. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. SAF FRANCISCO. SATURDAY, MARCH, 19 188 SUBSCRIPTION FIVE DOLLARS A YEAE Sporting Notes. Captain Samuel Samuels, who is now sailing Dauntless across the Atlantic in the race against Coronet, has had a career as romantic as that of the most romantic of successful seamen. At the age of eleven he ran away from home and made his first voyage from the Schuylkill River to New York. There he deserted his ship and made his way to Mobile, where the fate of hundreds of other young sailors met him. He was "crimped" and shipped on a revenue brig as cox- swain of t
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. SAF FRANCISCO. SATURDAY, MARCH, 19 188 SUBSCRIPTION FIVE DOLLARS A YEAE Sporting Notes. Captain Samuel Samuels, who is now sailing Dauntless across the Atlantic in the race against Coronet, has had a career as romantic as that of the most romantic of successful seamen. At the age of eleven he ran away from home and made his first voyage from the Schuylkill River to New York. There he deserted his ship and made his way to Mobile, where the fate of hundreds of other young sailors met him. He was "crimped" and shipped on a revenue brig as cox- swain of the captain's gig. From the Revenue boat he was shanghied and made his first voyage to Liverpool before the mastjon a Baltimore brick trader. His next experience was on the frigate Houston of the Texas navy. When three years of this rough-and-tumble life ha J passed he turned up at home. For seven years he went through all the wild expe- riences of a sailor's life, from port to port, from ship to ship, nearly all the time having to endure the privations of fore- castle life, but by close observation and hard-earned expe- rience he mastered every detail of the seaman's profession. At theage of twenty-one he was made a captain. He had all the knowledge which the position demanded, and during his ten years of apprenticeship as seaman and officer he had per- formed many daring featswhich had made him famous. The Dreadnaught, with which Captain Samuel's name will be ever associated in marineliteratnre, was built under his supervision in 1853, and following year, under his command Bhe beat the Cunarder Canada on her return trip from Liverpool. In 1856 the Dreadnaught made the run of 3,000 miles from Sandy Hook to Rock Light, Liverpool, in thirteen days and eight hours. And in 1S60, he made the record for a sailing ship which has never been equalled from Sandy Hook to Queenstown miles in nine days and seventeen hours. Daring his command of this famous vessel Captain Samuels had m
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