WRECK OF A STEAMER
Wellington, November 2
The steamer Tui 55 ons. Captain Po< e, left Wa'tiugton wh»rf about midnight f .r Fusion having on boa'd the following Irving, Mi Scott, Mr J, L Cielland, and two others Abou one o’cl ck when the steamer wra off Pencarrow lighthouse she struck a reef, sinking in fine minutes, The passengers and crew suoeeded in getting ashore at the pilot station in two boats belonging to the steamer and were brought into town ut six this morning. Later. The Tui is valued at £35,000 and is uninsured Captain Pope sta ea ibrt the weather w’a very hszy at he tune and he wrs unable to see the light Ha is of opinion that tie bottom is 10. - n out of the vessel as she «ai geii g 10 knots when she struck and if such had not neen the case vtssei being built in comparnn.mts wou'd not have gone down. The Tui carried a crew of rixf The pas-euge B w th one exception, have lost everything. The wreck of the Tui is lying in Chaffers Passage in tho middle of the channel, and in a line between Barretts rotf and the moat seaward reef of Dorset point.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1396, 2 November 1886, Page 3
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206WRECK OF A STEAMER Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1396, 2 November 1886, Page 3
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