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Manga Reva Was Bought for $5,000, Raised and Repaired, Sold for $300,000, Figured In International Complications, and Sunk r I NO BE resurrected from a watery grave where she had lain for 15 years and afterward to figure in international proceedings on two. sepa- rate occasions, only to founder a few hours after leaving port is the unusual experience, even in these days of unusual experiences of the American bark Manca Reva. This vessela few months ago, was raised from the mud at the mouth of a Liberian river and loaded with a cargo, towed to this country and _re- paired and refitted throughout. She was then loaded by the Freighters’ Transpor- tation Co., 42 Broadway, New York City, with a cargo of tobacco valued at $500,000 and cleared from Bal- timore for Rotterdam. A few weeks later, the London office of Davies, Tur- ner & Co., who acted as agents for the . Freighters’’ .Transpoftation®, Go., cabled that the bark was being detained under orders of the British admiralty, off the Downs, — below Falmouth, due to the fact that she was not provided with the Netherlands Overseas Trust Co. permits which Great Britain requires on all contraband goods consigned to Holland, as a guarantee that they will not be reshipped. to Ger- many. News of the detention was imme- diately communicated to ‘the Freight- ers’ Transportation Co., who brought it to the attention of the government, with the result that the state depart- ment cabled for further informa- tion from the United States solici- tor general to the American embassy at London, and from the proper British FIG. 1—E. FREDERICK WEILL, VICE PRESIDENT, FREIGHTERS’ TRANS- PORTATION.*CO., ; CHARTERER, AND. CAPT. JOSEPH G. PARK OF MANGA REVA authorities. It was then established that tobacco had not been added to the list of contraband until Sept. 1, while Manca Reva had sailed Aug 21, and thus the Netherlands Overseas Trust Co. certificates were not required. As a result, the vessel was released, after having -been detained four or fire days. Nothing as yet has developed as to the matter of redress for the delay to which the vessel was subjected but her agents hope some day to recover for the four or five days which she lost. Thus ended the first international com- plication. Manca Reva then proceeded to Rotterdam, in tow of an ocean- going tug, since it is not considered safe for sailing vessels to negotiate the mine- strewn waters off Holland unaided. At Rotterdam, she again got into inter- national difficulties. The vessel was permitted to discharge her cargo but the Netherlands Overseas Trust Co. re- fused to clear her from the port unless certain conditions were fulfilled. One of these was that the owners of the ves- sel give bond that the vessel’s range of sailing, following her departure from Rotterdam, be confined to certain ports, not including any in belligerent coun- tries. Her owners lodged a statement of the case with the state department at Washington and for a time refused to consent to this arrangement. The loss of revenue due to the ship’s idle- ness pending a decision by the Amer- ican and Dutch governments, how- ever, threatened to reach such pro- portions that the owners, under pro- test, on Oct. 23, signed the agreement and deposited a bond of $10,000 with the Netherlands Overseas Trust Co. A second protest has been filed with the state department by the Freighters’ Transportation Co., through the London correspondent of its New York lawyers, who also have taken the matter up with the Dutch government. The bark sailed from Rotterdam on her return trip on Noy. 2, carrying 1,500 tons FIG. 2—BOW OF THE RESURRECTED TRAMP WHICH FOUNDERED OFF THE FRENCH COAST 179 FIG. 3—MANGA REVA, REBUILT AND REFITTED, TAKING ON CARGO AT BALTIMORE