STEAMER HUNK.
LOSS OF BREIZ HUEL. i By Teleerapli—Pre3» Association—Copyright Sydney, April 15. Advices have been received that the steamer Breiz Hue], a well-known Australian trader, was sunk in a collision with the steamer Tempest in Bristol Channel, whilo on route to Algiers, coal-laden. The crow was saved.
Tho Breiz nitol was a steel screw steamer of 4815 tons gross, built in ls'lo3, and owned, by a French Company, and was in Ahargo of Captain Audrain. She camo twice to Wellington, from New York, oil-lnden, and also touched at Australian ports and Auckland and Dunedin. A sister ship, tho Breiz Izel (now on her way from London to Wellington) had a startling oxjierienco at this port some years ago, being blown ashore in Evans Bay during a storm. Tho Breiz, Hue! also went, ashoro in Wellington on November 2G, 190G, and she was rot got off for two (lays. On April 9, 1908, tho steamer, whilst on a voyage from Dunkirk to New York had her rudder disabled, and drifted until April 18, when she was picked up by the steamer Tidra, and towed to Bermuda, al>out .180 miles distant. Bermuda was reached 011 April 27. In her salvage work tho Tidra lost fourteen days, and her owners wero awarded '<£7.100 for hor services.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1725, 16 April 1913, Page 7
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