SCHOONER IN A STORM.—MAN WASHED OVERBOARD.
New Plymouth", This day. • The schooner Waireka, which arrived here from Sydney for Waitara, on May,l3, but, owing:' to bad. weather, had to put to sea, turned ,up yesterday. Last Wednesday she encountered a heavy gale, and was hove-to under reefed mainsail. In heaving the vessel when before the wind she shipped several heavy seas. The wheel being lashed, all hands took to the rigging, except Henry "Wade, an ordinary seaman, 1 who was washed overboard. There being a heavy. sea running, and the vessel almost unmanagable, .nothing could possibly be done to save him, although the poor fellow waa Boeu swimming for about ten minutes,
when he was lost sight of. One heavy sea shifted part of her cargo to the starboard, and carried away everything on deck.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4007, 26 May 1884, Page 3
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