The Nightingale
THE MISSING CREW SAFE. (m UKITBP PBEM ABMCIiTIOS.*I Avcklutd, May 20. The Arawata, which arrived f rein Fiji this morning, brings news of th« safety «f the missing erewof the brigaatine Night* ingale. On the 9th instant the barque Bemigio, bound from Newcastle to San Fraaeiseo with a cargo of coal, put in at Levuka, having on beard Caotaia Short and the missing uea, whe had beea picked up in an open boat at sea. Aeordtng to the statement of the mate of the vessel she became waterlogged on the 19th of April, and the crew, eleven in number, took te the boat on the 2oth. After going about two miles, five of the crew considered the boat overloaded, and returned to the ship. The boat experienced fair weather till the 26th of April, when the sails of the Bemieio were descried, and that vessel picked up the castaways. On the following daj there was a terrific gale, which would have swamped the boat.
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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 144, 21 May 1885, Page 2
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166The Nightingale Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 144, 21 May 1885, Page 2
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