THE HARBOUR ENTRANCE.
Tlie accompanying rough sketch of Port Nicholson and the main entrance, at the eastern head of which the Devon went on the rodks, will serve to show the exact location of the wreck. In the ordinary course tlio Devon, in coming in from the East Coast, would pick up tlio Pencarrow light and continue on her course until she saw the Soines Island'light-, showing green down'through tlie harbour entrance. Sh'o would continue, oil her course in a westerly direction until Somes Island light showed white, when she would turn into the harbour entranco and make tlio port-. On Tuesday night, however, Pencarrow light appears to have been obscured by tho misty drizzle, and in cautiously making for tlie entrance at- a slow, speed the steamer must- have- been carried inshore by t-lie southerly gale, much further and faster than was anticipated. The result was that she struck the rocks just below the big lighthouse, and.right dead on to the low-level light. Another hundred or two hundred yards and she would have escaped tlio reef and made the entranco sal'elv. The Xon the plan' shows tho spot whoro tho Devon now lies stranded—a hopeless wreck.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1839, 27 August 1913, Page 8
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197THE HARBOUR ENTRANCE. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1839, 27 August 1913, Page 8
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