VESSEL SEEN BY THE QUEEN
Wreckage Bears Letters “L. Paint”
Not Same as the Well Known Sealing Schooner
The Annie E. Paint is Now Safe at Her Wharf, So She Cannot Be the Vessel in Question. No Record of Schooner or Small Craft Bearing the Name of “L. Paint”
(Special Dispatch to The Herald.) VICTORIA, B. C., Jan. 14, 1902 — Since the heavy gales of December 3 and 4 and 25 and 26, news of the finding of wreckage has been from time to time brought to the city, but heretofore nothing has been learned of the identity of the vessels that were victims of the winter gales.
It was known that some of the wreckage was from the lost collier Matteawan and the abandoned bark Highland Light, In all probability, contributed’ to the wreckage found on the more western part of the coast, and now comes news from Albarnie. from which point it was brought by the steamer Queen City, of the finding of wreckage from the upturned craft already reported, with letters “L. Paint.” Another dispatch says the name of the upturned vessel is “Annie L. Paint.” Much wreckage has been found by W. P. Daykin, the lighthouse keeper at Carmanah point, and amongst this wreckage, which has drifted into the beaches contiguous to Carmanah. Is some which bears the letters “L. Paint.”
Including this is a piece of the hatch combings of the schooner painted red, with the tonnage marked on it, showing the lost vessel, which has turned turtle during the storm, to be seventy-five tons. Nothing is known anywhere along the coast of the crew of the upturned vessel which was seen by the steamer Queen City on her present trip, floating between Carmanah Point and Point Renfrew, at the entrance to the straits. Other wreckage consisting of two doors, three oars, one life preserver, a medicine chest, etc., has been found near Neah bay.
Records of shipping, both British and American, and the list of vessels owned on the Pacific coast, include no schooner or other small craft with the name “L. Paint” or any very similar name, other than that of the sealing schooner Annie E. Paint, which is at her wharf, in the upper harbor preparing for her sealing cruise, and therefore safe. It is fortunate that she Is in port, for the sailing schooner has a tonnage of about seventy-five tons, and with the similarity of tonnage and of name the impression doubtless would have been formed by many that the well known sealing schooner had been a victim of the storm and with the fate of the vessel’s crew in doubt, there would have been much anxiety among relatives of the crew of the sealer.
Sealing Schooners – The Pelagic Sealing Industry boomed from the 1880’s until it was closed by international treaty in 1911. The sealing was done from small open boats based aboard relatively small sailing schooners.
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