IN THE SAND'S GRIP

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1758, 24 May 1913, Page 6

IN THE SAND'S GRIP

ON OTAKI BEACH,

LOSS OF THE HYDERABAD.

THIRTY-FIVE MRS AGO.

TOLD BY ONE OF THE CREW,

It is thirty-five years ago on June 25 next since the clipper ship Hyderabad, 1357 tons, found her grave on Otaki beach. Thirty-five years is half a healthy man's lifetime, yet the greater part of tho steel shell of this vessel still lies on the sand. It shows a bold front to tho attacks of time and the warring elements.

Tho Hyderabad is' an example of the days when they made vessels to last. She was built at Portland, England, as a pleasure steam yacht for tho Maharajah of Hyderabad, and-was plated with inchsteel from stem to stern. After this long spell of years there are still living among provincial residents some who landed on tho beach over the sides of tho When she was wrecked tho Hyderabad was in charge of Captain Holmwood (now, and for many years) of Masterton). Captain Worrell, now master of the Union S.S. Company's palatial liner Maunganui, was the senior apprentice, and Mr. E. M. Griffiths, of R. M. Griffiths and Co., Customhouse agents, Victoria Street, was an A.B. It is the last-named member of the crew who yesterday related to a reporter the story of the wreck in Juno, '78.