Loss of the Patrician.
o — I Per Frees Association. I Dunedin, Sept. 8. The nautical enquiry into the circumstances connected with the abandonment of the ship Patrician whose crew were rescued by the Fifeshire, was held to-day before Mr Carew, S.M., and Captain Thomson, (Nautical Assessor). The evidence disclosed nothing new. The investigation as to the trimming of the cargo showed apparently that this had nothing to do with the foundering, which appears to have been due to a furious gale and a mountainous sea. Captain Sterling said he had been in cyclones in the Indian Ocean and typhoons in the China Sea, but he had never experienced such wayes. The crew had no complaints whateyer to make. That the rescue of the orew involved heroic work was made clear. The chief officer had only two in the boat. On one occasion a huge wave struck the Fifeshire's boat and carried it over the taffrail of the Patrician. The backwash swept id into the sea again. Had it touched it would have been smashed and all on board drowned. The Court reserved its decision.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 62, 10 September 1896, Page 2
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