Shipping Accident
: •— — -i~-V-i ;-' 1JL ' ■')■*;'■-• The steamer Triumph, 1,767 tons, which left Auckland for' the Soqtjii, on Thursday night last, struck on the soutli east side of Tiritiri, on the fairway of the lißhthouse. There are 12 feet of water in her foremost watertight compartment. Cargo is now being shifted aft in order that she may float off. The steamer was . : going eleven knots when she struck: The captain was on the bridge at the time. ' No light has been thrown on the cause oiT. the disaster, as her ctfnrse .iiho.nld hav«^ taken her miles clear of the island.
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 77, 1 December 1883, Page 2
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98Shipping Accident Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 77, 1 December 1883, Page 2
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