COMMODORE, ONCE ANCHORED HERE,
MAKES' EXCITING TRIP TO A f RICA
r ron a» anchorage
in Seldovia Bay to a
coal and clumber
freighting job in
South Africa, has oc
cupied but 'a few
short years i* the
history of * the old
four-mas ted. schooner
Commodore, b;et a lot
has•happened in those
few ^rears to make an
eventful .story* „
The Commodore, ^3
well remembered here
for she wus anchored*
in Seldovia Bay fc^ a
period. of several
years prigr to the
war, after ,bringing'
a load of tools $and.
machinery north rfor
the Iniskine Drilling
Co., Oil. venture of
Hu's s el 1 Hav en s ty i t e •
The ship was towed
north by ...a tug, and
she .waited in the
harbor here for sev
er aX years before an
other tug came- to tow
her south again. Du
ring that time, sev
eral- Seldovir.ns,
amcypg them Rufus Bo
'ven, .were hired as
Wc.tchmen aboard the
ship. "
i*fter leaving Sel
covia, according' to
an article ' ‘ in 'the
Dec. .7 issue of the
^Marine Digest, the
'Commodore started for
Durban, South africa
early in the war. ap
parently watertight
wh^n she ; left 'her
berth, .the vessel had
not. been Ion* at sea
before she began to
leak, ^nd for the
next 153 days the'
ship was pumped every
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four hours, at first
mechanically, and
than by hand, as the
pumps gradually wore
out.
Shortly after
crossing the eouator
the captaim of the
Commodore began to
act * strangely. Ke
threw the chronometer
overboard and was
caught in the act x>f
tossing' away, the rest
of the navigation in
struments. 'Once he
attempted to launch a
small' boat in a storm
off* Gape Hern to res
cue 'a women whose
cries he imagined.
•Finally . th^ crew
seized the ship, loc
ked the captain in
his1 cabin* and set out
for the 'nearest port.
They sighted *Port
Stanley in the Fa-lkin
Isl nds, but a weak of
constant storm pre
vented their berthing
and it was decided to
continue to Durban.
xifter nearly sink
ing in violent storms,
the Commodore finally
reached Africa, " where
the captain, apparent
ly recovered from his
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