about five o'clock in the morning
and 72 ° 15 ' long. , struck on her starboard quarter a rock , marked in no chart for that part of the sea . Under the combined efforts of the wind and its four hundred horse power , it was going at the rate of thirteen knots . Had it not been for the superior strength of the hull of the Moravian , she would have been broken by the shock and gone down with the 237 passengers she was bringing home from Canada . The accident happened about five o'clock in the morning , as the day was breaking . The officers of the quarter-deck hurried to the after-part of the vessel . They examined the sea with the most careful attention . They saw nothing but a strong eddy about three cables ' length distant , as if the surface had been violently agitated .