Wreck of the Ketch Fanny

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 102, 6 February 1886, Page 2

Wreck of the Ketch Fanny

FIVE PEBSONS PEOi^ED. [*«B UAITKD PBKSS AS&TO^AT«iir.] ■ ..." .; ■ ■ .:' Auck^N^ 5. ■'■ -The steamer McGi^gor : &n veid here at 3*45 .'this morningy'.'brinjMg^with her Captain Williams and the^crew of [the Auckland Kefem Fanny, totally lost onr Tuesday iiight n^ar Bream EDeadv Mrs TurnbUH, a passenger, and; her three children ""weie drowned. She. struck on a rock otf;^un .Head, about four miles frpM^ "WT^tngarei Head. A heavy sea was ruunfag, and the first sea that atruoku tfiet-Yeafiel carried away the foremast. .^Eheseas made a clean breach over the Teasel and with the hope of saving f He passengers they were lashed to itie miz-zen-mast, but seeing they "were in danger, they . were removed .to ike companion aft. Here all 'hands held on until about when two of the children died, and soon after that . the vessel broke in two and all-hands were washed sff. The ore w managed to get on part of the companion} the oaptaingetting on to a part of one of the masts. - They were washed on to a rock an«J remained all day until . j6^p.m. f when for safety they all got on to a piece of wreck and drifted to the mainland, three-quarters of a mile distant. They were all that Wednesday night in the bush and, on Thurg lay morning reached Whangarei Heads. Mrs lur^buU was the wife of the proprietor of the Settlers 1 hotel, Mongonui, and the children {girls) lost, were aged 18 months,, two years, and thirteen years. • ■■. •_-.' 2-..- /"■'. . ■•"