Fatal Accident at Sea.
Mr G. W. Owen and Mr Hill, Collector of Customs, have received telegrams from Mahurangi from Captain McLeod of the brigantine Ethel, stating that that vessel encountered a heavj N.E. gale on Monday off Wangarei, in the course of which she lost her foretopmast and one of her crew, a man named Baker, who was washed overboard. Our Wangarei correspondent on Monday telegraphed'that a gale from the N.E. was raging tbat morning, and we presume it was in this blow that the Ethel was caught The telegrams are very short, and merely announce tho casualties. The Ethel left here on Saturday morning for Wangaroa to load for Lyttelton. It will be recollected that she was out in the whole of the gales and bad weather experienced by the Queen of the South and the Mary King, when she sustained no damage whatever. The gale up North on Monday, which was not felt here, must, it appears from this, have been very severe. Biker was only engaged on Friday last, snd was formerly in the Golden Isle, schooner. The Ethel had put into Mahurangi.
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Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1694, 23 July 1875, Page 2
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187Fatal Accident at Sea. Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1694, 23 July 1875, Page 2
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