THE STEAMER TRIUMPH STUCK ON A ROCK.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3860, 30 November 1883, Page 3

THE STEAMER TRIUMPH STUCK ON A ROCK.

Auckland, This day.

Shaw Saville's direct steamer Triumph left for the South last fright, and was observed this morning hard and fast on Shoarc's rock, about a mile east of Tiri Tiri lighthouse, at the entrance to Hauraki Gulf, twenty miles from Auckland. The rock has two feet of water on it at low tide, is steep too, and is marked by a buoy anchored in fourteen fathoms of water. The Stella and other steamers have gone to render assistance.

Tlio steamer Triumph on the south-east side of Tiri, on the fairway for the lighthouse. She is on the rocks at the foremost tight compartment, and there is twelve feet of water in the compartment. It is supposed there is a hole through, but it cannot be ascertained yet. It is believed that she can be got off, having gone on four hours after ebb tide. There are seventeen fathoms of water astern, and the crew are now shifting the cargo aft in the hope that she will float. There is also seventeen feet of water abaft the fore rigging, so that she is hanging by her bow. It"was a clear night, though dark. The pilot left her outside Rangitotoat 9 o'clock, and gave the captain his course. The steamer was going eleven knots, and struck very heavily. No light can be thrown on the cause of the disaster, as the course should have taken her miles away from Tiri, and the lighthouse was right ahead of where she struck. The captain was on the bridgo at the time. Vessels have been chartered to go down and take off the cargo, which comprises a quantity of railway iron from London, and for the South fourteen bales of wool, etc. The Triumph is 1797 tons register, and was built in 1880.