Washed Overboard.

"When off the Falkland Islands we encountered a heavy gale. The heavy sea carried the second officer overboard at the fore-rigging and in the roll of the ship to leeward she "scooped" him in abaft the mizzen rigging with a broken arm.

"We lost an apprentice overboard, a Glasgow boy. During the storm we had lost a jib and between five and six p.m. when we went to bend on the new jib, the boy, who was 17 years of age, desired to go with the four able seamen. We endeavoured to dissuade him as it was dangerous work, but he pleaded so hard that his request was grunted. The five went out on to the jib-boom, the boypage 307 being in the centre. We had scarcely got on the jib-boom when the ship dived into a head sea, and when she came up the boy was missing."

The passages made by the Loch Dee were:—