A STORMY VOYAGE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 522, 1 June 1909, Page 9

A STORMY VOYAGE.

DEATH ROLL OF'SEVEN. (bt xti.samrn.—sr eci ai. correspondent.) , • ' ... ~ Auckland, May 31. ■ on\ br !? f u ?- roe ® sa E8 received on May U Dy the oydney Marine Underwriters' and f al ™£o Association,.' Ltd.,. intimating that the Dutch ship Nederland, which Bailed from ij_ I„°"r no 011 Marelv 23. with a cargo of . 3q.200 .bag 3 of wheat .for the English Channel for orders, had mot with violent weather coiKhtibns, ana had put into Coquimbo 'in distress. During tho height of the gales, tho message added,': Captain H. Sparius.' the master of the Vossel>.was.washed overboard, and shortly; afterwards the second officer mot With a similar fate. Tho members of tho crew worked manfully'throughout tho trying ordeal, but no fewer than five of them ' were lost' 'different.times,' making a death-roll of soren; Tho vessel was navigated by the chief officer, who decided' to , mnko : for the' nearest port; for repairs and to ship addi- ' tional meu. The Nederland had been driven : by. a succession of tempests considerably oxlt ■ of . hor course, arid Coquimbd, -in Chile, was reached on May 21, Tho extent of the damage done}" 1 lias riot yet been ascertained, and it is not known whether the' grain cargo suf-. fered. 111-luck seems to bo following tho Nederland; She. made-a very long voyago to > Melbourno from Trcdrikstadt, in J\lcrway, and • for' some ; weel»a grave fears: wore entertained regarding her. Eventually on January 2'lr last, •when she had. been at Bea for. lil/ days,. the •' Nederland made 'her appearance i" off Port Philip Heads, and it was asceri tained that her long voyago was. duo erif tirely tp adverse winds in the earlier stages. Attempting to come through the English ' Channel'the ship ;_was confronted with. such i persistent head winds that her course was • altered to take hor round tho'. North ' of I Scotland. - Tho Nederland is a steel ship of , 2031 tons, urosa and of 1056 tons not. ,