There are ships that, like certain people, seem created for an
unusual and distinguishing destiny, and are unable long to survive
the destruction of those peculiar conditions that have given them
their dominating qualities, animation and color. Mr. Francis Dickie of
Vancouver, B. C., has described with a vivid pen the
later adventures and slow foundering of the _Casco_.
This gentleman has kindly given me permission to reprint it here. Our
sympathy goes out to the beautiful yacht in her lonely buffetings and
chill decay, but though stricken and vanished, we know that she will
live long in romance and in song as "The Silver Ship."