CAPTAIN WASHED OVERBOARD.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 912, 3 September 1910, Page 4

CAPTAIN WASHED OVERBOARD.

STORMY AND EVENTFUL VOYA'GE. -/ j(By Telegraph-Pmsb Association.').: V : ..! . ".'■ :.:'■ - Dunedin, September 2. v ■ The Italian ship -Bceeoft, which left Marseilles on' April? for Bluff, Dune'din," and Lyttelton,,witli'B2q,ooo roofing,tiles and-624 crates of flooring tiles, arrived: to r day after a stormy ■ and ■■■ eventful passage of 154 day's..; The ship .cameinto port under, command of Giovanni .Obyari, the first mate, who reports that during a severe.' storm;•;on the liight of "August- 3, when, the ship was-., near ,Cape-,Leeuwini Captain Pellegro Ferrari, aged 32. was overboard.■-■■and never;seen.again.' .'At/the'time':of';the accident the ship was running under the main lower topsail'before a heavy gale, accompanied ■by snow•: and:- hail, with a big following sea; Captain ..Ferrari \vas standing./ on the// poop,/.when /a mountainous sea broke-on board and washed him;away. : Two men who were at'- the .wheel ..were' washed forward on to,, the/niain deck. -'The compass; /went overboard, and..the ship's, boats"- ; were, smashed and carried away. iThe'nigtt was very dark. .Prior to'the loss 1 of the captain" another : death ; occurred on. board. Shortly after leaving Marseilles a sailor, named Skjelmj-.a jNprwegian, ■ aged'2o,died,. the supposed 'cause; being■ heart disease.:v ..'■'.. /;,'■<;"/.•///■; ' '..!■■: //, ; .;--:\- 'i? ■