THE WRECKED SHIP.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 926, 20 September 1910, Page 5

THE WRECKED SHIP.

NO NEWS OF MISSING BOAT. . COLD, HUNGRY, AND EXHAUSTED. Oty Telegraph.—Special Correspondent.! Melbourne, September 19. There is no news of the Carnarvon Bay's missing boat. A steamer started yesterday to for it. It is feared that the Carnarvon Bay will become a total wreck. When the crew left her, her head was fast on tho rock, and she was bumping heavily, tearing her bottom. She carried 4000 tons of general cargo for Sydney. The captain believes the rock is an uncharted one. , The ship ran into tempestuous weather on September 1. Her cabin .doors were smashed, and seas swept the decks and did considerable damage. The bad weather continued till the vessel struck. Tho captain experienced difficulty in getting his bearings. He supposed he was a mile and a half from land at the time of the grounding. When the boats .were launched twcnlytwo persons clambered into the starboard one, while only seven went into the port boat. % Those in the latter refused to return for some time for fear of being crushed by the masts. "When the men did obey, the captain's orders, some of the starboard boat's crew were transferred to the port boat, leaving seventeen in the cap-, tain's boat. Otherwise bveryone behaved splendidly. The captain was especially cool. Those in the boats were in the scantiest of olothing. They had.a small supply of food and water, and a ; bottle or two of spirits. ' From the time of leaving the ship till the Tarcoola rescued them ' were driven about v by Ugh cross seas, and were kept constantly bailing.. They suffered from- cold and hunger. Some of the men were so exhausted that they lay sleeping in six inches of water at the bottom of the boat. ' ' ■ t ■ Two steamers passed without-noticing their distress signals. A pair of trouserß hoisted at' the 'masthead, brought the Tarcoola to their assistance. , (Eec. 'September 20, 0.40 a.m.) Melbourne, September 19. Tho search for the Carnarvon Bay's missing boat is being continued.

■'■-■■'. KING .ISLAND.".;; King- Island,, in Bass • Straits, where the Carnarvon, Bay- was wrecked, has become a rather busy place of -recent years, it;has a population of about 1300 people, arid its industries include buttermaking, '■ cattle-fattening, and mining.