MARINE CASUALTIES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1415, 16 April 1912, Page 7

MARINE CASUALTIES.

SVHEAT VESSELS IN TROUBLE,

By Telegraph-Press Aesociation-Copyrieht

Adelaide, April 15. The Norwegian iron ship Songvnar, 2128 tons, ofter having completed the loading of 40,700 bags of wheat at Port Victoria, sank at her anchorage. It is supposed the struok an unknown obstacle whioh pierced her bottom. The water is level .with the deck. The crew escaped. The Norwegian barque Yuba (1488 tons), which left Port Victoria wheat laden on March 27, has returned to Adelaide. The vessel encountered a fierce hurricane, and tho cargo shifted. The Yuba has a dangerous list to port, her rail being under .water. It was expected 6he would founder, and the crew, at the height of the hurricane, by almost superhuman efforts, partially righted the cargo, and relieved the danger. It is not believed that the cargo is vriously damaged. CARGO OF EXPLOSIVES SHIFTS..: Brisbane, April 15. The Federal Steam Navigation Company's steamer Durham, 5501 tons, has arrived here. On the voyage the cargo, including a largo quantity of explosives, during a gale, shifted, and tho friction of BOine iron girders threatened to fire the magazines. There was an anxious time until the officers and some of the crew, working under perilous conditions, removed the danger. A STRANDED BAEQUB, Hobart, April 15. The Norwegian barque Farsund, which Was stranded at the northern end of Capo Barren Island at the beginning of last month, while bound in ballast from Buenos Ayres to Sydney, is settling in the sand, and all hope of refloating her ins been abandoned.