in our poor ship- mute, now lamed for hfe. t Ol that some of these people who look up- on sailors as little better than brutes, and who know little or nothing of the kind feel- ings and growing affections that are con- cealed under their rough exteriors, could have seen what I saw on board that ship, even their hearts would melt, and they would find that it is not always the polished and educated, the smooth-faced and hand- some man, that has the warmest heart or the most generous feelings. J.W.#H. STEERING BY STEAM. A recently invented steam steering ap- paratus has been given atrial on a new Sound steamer plying between New York and Boston, and according to all accounts it is very successful. ‘The plans were made under the supervision of a marine architect, Herman Winter. -‘The following is a com plete Cescription of the gear: “This steerer combines the best points of asteam with a hand steerer, and so perfect and simple is tne combination thac either works like a charm, the changes being made, if required, in less than twenty seconds. When steering by steam the drum on which the tiller chain is wound and unwound is driven off the engine shaft by a cut worm and screw gear, with adjustable thrust bear- ings, and is operated by a small hand wheel in the pilot house, with Williamson Brothers’ attachment. “The gearing is automatically and so evenly lubricated that the wear is nil—there is no lost motion, and, consequently, there is absolutely no noise. The arrangement for detaching and changing from steam to hand ig done by means of a screw and hand wheel, which detaches a conical friction clutch, thereby releasing the drum from the engine, and allowing it to be operated by the large hand wheels in the pilot house. Itis but the work of an instant in reality to make the change. In the vessel on which the apparatus was tried all the tiller connec tions are of heavy chain and wire rope, and what little slack may follow use is taken up at the tiller quadrant and on the end of the wire rope. There are no rope messengers to slack up, no t les to haul taut, and no chance for ropes to slip around the groves in the wheel. 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