Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 297, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1912 — FIVE MONTHS SPORT OF SEAS [ARTICLE]

FIVE MONTHS SPORT OF SEAS

Oil Barge Woodhall, Long Believed Lost Arrives at Trinidad, According to Message. New York. —After battling for five months on a seemingly shipless ocean, Capt Edwin L. Smith of London has arrived at Trinidad with the fifty-five foot oil barge Woodhall, from English shipyards, according to word received by friends here. Bmith dared to pilot the little barge on her perilous trip. Which was proposed to save the expense of towing, where a dozen other London skippers feared to try It It was expected that the trip could be made In forty days, but she met adverse weather and was the sport of the seas. In the meantime the boat had been given up as lost According to the report received here the captain found an American stowaway on board, who helped to deplete the meager supply of provisions. During the last few days the crw had to live on a biscuit and half a cnp of fresh water a day, as they were unable to sight a "ship to aid them.