WHEAT SHIP IN DISTRESS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 483, 16 April 1909, Page 6

WHEAT SHIP IN DISTRESS.

♦ • ] PUTS INTO LYTTELTON. ] ! , fax tslsquaph—miss absocutios.s .( 1 ■ . Chrlstohurdh, April 15. ' ' ' r^L barqu< s Camtußdoon, a British vessel ' of 1622 tons, laden with about 32,000 sacks of ' wheat, and bound from Sydney to Falmouth 3 for orders, put into Lyttelton last night in ' | distress. She left Sydney on March 27, and I met Tory heavy weather. On April- 7 she ] , again encountered bad weather, running into ( ' J , south-east gale lasting several. days. In ] , this the barque suffered a good deal, and in ! order to lighten her about 200 tone of grain j were thrown overboard. The master, Captain .' , nowos, then fonnd-the ship damaged to suoh 1 [ an extent as to render it inadvisable to pro- 3 j. ceed on his voyage, and made for Lyttolton. ' j. "^i on encountered a ] i terribly L dirt y night. The ship, .labouring under, short canvas, was chased by moun- > tainous seas during the early hours of Monday ' an i a ? ■, aoo J den t occurred after the second : mate had given orders, to square, the yards. . After this had;been done three sailors were < I coding i down ] the fore-braoes on top of the c I forward deckhouse/when a tremendous sea ' ' broke on board, filling the decks .jto the rails } i andv sweeping heavily over • the' , deckhouse 1 ■ washing one ..eeiman—a foreigner name & ::. The* man: was .never ' seen again. It -nas impossible .to render • him assistance: , ; . : .;...:,.,:;■ .: