Wreck of the Barque Emile
- — — -♦ ; IP9B VNTFBD PBESS ASSOCIATION. j ' Invbbcaboill, April 14. . News has been received late on Sat« • «rday of the wreck of the barque Emilie '. which left the Bluff on the 25th uit with * cargo of timber for Port Pirie, under -charter to Mr 3. G. Ward. The day after leaving, the vessel was struck by a.j -squall sind" thrown on her beam ends, ■Captain Small and seven men being: y^twisfeed overboard. The vessel drifted; into Doughboy Bay, Codfish Islands, 1 «outh ef Stewart Island, aad about forty ! miles from tiie Bluff. The Emilie was a barque of 729 tons. She was a Nwara- • vessel, and last from Melbourne. \ Site bad 461,570 ft timber on -board for: *he New. Zealand Pine Company, wnich -was insured for L 1350 in the New .Zea- i 4and and. Union offices in equal shares.
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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 126, 17 April 1890, Page 3
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