The Loss of the Gazelle.
(PEB PfiESH ASSOCIATION.) D on edin, February 5. The Gazelle was insured for £250 id the United office, and £1250 in the North Queensland, the latter being re -insured with the London Provincial and China Traders Company, .Nelson. February 5. There are two survivors of the Gazelle—William Davidson, mate and boatswain, who was washed ashore at Waikawa Bay, and Joseph A. Quintal, ordinary seaman. When the Gazelle sighted laud on Friday night a fearful gale was blowing, and at 3.30 on Saturday morning the vessel was close on to what must have been D'Urville Island, and shortly afterwards struck. Quintal jumped overboard and kept himself afloat till daybreak, when he got ashore. Davidson says the ship struck three times and broke in two. Ho then jumped , and with the aid of some wrackage drifted to Waikawa.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 232, 6 February 1894, Page 2
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