On the Avoidance of Cyclones. 207 
Ua U. 8. Ship Vincennes, Port Lloyd, 
nin Islands, Oct. 27th, 1854. 
ad the water, and bar. still tee rapidly. Fearing the ee would founder, cut away 
and mizzen topmasts; but that being insufficient to right the vessel, cut away 
the fore topmast. The vessel then righted a little, the Sine! still blowing with fearful 
with 
. Nee and increasing en pmast now went over the side, taking with it 
a the head of the mainmast, I ediately after this it fell a fla , the barometer 
b down to 27-70. Got the wreck of main topmast cut away from along side, as well 
i te as that of i 
of the foremast which hung to windw: ew 
N.W,, veering to w d southwest, blowing with tenfold violence. The lee 
e with everything moveable abo , th up to the comb- 
ings of the main hatch e star side of forecastle washed 0 also 
boi 
board poop cabin. At 8.465 p.m. shi 
. p righting a little, rigged two pumps and pumped 
her dry. At 6 p, a. the fury of the typhoon moderated and barometer commenced 
: ie 
frasts, May 22d [nautical time] lat. 15° N., lon, 112010’ E. At 8 v.2. [21st, true 
fine] we Weather moderated, Sea going down and barometer rising. Wind south and 
Seino ROWE'S REMARKS 0: ve TypHoon.—The evening of Friday the 19th 
* May-[civil time], the weat eve r rs ye hseaaaeinc. but nothing gave reason 
°F suspecting the vicinity of a typhoon, {?] The clouds had a dirty red appear- 
in: the quickly repeated flashes of lightening and the distant moaning of the 
ho Ppearing up to the time of the commencement of the | a 
wever was very rapid, and in all of a twenty years experience (éleven in com- 
mand) I never _saw the mercury so low in the tube by an inch. Dr lull, 
meter, 
N.E.; stood 
re N.E, whence Pe condita steady till we cut away the masts; then it 
y subsided in ato a calm, which continued for half an hour; then, without a mo- 
gradual rwards to sou! 
throughout va very oe Pad not no essel been oe to on . port tack, as 
ie directs, when the san Shifted after the lull, the vessel must certainly 
Ye gone down stern foremost; as it was, the gust ba orld he ole, ie 
came up to the wind and so lay in safety during the remainder of the cyclone. 
ben oTm The ‘interests of n sees Sen it to be stated, that on the ors 
~ ore the disaster Capt. Crowe —— state of the barometer the 
dreton of the wind, ace pear show that re by in the southeast was 
: then crossing his path. Had time, or aber sag 
‘o on the starboard a 4 or ake “gheptas naga p 
tbe the wind should 
his commenced rising, he would have —, no dam: at 
course under the w unchanging northeasterly and falling Rone E 
rely iat te eat af the eylone, as han tooo n been 
°eyclone, and was'thus able to escape its force without s dacegieee 
Ne spends he look rand ofthe 3 ohn Hancock, from which it appears that 
