Question.—You received certain moneys from a fund subscribed by the public? Answer.—Yes.
Q.—Do you know whether Messrs. Huddart, Parker and Co. contributed to that fund? A.—It was advertised in the newspapers that they contributed £100 to the fund, and from the £1200 subscribed by the public I received £25.
Q.—Did you have any bad weather on this particular voyage? A.—Not exceptionally bad.
Q.—Did you have a choppy sea,—mind I don’t mean a sea cook’s chops? (Laughter.) A.—Yes, we had some choppy seas.
Q.—Was it blowing a gale? A.—Not before we reached the Schanck.
Q.—Do you know how many miles you went from seven o’clock till four? A.—About nine or ten knots an hour.
Q.—At three o’clock you were two miles east of the Schanck? A.—Yes; and at four o’clock we were six or seven miles to windward of the Schanck.
Q.—You were going out to sea from two miles until the time you foundered? A.—No; we were making for the Heads when she went down.
Q.—How do you know when the vessel foundered? A.—When I got back to the ship, after being washed overboard the first time, I found on examining my pockets that the water had stopped my watch at five minutes past four, and I estimate that she sank about twenty minutes after that. (At counsel’s request the witness here handed the watch over, and its rusty works—together with the time its dial indicated—were evidently examined with much interest.)
Q.—Up to the time you were two miles east of the Schanck, did the vessel ship any water. A.—Only spray. There was no heavy sea. The wind kept increasing as we went along. It was a fresh, but not a heavy gale.