Shortly
before four o’clock this evening (Friday), we learned that a vessel was driven
into Tramore Bay about half past two o;clock, the wind blowing fresh from
S.S.W., and we immediately despatched our reporter to ascertain all particulars
about her. On arriving at Tramore he at once, through a telescope, saw a vessel
( a schooner), lying about half a mile or more from a point at Brownstown Head,
in the channel of Rhineshark, on being for nearly an hour on the bar-after
clearing which, a signal gun to anchor, from the coast guard, was fired, which
was instantly attended to, and she lay there comparatively safe when we left
(six o’clock). She never attempted to weather out, and with some trouble put
in= without mainsail, carrying only a topsail, foresail, and jib. She lay in
the channel at 6 o’clock, when our reporter left, and he was informed by an old
naval gentleman that she had every chance if the wind veered round to the east
or north of working her way out of the bay by the channel, she having fortunately
succeeded in getting into the safest point of the bay under Brownstown Head.
So near did she go to the Rhineshark shore
that the crews of two boats there easily boarded her, and up until that time
there was not the slightest danger of a wreck. Her hull is painted black, and
also portions of her masts.
We are informed that she is a Norwegian
schooner, laden with ice, and consigned to Mr. Joseph S. Richardson, of this
city.
Mr.
James, jun., of Tramore, who rode down to the Rabbit Borough, in view of the schooner,
picked up a board, about a foot square, on which were painted in black letters-“Chateau,
St. Julian.” She probably belonged to
some foreign wrecked vessel, during the late tempestuous weather.
Two boats put out from Tramore to board the
schooner, and no doubt, succeeded in doing so, but they had not returned at six
o’clock. The town was quite on the qui
vive during the evening, the storm wall, strand and rabbit borough were thickly
studded with persons of both sexes, in hourly expectation of seeing-to them a
novelty-a “shipwreck.”
The schooner lies within about 600 yards
of where “La Capricieuse” was wrecked, nearly six months ago.[1]
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