ADELAIDE.
Jaanuary 8
The Orient Company's steamship Chimborazo, bound from Plymouth to this port, has gone ashore in Backstairs Passage, in the Gulf of St. Vincent. She lies in seventeen feet of water, and it will require twenty-seven to float her. The passengers are landing ou the coast. January 10. The Chimborazo has gone ashore at the south-east point of Troubridge Shoal. Her grounding is attributed to a thick haze off coast. It is expected that she will be able to float to-day. Later. The Chimborazo was successfully floated this morning without injury, and has proceeded to Melbourne.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 2977, 10 January 1881, Page 3
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