BARQUE WRECKED.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1170, 4 July 1911, Page 5

BARQUE WRECKED.

WESTPORT COAL VESSEL LOST By Telegraph—Press Assoniatlon — Oopyrictal (Ree. July 3, 9.40 p.m.) Sydney, July 3. Tho Norwegian barque Hjordis, formerly the Nairnshire, an iron vessel of 1027 tons, built in 1870, bound from Wostport to Ponano with thirteen hundred tens of coal nboard, was driven ashore on a reef off the Island of Pouape, in the Carolines, on June 3. Within two hours the vessel was a complete wreck. The captain and crew, totalling fourteen men, were saved. The Hjordis had made a record passage of thirty-one days. There was no pilot or tug to assist her through the dangerous passage at the island, and as she was entering the wind fell and the current set her ashore. * Tho wind, however, soon sprang up and bumped the bottom out of the vessel. Next day she almost capsized, and was then abandoned. The crew waited at Poaape eight days before they were picked un by the steamer Germania and brought to Sydney. The captain states that he waited outside the harbour at the island for two days signalling for a tug, as he did not c-aro to enter owing to tho proximity of numerous reefs. A whalekoat from the island then informed him that he would have to negotiate the passage by himseslf.