DISASTROUS CYCLONE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1434, 17 December 1886, Page 3

DISASTROUS CYCLONE

Auckland, December 16. Information haa t een received of the loos of tt o ship Nerbudda, with all bands. She will be re.i etnbered aa having visited this port about, eiuht months ago, when she gained notoriety owing to a Court case, in which Captain Caid-r, the master, and his Lascar crew fiau ed, and which was settled by some of the men being sent to Calcutta by another vessel. On arrival In London Cspta'n Calder left the vessel and Captain James Taylor tok ch-rgt*. She had losd d coal at Cardiff for Bombay, and sailed from there in October, the same day as the ill-fated Teviotdsle, Bunny, Glos, Malleuy, and a who’e fleet of fine ships, wh.ch almost without exception succumbed to a cyclone that met them that night Naturally, in view of the gale and its results, much anxiety was felt for the Nerbudd*. and consequently Mrs Taylor, the Captain’s wife, received Intimation from the owners that wreckage had come ashore which left no doubt that the ship had gone down with all hands Captain Taylor had with him aa carpenter of the ship his nephew, a lad named Wm King, who also lived at Peterhead with his widowed mother, h ! s fattier having been a’so lost at sea some years ago The rest of the crow comprised twenty-seven Lascars and twelve Europeans, these being mostly Englishmen. The Nerbudda was an iron vessel of 1600 tons net register, five years old, and insured.