LOST AT SEA.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 706, 4 January 1910, Page 5

LOST AT SEA.

STEAMER SUNK: TWELVE LASCARS DROWNED. \ NARROW ESCVPE OP PVSSENGER SHIP. By Telcgraph-Prcss Association-Copyrlnht (Rec. January 3, 9.5 p.m.) London, January 3. Duruig a dense fog yostoiday the Ellermari liner Aicadian, from London to Glasgow and Basin, collided with tho Houlder liner Ajrshire, from Manchester to Durban and Australia. Tho collision occurred off the Tuscar Rock, Ireland, and the Arcadian foundered in threo minutes. Of her crew of 52 Lascars, 12, who wont bolon to secure their money, perished. The remaindei wero picked up by tho Ayrshire The latter received a crashing blow forward, and commenced to fill.' She was lowed, with hor 200 passengers, to a harbour of refuge at Holyhead (North Wales), where she was safely beached I Tho passengers behaved well, and there was no panic. The Ayrshire's No. 1 hold I was flooded.

TWELVE LIVES LOST. 1 ' i BRITISH STEAMER ON AMERICAN COAST. , t (Rec. January 3, 10 55 p.m.) New York, January 3. The mate and eleven seamen of a British steamer were lost m a storm off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina (U.S.) Tho remainder of the crew weie rescuod. YACHT'S CREW OF FOUR MISSING. BOAT WASHED ASHORE. Hobart, January 3. The small yacht Ayesha has been washed ashore at Lovy Head, forty miles north-west of Luunceston. The yacht left TJlverstone 'for a day's fishing. ; ' Tho crew of four—Vince (the owner), Welsh, Jack, and Inglis—all young men, are missing.- • ' , _ /

papanui struck an uncharted rVck. in the direct route op ships. )[ Hobarf, January 3. An uncharted rock has been discovered whore tho New Zealand Shipping Company's liner Papanui struck a fortnight ago. , . The rock is covered .with 10 feet of water, and is four and a half miles off Waterhouse Island. It is wonderful that no accident had occurred at the rock before, as it waa in tho direct routs of vessels.

A SAILING BOAT OVERTURNS. ONE MAN DROWNED. ' Brisbane, January 3. A sailing boat ovei turned off Peel Is land on Fudny morning. The crew of four men clung to the bottom of the boat, .vliioh dufted for eighteen hours. Three of tho men were landed in a very exhausted state. Tho fourth, named Pcttorson, was drowned after clinging to the boat for fourteen hours.