The "Carnegie's" End

Not since 1889. when a tidal wave swashed shipping against the wooded mountains, has Apia Harbor. Samoan Islands, been so aghast as last week. Although it was a damp, warm day of Capricorn summer, a breeze rumpled the thick greenery around Apia. At anchor rode the brigantine-rigged wooden yacht Carnegie. Built in 1909 to study all the things that the Carnegie Institute thinks man should know about the sea, the Carnegie was made a unique ship: not an ounce of magnetic material in her hull or aboard her. Even her 150-h. p. auxiliary motor was built of nonmagnetic stuff.

Idly she rode, her 12,900 ft. of sail furled. The crew were going leisurely through the routine chores of a ship in port. On the quarter deck was James Percy Ault, master of arts, magnetician, the Carnegie's commander in all the oceans for the past 13 years. He was overseeing the storage of a load of gasoline.

The calm of Apia was suddenly burst and rocked by an explosion within the Carnegie. Commander Ault was hurled past the masts, into the sea, dead. The Carnegie took fire, burned herself and five nearby ships beyond salvage.

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